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  • RE: 70-459 help

    Books Online works, otherwise use the books/training resources for the exams which it replaces. Upgrade exams don't tend to get books.

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Sure, toss them my way

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: How to find which columns in which tables in which databases content the needed value in sql?

    You'll need to query every single table and search on every single column.

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: help: how to delete or drop index to free up space ?

    The clustered index is the table, so deleting it won't help you.

    If the data isn't important, how about archiving or deleting old data?

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: Login issue on SQL

    Eirikur Eiriksson (5/31/2015)


    Quick suggestion, log on to the server and run SSMS as Administrator, should be able to connect from there.

    Won't help, Administrator is not a default SQL login, not...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: Server is not responding - default trace

    It's not, unless when you set the replication up, you configured it to use the sa account (which is not default iirc)

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: loading and reformatting text file data into into SQL table

    Jeff Moden (5/30/2015)


    1. Do you want to capture the fact that the items after the @ symbol change?

    2. In the case of things like "hicks2001" "conference:06", what do you want...

    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: Instead Of Triggers on Views

    That's not going to work at all.

    declare @moneyid int

    select @moneyid = moneyid from inserted

    You're assuming there's only ever one row updated at a time. When more than one row 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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  • RE: Audit trigger returning multiple records

    With the trigger code there, that's not possible. That trigger will write into the audit table the rows which were affected by the delete with the host name and user...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: It's emergency situation. Select from locked rows

    Unless you had some monitoring in place at the time of those events, you probably can't figure out the cause.

    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: Server is not responding - default trace

    Probably not, the error log would be a far more likely place to have that info.

    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: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Steve Jones - SSC Editor (5/29/2015)


    You'd think it was still winter.

    But it is.

    Warm winter at the moment, but it's definitely winter (dry as anything)

    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: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Lynn Pettis (5/29/2015)


    Eirikur Eiriksson (5/29/2015)


    A currently active thread: "I don't use any clustered indexes actually... all of mine are non-clustered..."

    Sometimes I do wonder where things went wrong with MS and...

    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: Ye Old Shrinkfile

    Steven W (5/29/2015)


    I don't use any clustered indexes actually... all of mine are non-clustered...

    Errr.. wha?

    That's a really odd decision seeing as the SQL storage engine is designed with the idea...

    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: Migrating SQL Server database over to Oracle

    No feature, just a rather large pile of manual work.

    You'll need to take the table create statements and change the data types to match Oracle, you'll need to check every...

    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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