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  • RE: SQL Server 2005 error message when connecting to another pc sql server

    Have you enabled remote connections?

    On the machine you can't connect to, run the surface area config and check that remote connections have been enabled.

    When you run the Surface area...

    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: loosing permissions?

    TempDB is completely recreated every time SQL starts. What you're seeing is normal and expected.

    If you want permission changes to persist through a restart, you'll have to set them on...

    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: What makes an SP to run long sometimes?

    Hmmm....

    Has the slow execution reoccured? Is it happening regularly?

    As more general comments:

    Why are you using dynamic SQL in one place? I can't see anything in there that would need...

    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: how to Convert varchar to Numeric

    There are some values in that column that cannot be converted to numeric. You're going to have to find those values and either remove them or exclude them from the...

    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: Regarding database file shrinking

    Don't shrink your database. It causes massive index fragmentation and the DB will quite likely just grow again, possibly causing file-level fragmentation.

    See - shrinking databases[/url]

    Why do you want to shrink?

    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: What makes an SP to run long sometimes?

    That's a compile time of 16 sec! That's a little extreme.

    Do you have contention for your procedure cache? (Are you seeing blocking with a [compile] description)

    If you check perfmon, what...

    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: how to overcome sql injection

    Parameterise all queries in your front end app. Do not concatenated together SQL statements and execute them.

    Preferably, use stored procedures for data access only and do not allow the application...

    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: What does this error mean?

    The error message is getting cut off. You'll need the entire message before you can find a the cause

    Go into the job step. On the advanced tab there will ba...

    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: Select Into not getting indexes and constraints

    Have you looked at database snapshots? It seems to me that creating a snapshot may solve your problem.

    They do have an IO load impact though.

    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: failed login attemps as sa from multiple ips

    ltoso (7/11/2008)


    Hi,

    thanx for usefull information guys, the reason why i cannot disable the sa account because helm the web hosting control panel uses this account to create databases

    That's a...

    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: failed login attemps as sa from multiple ips

    ltoso (7/11/2008)


    Hi

    can you guys tell me what will be the straight forward way to change the password for sa account through sql server management studio,

    I already did.

    You can rename...

    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: ERROR: String o binary data would be truncated

    Jeff Moden (7/12/2008)


    Oh, I love those words! "Stuffed up"... I've got an Irish friend at work who says they "buggered it up"... if people only know how nasty those...

    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: Error in Single Record, Msg 3624 m_offBeginVar < m_SizeRec

    Ben Blum (7/13/2008)


    I am running Sql 2000 sp3. I found the problem, unfortunately I have no idea how it happened. When I had some time to mess around on the...

    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: Using Profiler Measurements

    TRACEY (7/12/2008)


    A lot of data 🙂

    I was trying to get it in MG to explain to people how much data they are requesting...blocks will not mean too much to them.

    So...

    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: Using Profiler Measurements

    The logical reads and writes are a count of pages, not MB, GB or other size measurements.

    A page in SQL is 8kB, so if profiler tells you that for...

    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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