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  • RE: SQL 2005 Express : service pack & default instance name

    onlo (8/26/2008)


    (2)The default instance name of SQL 2005 Standard or Enterprise Editions are the server's machine name, but in my newly installed SQL 2005 Express, the default instance name is...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: SQL 2000 Server Slowness

    Firstly, don't delete your log. You are asking for a suspect database doing that. It will grow when you do index rebuilds.

    It could be a number of things. If you...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: paging problems

    Are the instances all enterprise edition? Standard edition ignores locked pages.

    What's the max memory set to on each of the instances?

    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: Working with DEFAULT constraint

    Defaults only apply to new rows inserted. If you want the existing rows with null to change to that value, you'll have to run an update statement.

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: Looking at MCTS - SQL Server 2005 - but should I just wait for 2008?

    If you're working with 2005, take the 2005 exams. They're not redundant with SQL 2008 out and I believe there will be an upgrade path.

    I wrote one of the betas...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: Problems with Primary Key

    Are you getting an error message? If so, what? How are you trying to set the primary key?

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: Is there a way to reorder my table columns, I tried to do it unsuccessfully via system objects

    Colmn order doesn't really have a meaning in SQL. It just determines how the columns appear when the create table is scripted and how they are returned if SELECT *...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: String Manipulation

    Duplicate post.

    Direct replies to http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic558592-149-1.aspx please

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: SQL Server

    Not the backup.

    You said the database had being detached. Can you reattach the database files to the SQL instance?

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Rebuilding all indexes on all databases after SQL 2000 to 2005 migration.

    armintucakovic (8/25/2008)


    As I understand it rebuilding indexes will update stats automaticly equal to full scan and so I dont have to do that? correct?

    Correct. There are a number of scripts...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Regarding LOG file.

    HanShi (8/25/2008)


    For performance it is better to NOT shrink the LOG-file. It takes lots of I/O for the log-file to expand each time.

    In addition it causes internal log fragmentation...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: Database Recovery

    Strange. It's as if it is in autoclose, despite not being set that way. That's certainly not normal behaviour. Strange. I'll look into this.

    Some advice: CheckDB with any form of...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: Assigning Null value to the variable

    sugan (8/25/2008)


    Is it possible to assign null value to variable.

    Yes, and I showed how to do it. As for the second part, try something like this:

    SET @string1 = 'insert...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: TEMPDB - Muliple Files and striped disks

    Cliff Jones (8/25/2008)


    Do you still need to enable trace flag -T1118 to enable the uniform allocations feature in SQL 2005 as we did in SQL 2000?

    I don't believe so.

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: SQL Programming

    Please could you post create statements for the tables, sample data (as insert statements) and your expected output.

    Having all that makes it much easier and faster for us to get...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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