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  • RE: Automating snapshots of a mirror for ad hoc reporting purposes

    tnk (10/24/2010)


    Our accountants could benefit from having a copy of our ERP systems database for reporting. Based on the research I've done, I am considering setting up asynchronous mirroring and...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: How to do row&column grouping in reporting services 2008

    Think you could perhaps be a little more specific about what you want?

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Information about Row&Column grouping in SSRS 2008

    Please don't cross post. It just wastes peoples time and fragments replies.

    No replies to this thread please. Direct replies to: http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1009755-1633-1.aspx

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
    SQL In The Wild: Discussions on DB performance with occasional diversions into recoverability

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  • RE: Automating snapshots of a mirror for ad hoc reporting purposes

    Duplicate post. No replies to this thread please. Direct replies to:http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1009782-1549-1.aspx

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
    SQL In The Wild: Discussions on DB performance with occasional diversions into recoverability

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  • RE: Rebuild Index Error -1073548784

    That error can mean just about anything.

    If you rebuild manually, does it work?

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
    SQL In The Wild: Discussions on DB performance with occasional diversions into recoverability

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  • RE: object with managedDTS

    Please don't cross post. It just wastes peoples time and fragments replies.

    No replies to this thread please. Direct replies to: http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1009735-1351-1.aspx

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
    SQL In The Wild: Discussions on DB performance with occasional diversions into recoverability

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  • RE: need T-SQL code/script for shrinking all user db t-log files

    Shrinking logs once-off (after bad maintenance) is one thing. Shrinking in a maint plan (scheduled) is a seriously bad idea. The logs are just going to grow again unless you've...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
    SQL In The Wild: Discussions on DB performance with occasional diversions into recoverability

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  • RE: Odd String Replacement of Characters

    I lied, no need for LEN. :hehe:

    DECLARE @FileName VARCHAR(50) = '10494B-XL-Large.jpg';

    SELECT REVERSE(RIGHT(REVERSE(@FileName), CHARINDEX('-', REVERSE(@FileName) ,0)-1));

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
    SQL In The Wild: Discussions on DB performance with occasional diversions into recoverability

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  • RE: Odd String Replacement of Characters

    Old, old trick. Most commonly used for extracting just the file name or just the folders from a full path - C:\Some\Odd\Dir\Thisfile.txt

    Not just a T-SQL trick.

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
    SQL In The Wild: Discussions on DB performance with occasional diversions into recoverability

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  • RE: Odd String Replacement of Characters

    You want to remove the second hyphen and everything after it?

    If there will only ever be two hyphens, reverse the string, take everything to the right of the first hyphen,...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
    SQL In The Wild: Discussions on DB performance with occasional diversions into recoverability

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  • RE: SQL Slammer

    I know of a local company that has lots (30+) MSDE installations all on RTM or SP1. I've warned them a couple times about what will happen if Slammer gets...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Jeff Moden (10/24/2010)


    Wow... thanks for the insight on SSIS, folks. I've mostly resisted spending any decent amount of time on it because of what I've seen. Thanks to...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
    SQL In The Wild: Discussions on DB performance with occasional diversions into recoverability

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  • RE: Is this "global recession" over?

    Jeff Moden (10/24/2010)


    a lot of country's governments bailed out their own banking systems...

    Not ours. Our banking system was never in trouble, due to some banking laws that have been...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
    SQL In The Wild: Discussions on DB performance with occasional diversions into recoverability

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  • RE: Is this "global recession" over?

    Not over. Not globally anyway.

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
    SQL In The Wild: Discussions on DB performance with occasional diversions into recoverability

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  • RE: HELP IN MODIFYING STORED PROCS

    Query sys.dm_sql_referenced_entities, or do wildcard searches through sys.sql_modules to find affected procs

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
    SQL In The Wild: Discussions on DB performance with occasional diversions into recoverability

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