Oh god, not another bunfight. My last post started a row between two MVPs.

The reason I haven't dreamt up anything properly evil is because my company isn't paying market rate...

Hear hear!

We're all guilty of asking idiotic questions from time to time but not to know the basic fundamentals of your job, then lying about it on CVs? Too...

Has DBCC SHRINKDATABASE been run since? Or any DELETEs from the database? Has the tx log shrunk? Various reasons for this, it's normal tbh.

It must be nice to...

Lynn - 4 seconds on my ageing kit - thanks very much!

Howard - was not knocking your effort (would be a bit rich considering my approach wasn't set based!) but...

Mike - I corrected the WITH to ;WITH and it ran beautifully - 28 seconds. Many thanks.

Lynn - trying yours now 🙂 The more practice I get with...

Howard

Here's the example code I ran:

CREATE TABLE numbers ( N INT)

DECLARE @loopCounter INT -- yes, I know 🙂

SET @loopCounter = 1

WHILE @loopCounter < 10001

BEGIN

INSERT INTO numbers...

Howard, your approach is good but populates the table with only the first database name returned by SELECT name FROM sys.databases. It produces all the rows, but they are...

Thanks both, I'll read the tally tables article and give both solutions a try.

Another approach would be bcp and export to a .csv file, then use the CDO functionality available in VBScript (put in a batch file envelope) to handle the e-mail.

I have...

The point-and-click method for doing this is to set up a Maintenance Plan in SQL Server Management Studio. Open the tree view under Management until you see Maintenance Plans....

I agree with the points in this editorial, there's a lot of resistance from some jaded IT staff about improving their processes and tools, in case they 'do themselves out...

If latency is an issue have you tried extending the timeout period of the mirroring setup? ALTER DATABASE <mydb> SET PARTNER TIMEOUT <int>. Max int value can be...

Good question, caught me out! As one of the other posters said, I was railroaded by BEGIN TRANSACTION - thought the entire batch would be rolled back - apparently...

Sorry for the delay in replying, I've just tested the command I posted and I get the same problem as you - the query hangs.

Should have mentioned I had to...

Agreed, BOL will answer this for you.

However...

CREATE TABLE firstTable (uid INT, data VARCHAR(3) )

CREATE TABLE secondTable (uid INT, data VARCHAR(3) )

INSERT INTO firstTable VALUES...