It is advisable that you identify the correct mapping for the oracle types and apply those instead.

Oracle is has its own way of dealing with datatypes and that...

How are you copying from the big table to the partition table?

As I said on my comment -- this is better done using SSIS or a small C#...

Discipline is in my opinion the most important thing on working from home.

Those that tend to get distracted with things going on in their house, or that, for...

why don't you try it out?

Something like this.

use databasename -- this script should run against required database

-- these two should be set as required
declare @shrink_target int = 10000 -- adapt as required...

Its a choice, but paying for SQL Server just to use SSIS is not what I would consider a good choice.
Without even considering some of the free ETL tools...

before you implement this make sure you understand all the implication of using partitioning.

It is not easy to implement, and can lead to performance problems.

the sample...

Tom,

Yes its never clear cut - but on this case we are talking about using a particular piece of software (Sql Server Developer) to access a production server,...

I'm not going to ask if that is the right choice or why you are doing it - others will most likely do it.

Assuming it is indeed...

By defaul AppDynamics will come with all the counters you need for SQL Server so nothing required to add to it.

I use both AppD and SQL Monitor and...

or another alternative to Luis code - wonder which one will run faster

UPDATE Inventory
SET ItemNum = stuff(ItemNum, 1, patindex('%[^0]%', ItemNum) - 1, '')
WHERE ItemNum like '0%'

I would try and do one of those loads onto a varchar(100) and then do a select convert(uniqueidentifier, varcharcolumn) and see if any fails.

If the test above does...