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  • RE: Best method for Delete Procedures

    I take it you have some performance problems?

    If your staging and production database are on the same box then I would use one of the methods you mention.

    If the two...

  • RE: Keeping QA Up To Date

    We have just had our first contract tester and I have to say that it has been a very positive experience.

    Our QA environment highlighted the need for a change in...

  • RE: SA without a password - Whats so bad about this?

    If you can login to one server with the SA password then you can hack into any other SQL Server on the network.

    Try sp_addlinkedserver!

    Because SA always has id 1 you...

  • RE: Best way of using the FTP action?

    In the majority of cases it works.  In the past year it has failed 15 times on scheduled runs.

    It is more the fact that I cannot get any diagnostic information...

  • RE: DB Design Question

    NORMALISATION

    Normalise when it is practical to do so.  If you have a sales by day of week arrangement then there would be little point in normalising it down to a...

  • RE: Procedure Hit Rate

    Why not use SQL profiler?

  • RE: Best way of using the FTP action?

    If the DTS hangs when running within Enterprise Manager then because the display is modal I cannot get to the current activity.

    Taskmanager shows 100% CPU utilisation with the sqlserv process...

  • RE: Best way of using the FTP action?

    Basically I created the DTS package using the export data wizard then changed all the "CREATE TABLE" SQL tasks to "DELETE FROM" tasks.

    There are twelve database tables.  The wizard creates...

  • RE: Question of the Day for 12 May 2004

    Try updating dtproperties.

    If you have the "allow changes to system tables" disabled then, if it is truly a system table, it should give an error message.

    It doesn't so it isn't.

  • RE: Question of the Day for 12 May 2004

    BOL says that xtype='U' or type='U' means user table.

    The fact that dtProperties is conceptually a system table even though it marked as a user table is neither here nor there.

    It...

  • RE: Question of the Day for 12 May 2004

    I think the dtproperties table thing is a bug in SQL Server because it is flagged internally as a user table.

    To get around it you have to add and OBJECTPROPERTY(id,'IsMSShipped')=0...

  • RE: Question of the Day for 12 May 2004

    I use something similar when assigning rights to stored procedures, but without the cursor.

    I know that this is only an example question but for the scenario listed

    a) I would probably...

  • RE: How do you test a database ?

    There are several sorts of test.

    • Does the database do what it says it should do in the functional requirement spec.
    • Bounds testing.  What happens if I try and enter silly values...
  • RE: status&64=64 ???

    It is a BIT field test.

    • BIT 1 = 1
    • BIT 2 = 2
    • BIT 3 = 4
    • BIT 4 = 8
    • BIT 5 = 16
    • BIT 6 = 32
    • BIT 7 = 64

    The & means BIT...

  • RE: SQL Server Needs Incremental Updates

    I would be curious to know where Sybase ranks along side SQL Server, ORACLE, DB2 etc.

    I have colleagues who are using Sybase on a particular project and because both SQL...

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