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  • RE: Restoring DBs from files not backups?

    kevaburg (12/1/2014)


    if I were you I would build a 2008R2 box, attach all of your user databases with new log files

    SQL can't create new log files because the databases were...

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  • RE: Database Inaccessible

    Yeah, moving the database files without telling SQL where they've gone will result in the database being inaccessible....

    If you're certain that the DB files are back in the correct place,...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: Restoring DBs from files not backups?

    For master, no. You cannot use the system databases from a previous version. Try to copy them over the SQL 2014 master and all you'll succeed in doing is preventing...

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

    I don't want to see the entire thing. Read through it, identify all the errors relating to this database (they'll be close to the time when it went into the...

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

    The SQL Agent error log is not particularly useful for database engine errors....

    Open the SQL error log (not the SQL Agent log), post here (as text, not an image) all...

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

    Open the error log. Find all errors relating to this database. Post them here.

    DO NOT detach this database.

    Don't restart the server.

    Don't restart SQL

    It means that SQL could not open all...

    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: help with files in database

    Are the files all in the same filegroup? Or are they in three different filegroups?

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: I'm Stumped - Starting SQL With Domain Account

    You may need to open a case with Customer Support then.

    Never use the services app to change a SQL logon. Config manager is the only thing which should be used...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: I'm Stumped - Starting SQL With Domain Account

    Where and how did you change the service account?

    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: Genarate reports through Log shipping

    Doing so means that the secondary server must be licensed.

    Also the disconnection that Gianluca mentioned. If there are log restores running every 15 minutes and a report takes 20...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: How to get DATETIME number?

    Edvard Korsbæk (11/30/2014)


    Because i have to do a lot of calculations with the dates.

    Look up the DATEADD and DATEDIFF functions

    You need a number representing the date.

    Thats why.

    So something like the...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Need help with performance...

    From that blog post:

    The problem with these types of queries is that there is no stable plan. The optimal plan differs completely depending on what paramters are passed. The optimiser...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: How to get DATETIME number?

    ... Why? ...

    Why do you want to convert numbers to dates and back?

    Oh, and how you do it is pretty much the way you showed in your example

    SELECT CAST(41960 AS...

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

    Jeff Moden (11/28/2014)


    It would be really cool if we could get MS to retrofit this to 2012 and 2014.

    Snowball's chance in hell.

    They don't back-port features, can't think of any...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Alter the schema from one view causes the need to alter the other

    river1 (11/28/2014)


    What do you mean by stop using select?

    I didn't say stop using select. I said stop using SELECT *. Explicitly define what columns you need and you won't have...

    Gail Shaw
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