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  • RE: Restore part of the data

    Rumour also has it that database snapshots may allow what you want, without the need to restore a database at all.

    Re filegroups - You can restore individual filegroups in SQL...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: sql server running slow

    That's a very big question. It depends very much on the circumstances - a user, specific time of day, all the time, random times, etc

    I'd start with performance monitor,...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Blast Off

    Manie (2/27/2008)


    Howcome it is that I don't know about the event in JHB. How did I miss that one!

    You didn't miss much. The MS slides and demos were good,...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Could not allocate space for object 'MSmerge_tombstone' in database ' ' because the 'PRIMARY' filegroup is full.

    dakshinamurthy (2/26/2008)


    Can i uncheck the check box of auto shrink is it okay to do that.

    Absolutely. Uncheck it now. Autoshrink should never be enabled on a production server. See...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Blast Off

    Free food, free drink and free swag. What's not to like?

    I'll be at the JHB launch in about 5 hours.

    Gail Shaw
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    SQL In The Wild: Discussions on DB performance with occasional diversions into recoverability

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  • RE: Could not allocate space for object 'MSmerge_tombstone' in database ' ' because the 'PRIMARY' filegroup is full.

    Check the space available and space on disk for the distribution database.

    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: question on stored procedure

    It's not a stored proc.

    ALTER DATABASE <Database name> SET OFFLINE

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: maximum number of records

    Plase don't post multiple threads on the same problem. It wastes people's time and fragments replies.

    Replies to the following thread please - http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic460688-146-1.aspx

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Query help needed

    It would help if you could give us sample input and desired output. I think I'm still misunderstanding what you have and what you want.

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Msg 137, Level 15, State 1

    And the root problem is that you can't use variables to specify the table name. If you want the update to affect different tables depending on the variable, you'll have...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Query help needed

    Couple problems here.

    You're missing a join between the two tables SYCFStore s, SYCFSYSTEM sy. Means you'll get a cross join if they have data in them.

    The from clause should be...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: datetime problem

    If all the rows cast to datetime without an error, then you can ignore that warning and change the data type.

    Take a backup of the data first, of course, just...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: tempdb order by issue

    Matt Miller (2/26/2008)


    True with one caveat - ORDER BY during an insert would guarantee the values doled out by any Identity field in the destination table.

    True. I always forget...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Question about maintenance job

    Rather don't shrink the database. If you truncate the table then the empty space in the DB can be reused by future inserts.

    If you shrink the DB, it just...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: datetime problem

    Look up convert. There should be an appropriate style that you can use to convert the date into a datetime. Once it's in a datetime, you can convert it back...

    Gail Shaw
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