Over-priced 'consultants' who justify their non-standard settings and unconventional configuration options with 'It's best practice' with an undertone of 'and lesser...

The only thing you can't do with a copy-only is restore differentials onto it. You can restore log backups...

The key column vs include column should be answered by the third one.

All you need to do there is get the date of the current getdate(), with the time portion removed (easy enough), then add that 23 hours and 59 minutes to...

SET @StopTime = DATEADD(MINUTE,59,DATEADD(HOUR,23,GETDATE()))

Trace will stop 23 hours and 59 minutes after it starts, so if started at midnight it will stop at 23h59

The only way a DB can record 'negative' size or free space is when the page allocation data is wrong. Hence Jeff's recommendation.

Can you please run the following and post the full and complete, unedited output?

DBCC CheckDB(<database name here>) with no_infomsgs, all_errormsgs

I can't tell if you've left out a line or not.

Edit:...

Last time you asked that question (http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1574340-2799-1.aspx), I referred you to three articles on indexes. Did you read them?

Replacing EXISTS with (something) because Some Person said it's slow.

But that's not how subqueries behave....

What does set-based have to do with changing...

Igor Micev (6/2/2014)

Sometimes when you run the same query again it uses less physical reads, since...

In general, lower numbers are better, however those stats values are so low there's no point in tweaking.

As for subqueries vs joins, depends on where the subqueries are, how...

Why?

First test and see if there's a gram of truth in that statement and whether you even need to be looking for an alternative.