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  • RE: Xcopy in SQL

    It is worth looking at the help text for XCOPY because there are a number of switches that are extremely useful.

    I have to copy across a backup file from one...

  • RE: Access to SQL Server: Linking Tables

    I notice that you are using DAO.

    I last touched MS Access 6 years ago and at the time Microsoft were pushing ADOX as the way to manipulate MS Access objects...

  • RE: Aye Yi Yi

    In the UK we are bombarded with adverts for shredders at £xx.xx and everyone is looking at them and thinking "hmmm... that is pretty good value".

    Call me a...

  • RE: More than one instance on a server?

    I think that this subject is worth an article if anyone is prepared to write it.

    Scenarios, Pros, Cons, Gotchas etc.

  • RE: SQL Server 2000 Max database size

    According to books on line it is 1,048,516 TB.

    It does say that the maximum size of any one file in the database can be 32TB and that the maximum number...

  • RE: Shrinking Databases

    I am pretty sure that shrinking the database requires an exclusive lock on the database so if anyone access the database the shrink will fail.

  • RE: Is this a duplicate index?

    Looking at index 3.

    If you search for records with just an ACCT_DT field in the WHERE clause the index will be used.

    If you search for records based on ACCT_DT and...

  • RE: Invalid indexes in sysindexes

    Sysindexes holds more than just indexes. If you see entries such as _wa_sys_etc then these are system generated statistics.

    Similarly, if you have generated manual statistics then these will also...

  • RE: Database Cloning?

    I have two database servers where the logins have been transferred so they both have the same sid values.

    This means that I can simply do an automated BACKUP and RESTORE...

  • RE: Stored Procedure problem ??

    Do you have a clustered index on the table and if so on what column(s)?

    How many indices are there on your table? Do you really need them?

    It is always...

  • RE: Why Be an MCP?

    Old cynic filter input = "Young, fresh, enthusiastic"

    Old cynic filter output = "Naive, unjaundiced and cheap"

    Yes you should have employed them

  • RE: Technological evangelists

    Anyone remember Z80 and 6502 Assembly Language?

  • RE: Technological evangelists

    I cleaned out my attic the other day and came across some college notes.

    One of the lecturers had written "with the simplicity and ease of use of CP/M it is...

  • RE: Why Be an MCP?

    Ah 1966, yes indeed. I was conceived during the celebrations!

  • RE: Why Be an MCP?

    When I did the original SQL 6.5 courses the person taking the course warned us that the exams had some answers that had to be answered a particular way and...

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