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  • RE: Bulk Insert ....

    You can also give your user DDLADMIN authority in TempDB. This will allow a user with only Bulkadmin authority to BCP (etc) into a temporary table.

    You then have the...

  • RE: QOD 30 Sep 2003

    Looks like Measure Up points are best.

    Working on the principle in the documentation that SQL7 can receive replicated data from SQL2K, but SQL2K cannot receive replicated data from SQL7, then...

  • RE: Linked Server to DB2

    You almost certainly need the DB2 ODBC driver. These are free in the DB2 install media. You will get better performance if you use a product called 'DB2...

  • RE: Help!!! Backup problem??

    A slightly OT comment on NTFS compression, at least on NT4...

    If you copy a file over 2GB over the network to a NTFS compressed folder it is VERY...

  • RE: Raid performance

    I agree that while defrag is running, performance may be bad. This could be a reason to not use auto-defrag products. However, if you run the defrag in...

  • RE: Raid performance

    I may be missing something... why do you think that Windows defrag will be a problem with RAID arrays

    All information provided is a personal opinion that may not match reality.

  • RE: Raid performance

    Hopefully some answers to your questions...

    a) Any type of disk storage can be fragmented. Fragmentation is a mainly a function of the file system, not the disk. Bad...

  • RE: SQL2000 on 'card' on IBM AS400

    The card is really designed to allow Windows-based applications access AS400 resources, especially the DB2 database.

    I would echo the opinion that if you want to ignore AS400 resources and just...

  • RE: Help!!! Backup problem??

    The key may be the "Operating system error 33(The process cannot access the file because

    another process has locked a portion of the file.)." message.

    It would be worthwhile to check...

  • RE: Indexes

    There are significant reasons for the difference in performance of the following code:

    a) WHERE (CodArticolo = @CodArticolo OR @CodArticolo IS NULL)

    b) WHERE CodArticolo = CASE WHEN @CodArticolo IS NULL THEN...

  • RE: Nested subqueries

    I would go for something similar to that given by brokenrulz:

    SELECT

    o.customerID

    ,SUM(CASE WHEN o.orderdate < '1997-01-01' THEN 1 ELSE 0 END) AS data_1996

    ,SUM(CASE WHEN o.orderdate >= '1997-01-01'...

  • RE: Memory usage

    You will need W2K Advanced Server to access over 2GB of memory.

    In W2K normal server, it will not object if you use /3GB, etc, but will not give you any...

  • RE: Hotfixing MSDE and MDAC

    You should treat MSDE the same as SQL Server as far as fix levels, security setup, etc is concerned. There are many hacks out there that allow you to...

  • RE: Tempdb giving up

    The following link may be interesting: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb%3Ben-us%3B328551

    It looks like you can get some blocking within TempDB if TempDB has a lot of pressure from heavy workfile and/or temporary table create...

  • RE: How many records can SQL Server handle?

    Quote: "The maximum (theoretical) size of a database is 1,048,516 TB, and not a single terrabyte as earlier suggested."

    Don't forget you can have up to 32768 databases per server. ...

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