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  • RE: Why are my transactions running in SERIALIZABLE isolation level?

    Jeff Moden (11/19/2014)


    My thought would be that you're spending a whole lot of time on something that might not help.

    In this case I'd disagree. Serialisable, when used unnecessarily, can easily...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Decrpyting the password field in table

    How you decrypt it is completely dependent on how it was encrypted in the first place.

    p.s. Passwords shouldn't be encrypted, they should be hashed (cryptographic one-way hash) with a salt

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: alter table datatype giving error date to bit

    Your table is too wide. The fixed length columns in a table (data types other than varchar/nvarchar) cannot exceed 8060 bytes total. Your table is so large that adding the...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: DBCC CheckDB CREATE FILE encountered operating system error 1450

    phil_mw60 (11/19/2014)


    Although I understand that Check DB automatically creates a database snapshot when running in multi-user mode?

    Yes

    Will the following solution require me to place the DB into single user mode?

    Run...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Table changes lost

    Yup, something is dropping and recreating the table.

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Having issue with implementing CTE in Stored Procedure. Please help!!

    cphite (11/19/2014)


    GilaMonster (11/15/2014)


    cphite (11/14/2014)


    What purpose does making it mandatory actually serve?

    Simplifies the parser, makes it easier to extend the language. T-SQL's getting to the point where it's hard for the...

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

    The SQL is being called twice from the application.

    An RPC is a remote procedure call, the application calling a procedure on the SQL server. One call from the app, one...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: tempdb not release freespace from harddisk?

    Don't have time to hunt on google for you right now, have a quick search yourself please, you should find a pile of good material.

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Practice Restores Failure--Newbie Question

    The error means you were trying to restore over an existing database and there was at least one connection. Double-check the name of the database you're restoring as, make sure...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: Log file doesn't emptied

    The log file size is not supposed to decrease. That would be incredibly inefficient if SQL had to keep growing and shrinking the file.

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: Performance Trouble Shooting

    First thing, a million rows isn't free to return. That will take time in and of itself, after the query has run.

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: tempdb not release freespace from harddisk?

    SQL Galaxy (11/19/2014)


    generally it will be free up space from HDD Once complete the all transactions by automatically.

    No.

    It would be inefficient if it did, as the database would be...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: DBCC CheckDB CREATE FILE encountered operating system error 1450

    See http://blogs.msdn.com/b/psssql/archive/2008/07/10/sql-server-reports-operating-system-error-1450-or-1452-or-665-retries.aspx

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: tempdb not release freespace from harddisk?

    750 MB is the initial size, the size that it will be after restart. If that's not enough for your workload, TempDB will grow. In your case it's grown to...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: Hello Guys I'm New Here

    lol2k12 (11/13/2014)


    Steve Jones - SSC Editor (11/11/2014)


    If I Google "SQL Server 2008 R2 Express Edition" the first link is a download from Microsoft. They have made it available.

    If you 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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