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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Jeff Moden (12/30/2008)


    It's just that I can do a lot better with the miniscule ETL tools available in T-SQL and SSIS was supposed to make ETL easier for...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: performance

    sunandas (12/30/2008)


    Around 30000000 records are there in the table.

    And you want to remove all of them?

    I cant use TRUNCATE as its index will also removed(though I can recreate it again).

    Truncate...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Performance isssue

    Jeff Moden (12/30/2008)


    The only way it's going to get any faster is if someone sits down with the business rules, and rewrites it using some decent set based logic. ...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Jeff Moden (12/30/2008)


    Seems like the intent of Microsoft was to make things easier for folks that don't know how to do it in T-SQL...

    I don't agree with that. SSIS...

    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: Urgent: aproblem in Storeprocedure

    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/Topic627035-146-1.aspx

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Differential Backup Failures

    Jeffrey Williams (12/30/2008)


    The question I have is what else could cause a database to not have a current backup. Is this a bug that existed in an earlier version?

    That's...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: performance

    GilaMonster (12/29/2008)


    How many rows do you need to delete, how many rows are you keeping?

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Differential Backup Failures

    I found the bug that I was thinking about, but it's 2005 RTM, fixed by SP2

    http://support.microsoft.com/kb/921106

    If the diff succeeds on the sat, but fails on the sunday, I think you're...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Differential Backup Failures

    biniyb (12/30/2008)


    It seems that you tested an error message pertaining to the log backup...i'm having an issue with the DIFF backup. Unless i completely misunderstood your explanation.

    The test was for...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Differential Backup Failures

    Bini, I seem to recall there's a bug in one version of SQL regarding the diff backups. Perhaps a google search of support.microsoft.com would turn something up

    Jeffrey : I setup...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: performance

    How many rows do you need to delete, how many rows are you keeping?

    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: Which exam/s need to pass to get MCITP: DBA 2008 from MCDBA 2000?

    See here for all certification info - http://www.microsoft.com/learning/mcp/certifications.mspx

    To upgrade MCDBA to SQL 2008 MCITP (DB Admin), you need to first get the SQL 2005 MCITP (DB Admin), as there's not...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Invoking the batch file using jobs

    Duplicate post. No replies to this thread please. Direct replies to: http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic627024-149-1.aspx

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Urgent : Problem getting when transfer database backup file on network storage device by FTP

    Depends on what FTP program you're using. See it's manual/help file for how to check what mode the transfer is in.

    I know the file is transfered, but that doesn't mean...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Urgent : Problem getting when transfer database backup file on network storage device by FTP

    Is the FTP succeeding? Is the file transferred completely?

    Are you doing the FTP in binary mode?

    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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