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  • RE: Index usage statistics

    Not enough information.

    Decreasing fill factor is a decision you need to make based on how fast the index fragments and whether the increased size is worth the decreased fragmentation.

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Weird Behavior of Trigger

    Mark-545947 (2/14/2013)


    How do I tell the trigger that there are more than one record being inserted?

    There's no 'telling the trigger' anything. As far as SQL is concerned, a trigger works...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Weird Behavior of Trigger

    Mark-545947 (2/14/2013)


    Note, it's always the LAST item that gets recorded int BACK_ARCHIVE.

    WHY? I need all of them in BACK_ARCHIVE.

    As I said earlier

    That trigger assumes that any insert operation inserts one...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Index usage statistics

    A scan of a portion (range) of an index. Anything more than a single row is considered a range

    Low scans, high range scans, I'd say that index is well used.

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Index usage statistics

    But that's exactly what user scans are, the number of scans of the index caused by user queries.

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Cannot perform a differential backup for database "ReportServer"

    homebrew01 (2/14/2013)


    GilaMonster (2/14/2013)


    You have some third party tool backing up the databases as well as the native backups. My guess would be backupexec. The native and the 3rd part backups...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: SQL Server Snapshot Isolation Issue

    What is the statement's wait type?

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Character '*' in float column

    Bottom line, you can't put a * into a float column, it's not a float. It you want to badly mess thing up, you could convert the column to a...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Wait Type

    The process that is waiting is trying to acquire that lock.

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: SQL Query question

    Can you be a bit more specific? All the names from where? Not in what table?

    Table definition, sample data and expected results would help.

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Orphaned users versus loginless users

    Vera-428803 (2/14/2013)


    Is it correct to say that orphaned users don't have an instance login but do have a db login and that loginless users have an instance login but not...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Database Refresh

    Ask the person what they meant, because your explanation does not have enough info. What users of what, what attributes, what back-end, what sessions?

    The common meaning for 'database refresh' that...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: enable login failed

    Will only work if System is still a SQL login with sysadmin.

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: enable login failed

    Go speak to your DBA and ask him for additional permissions on this server.

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Cannot perform a differential backup for database "ReportServer"

    Check the error log, check the backup history tables, you have some 3rd party tool backing up your databases. Probably something one of your server admins put in place thinking...

    Gail Shaw
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