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  • RE: Switching to MySQL or SQL Server Express: What is best for an ISV?

    For SQL2008 there is a web edition that is licensed to 4 CPUs. It sits somewhere between SQL Express and Standard Edition but with considerably cheaper licensing.

    Having just gone...

  • RE: Save as in Toad

    I.m using SQL2008 so the exact option may differ to mine.

    In SQL Management Studio from the tools/options menu look for the "query results" branch on the left hand side.

    In results...

  • RE: Giving Your Best

    One of Scott Adam's Dilbert cartoons is about an employees "numbing". This is when the employee realises that he/she is not appreciated, he/she is simply expected to be a...

  • RE: Do You Need an IT or CS Degree to be a Successful DBA?

    I haven't got a degree.

    I fell into becoming a DBA through an interest in statistics in relation to predicting future customer behaviour from past behaviour.

  • RE: SQL Injection?

    Personally I would set up an explicit Domain SQLAdmin group with very tightly controlled membership.

    Make this group a sysadmin and get rid of NTAuthority/System.

    You need to make sure that the...

  • RE: Error: 17187, Severity: 16, State: 1.

    How many people have you got trying to connect to your instance?

    What edition of SQL Server are you running?

    What is the licensing model for your SQL Server. Is it per...

  • RE: Error: 17187, Severity: 16, State: 1.

    17187 means that SQL Server cannot accept anymore client connections. There was a fix in SP2 as SQL Server was sometimes overzealous in issuing this command.

    18456 is a "login...

  • RE: Delete trigger - history table schema

    Because of my auditing needs I have a structure that is something like the following

    UserID

    VersionNumber

    UserName

    ... additional fields to identify who did what and when.

    The primary key is across the first...

  • RE: ER Diagram ---> from production DB

    Even bog standard Visio Professional will reverse engineer. It is the enterprise architect edition that forward engineers.

    You could look at Sparx Data Architect as a possible tool or Erwin.

  • RE: Adding ID columns to tables for primary key

    In data warehousing solutions the recommendation (Ralph Kimball) is to have a single field surrogate key.

    In OLTP solutions I think it depends on how static the data is.

    In my case...

  • RE: How to write this SELECT better

    As a matter of interest why do you allow the tblUsers table to have NULL values.

    Why not put a DEFAULT constraint with an empty string on them. It would...

  • RE: Do DBAs Still Read Techincal Books?

    The last books I bought were Klaus Aschenbrenner's Pro SQL Server 2005 Service Broker and the MCTIP training courses for SQL2008.

    The problem is that books are relatively expensive door stops...

  • RE: Deploying Scripts with SQLCMD

    kuldip.bhatt (3/24/2009)


    how i give the usrename and password in the sql command?

    :setvar Maindbserver "NHSserver"

    :setvar Maindb "NHS_031209"

    :Connect $(Maindbserver)

    go

    $ maindb

    :connect $(Maindbserver) -U YourUserName -P YourPassword

    Personally I would avoid SQL standard...

  • RE: Letting People Go Securely

    Back in the early 1990s I got made redundant on my birthday. Of course they waited until after lunch when I had bought the cakes that employees are supposed...

  • RE: Poor Man's Partitioning in MSSQL 2005 Std Ed.

    In addition to the above I would look at putting the tables on separate file groups and possibly separating out the indexes from the data.

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