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  • RE: Help Others, Help Yourself

    That was exactly my thinking when I started answering questions here. My thinking was that I was going to learn more by trying to figure out the answers to people's...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: Email when replication fails

    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/Topic850417-291-1.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: Modified User

    No need for two updates or two triggers. That's just doubling the work SQL has to do.

    ALTER TRIGGER [dbo].[trAddressCreateDate] ON [dbo].[Address]

    FOR INSERT, UPDATE

    AS

    UPDATE Address

    SET Created=getdate(),

    ...

    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: Modified User

    Nabha (1/20/2010)


    But I dont think trigger is the right way of handling it? You can just set the default values for these two columns in the table?

    Defaults only apply on...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: Your own SPID

    idiescreaming (1/19/2010)


    They said that they are aware of DB inconsistencies caused by killing a process but they still wanna do it.

    Killing a process will not cause database inconsistencies. SQL will...

    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: Bulk insert getting failed

    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/Topic849572-338-1.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: Log (LDF) file erro

    Do not ever delete the log file. It's not an optional component of the database. If you delete it, there's a good chance that the DB will not come online.

    Was...

    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: Location of resource database ( SQL 2008 ONLY )

    The resource database on SQL 2008 is not stored with the other system databases. It's stored with the binaries, as if it were a dll or exe.

    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: Tried to move the system databases but end up in errors!

    You haven't given the most important information - the SQL error log. It's just a text file, no need for SQL to be running to access it. Find the error...

    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: Introduction to Indexes: Part 2 – The clustered index

    talltop-969015 (1/20/2010)


    I have gotten people fired in the past who say "it depends" all the time. Either give me a straight non-convoluted answer, or keep quiet or just say I...

    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 it possible to keep my database in RAM????

    Markus (1/20/2010)


    Couldn't one just 'pin' the tables in the specific database and that would hold them in memory? I have never done this but I have heard of it.

    No....

    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: Disk / File Tuning

    Please rather post new questions in new threads. Thanks

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: Strategies for bypassing the 8,060 byte limit on Row Length

    Tom Carnahan (1/19/2010)


    Would either of you know what BOL is talking about when it says that for SS2K, the max row length is 8060 bytes? I clearly saw that by...

    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: Strategies for bypassing the 8,060 byte limit on Row Length

    Use the NTEXT data type. It's stored out of row and the maximum is somewhere around 2 billion characters.

    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: adding to compatibility mode

    jeffmc123452003 (1/19/2010)


    that query was within sql studio

    Doesn't matter what you're running it in. You are connected to a SQL 2000 server, that's why the maximum compatibility you can set is...

    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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