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  • RE: Missing Identity Numbers

    The solution to this problem depends on why (or if) the rowset displayed to users really needs to contain a list of sequential numbers. Attempting to maintain the sequential integrity...

  • RE: please help us to improve this query performance level without affecting the existing functionality

    For a handful of reasons, besides performance, it's best not to return all columns from a table using * but rather to specify only the minimum columns your application or...

  • RE: SQLSERVER linked server

    Shelley Allen (6/3/2015)


    I fixed this. When creating a linked server in 2012 to another SQLSERVER you need to click 'SQL Server' under Server Type on the General Tab

    Shelley

    So when...

  • RE: SQLSERVER linked server

    Membership in SYSADMIN on the 2008 server is not necessarily required. Having the DBA on the 2008 server grant your remote login "VIEW ANY DATABASE" permission will allow you to...

  • RE: Access SQL instance without sa password

    If it were me, and we're talking about a local developer instance, then I'd just uninstall SQL Server 2012, and then re-install SQL Server 2014. It will support all the...

  • RE: Trying to learn SQL - Advice

    Your first priority should be to learn whatever tasks will help make you more useful in your current job, which you said is monitoring servers, and then expand outward. I'm...

  • RE: Sort Order Value

    yusufm 48726 (6/3/2015)


    Sure I have attached it. This one looks ok but sometimes it gives me wrong value in between.

    I was assuming that your DateEntered column contained MMDD coded as...

  • RE: Sort Order Value

    J Livingston SQL (6/3/2015)


    what does Order By Value DESC give you?

    LOL! Havn't had this morning's coffee yet? 😉

  • RE: Sort Order Value

    Are these the actual values in the 'DateEntered' column you're attempting to order by?

    1022

    987

    876

    870

    950

    690

    580

    These arn't date values, they are integers. So, I'm assuming that Jan 1 would be coded as...

  • RE: What Not To Say

    Dave62 (6/3/2015)


    Company X has offered me $yyyyy. Will you match it?

    ... "No one wants to be put in a corner, and I would be likely to let you move on...

  • RE: Your Job

    Of course, you could always use EF and LINQ to code once and "level the playing field" for the various RDBMS platforms.

    :rolleyes:

  • RE: DBCC InputBuffer Permissions

    It's good to remind folks that privillages, even for more advanced things like operating backups or running performance tuning queries, can be granted piecemeal without adding the login to SYSADMIN...

  • RE: Finding Production Drift

    When starting working on a modification to a stored procedure, I start by comparing what's in production to the latest in the production branch of the source code repository. They...

  • RE: Few Qs On SQL Server 2016

    So we're talking v2016 now; it's hard for me to believe that our DW is three releases behind already. SQL Server v2008 may end up being the most extant version...

  • RE: Your Job

    TomThomson (6/1/2015)


    GoofyGuy (6/1/2015)


    That happy situation probably applies only to database developers in companies who are developing databases for in-house use only.

    Indeed, as Mr Russell explained to me already (twice).

    😉

    Well,...

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