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I'm with Jeff here. I hope we never have a standards body, a union, or a government dictated board that we have to pass to work in IT. Too many...

Jeff Moden (4/14/2010)

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abrar.ahmad-1058946 (4/13/2010)

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[font="Verdana"]Can anyone of ranks higher than "Old Hand"(SSC ranking) let forward some exceptional tips for "SSC Rookie" or less to attain/pave their career with a Plus? :smooooth:

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RBarryYoung (4/13/2010)

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Grant Fritchey (4/13/2010)

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She's doing fine. We've exchanged email a bit. She's busy working on her masters thesis....

She's doing fine. We've exchanged email a bit. She's busy working on her masters thesis. We'll only see...

Although you mention SQL Server 2005, since you're posting this in the SQL Server 2008 forum, you might want to consider looking at using the FileStream data type and then...

TAMMYAUDETTE (4/12/2010)

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Thanks for all the replies!

I am genuinely grateful for the help I've received so far, and I look forward to the point where I can take what I've learned...

I hope that person didn't read the whole article and still come away with the impression that it was serious... but it looks like they came away with that impression,...

It's possible that you have some skewed data that when used to generate the execution plan, it results in a bad plan, but when different data is used, you get...

Then you need to resort to traditional methods. Make a much bigger log file. Break up the transaction into smaller parts, either commit seperate sections of the process instead of...

Yeah, you can gather a lot of performance metrics from DMV's. You can't get into what's occurring within an execution plan with anything except execution plans, but you can get...

Try putting tblHolding into a database and then setting the Recovery to simple. That way the log will only hold open transactions and those transactions completed between checkpoints. You won't...

I'd need more details to be sure, but it sounds like you're seeing execution plans change during the day. Updating the stats causes the plan to recompile. I'd suggest getting...

If it was working two days ago and it's not working now, something changed somewhere.

It doesn't state explicitly that you're using SQL Agent to run this, but I'll assume so....