Have a look at the sys.dm_db_task_space_usage and sys.dm_db_session_space_usage DMVs.

It's probably just a quick example, or an obfuscated table. See the column names that I use in my writing for useless.

Usually like

SELECT SomeInt, SomeString, SomeDate from SomeTable

Just a quick comment on the process, not the query...

Unless you've taken the full backup WITH CHECKSUM, the verifyonly verifies very little of the backup and can easily verify as...

Welcome to Books Online. I personally love the sections that are completely, blatantly wrong.

Log backup size in full and bulk logged recovery model will be roughly the same size.

Full recovery the entire size of the data inserted goes into the log records and...

Manual task.

Log backups don't change the size of the file, they just mark the space inside as reusable.

Please read through this - Managing Transaction Logs[/url]

On the log file, too tired to explain, but these should cover most.

Managing Transaction Logs[/url]

http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Transaction+Log/72488/

Free up space on the drive and the database will carry on working with no additional work on your side. Worst case, if you can't, add a second log file...

You don't need to alter permissions on a user (and...

It shouldn't do. There's probably...

SQL shouldn't shut down due to lack of space, unless something bad went wrong in the system DBs. It would normally just roll back the offending transactions, at most make...

The MSDN page you quoted above has the information you're asking for.

So, to view all the users,...

Take the DB offline, bring it online. Of course that also kicks all users out, clears the plan cache and the data cache, so may not be desirable.

Why not save...

Does this do what you want?

DECLARE @StartDate DATETIME = '2011-01-01',

@EndDate DATETIME = '2012-03-31';

WITH Base AS (

SELECT * FROM (VALUES (0),(1),(2),(3),(4),(5),(6),(7),(8),(9)) b (number)

),

Calendar AS (

SELECT DATEADD(dd,ROW_NUMBER() OVER (ORDER BY (SELECT...