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  • RE: data recovery problem: need help with sp_attach_d

    Hence the reason it's best to call PSS when doing that.

    I still think the best solution would have been to do a backup prior to the upgrade and then...




    Gary Johnson
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  • RE: SPs and OUTPUT parameters

    spireite,

    While building recordsets for a single record may seem trivial. As soon as you multiply that creation over all the conceivable connections a web server could have it can really...




    Gary Johnson
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  • RE: data recovery problem: need help with sp_attach_d

    Yes,

    I just found this work around myself. Here are the steps.

    create a new database by same name and same physical filenames as the old ones ( save out the old...




    Gary Johnson
    Microsoft Natural Language Group
    DBA, Sr. DB Engineer

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  • RE: data recovery problem: need help with sp_attach_d

    Very nice article Andy! I think I would rather restore the backup that I would have created just prior to installing SP4 though as I think that would simply be...




    Gary Johnson
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    DBA, Sr. DB Engineer

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  • RE: Back Up and Recovery w/ Merge Relp

    Look at the topic "Strategies for Backing Up and Restoring Merge Replication" in SQL Books Online.

    I have the following ready to do in case of a disaster (I sure...




    Gary Johnson
    Microsoft Natural Language Group
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  • RE: Is it possible to shrink when restoring dbs?

    There is no way to shrink the database during the restore process. The only solution is to shrink the database first and then back it up and restore it.

    Gary Johnson

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    Gary Johnson
    Microsoft Natural Language Group
    DBA, Sr. DB Engineer

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  • RE: Partial Restoration (Table)

    IMHO this is a really bad practice on a relational database. If you give people the ability to restore only one table in the database you give them the ability...




    Gary Johnson
    Microsoft Natural Language Group
    DBA, Sr. DB Engineer

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  • RE: data recovery problem: need help with sp_attach_d

    You might try to use CREATE DATABASE ... FOR ATTACH. But basically what you really want to do is to simply restore a backup of the database. sp_Attach... only works...




    Gary Johnson
    Microsoft Natural Language Group
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  • RE: Enter Text In Text Data Type

    Hi gregforeman,

    What language are you using to create the text box? Does the text box have a property to turn off the word wrapping of data? SQL Server couldn't care...




    Gary Johnson
    Microsoft Natural Language Group
    DBA, Sr. DB Engineer

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  • RE: SPs and OUTPUT parameters

    I use output parameters when I KNOW that there is only going to be one value returned. Otherwise I use resultsets. There is a lot of overhead to go along...




    Gary Johnson
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  • RE: Outlook XP

    I haven't had any problems at all with Office XP and SQL2K.

    Gary Johnson

    Microsoft Natural Language Group

    DBA, Sr. DB Engineer




    Gary Johnson
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    DBA, Sr. DB Engineer

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  • RE: 'suspect' database

    Many times you see the "suspect" database when the drive is too full for the database to be written to. Your solution to restore the database is the best approach...




    Gary Johnson
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  • RE: Can this Trigger be done?

    Try something like the following...

    IF EXISTS(SELECT * FROM...)

    BEGIN

    put your update here

    END

    ELSE

    BEGIN

    put your insert here

    END

    Gary Johnson

    Microsoft Natural Language Group

    DBA, Sr. DB Engineer




    Gary Johnson
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    DBA, Sr. DB Engineer

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  • RE: Help !!!! Issue with a Trigger code

    Can you give a little more background on what you are trying to do? Some DDL on the tables structure would really help here.

    It seems to me from looking at...




    Gary Johnson
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    DBA, Sr. DB Engineer

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  • RE: Scientific Number Format

    My guess is that the results coming from SQL Server are not actually in the scientic notation format you see but that either Crystal or ASP is doing the conversion...




    Gary Johnson
    Microsoft Natural Language Group
    DBA, Sr. DB Engineer

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