Gail is 100% correct.

You could look into using snapshot isolation as a way to reduce locking issues. It increases the load on tempdb and some on the CPU, but...

Import/Export uses SSIS. You can go to SSIS directly. It's more work, but you can make a more efficient DTL.

In a perfect world, no. In reality, yeah. But specifically what would be the difference? I'm not sure. I haven't found the export wizard to create the most efficient ETL...

There is a template, but, like Gus says, unless they do precisely the same thing every time to create a new proc and no one ever just starts typing (same...

Assuming the source tables are not being updated, no, it should only be putting shared locks on them for reading. It might cause excessive I/O, memory, or CPU use while...

SAT_SQL (6/17/2009)

This is regarding the Trace & DTA.

Question:

1)

I am working in sql-2005,If i want to no that weather the Trace is running...

I think you've already hit the best option, use trace events to see what calls have come through. You can also query the system cache to see what's there, but...

You might want to post this in Scripts area (look to the left, just below forums on the menu choices). It's more likely to be found by people looking for...

Yeah, I was going to suggest SQLCMD as well.

Plus, why are you manually opening all kinds of windows in SSMS to do manual updates all day long? You should be...

As far as documentation goes, use the stuff that comes with VSTS:DBE. It's pretty complete, especially on installs.

You wouldn't need to uninstall Visual Studio to install the Team Edition. It...

Excellently stated. I wish I had been able to come up with these exact arguments a year ago when one of our major projects started down the object database path....

A foreign key constraint can only be placed on a primary key or on a unique constraint. So, if the parent table has another column that you can place a...

GSquared (6/15/2009)

Not sure what you mean. I...

Our plans are to perform most of our upgrades as side-by-side upgrades, meaning we install a new server with SQL Server 2008 and then backup & restore the 2000 databases...

No. It can't be changed.

If you need perfectly synchronized incrementally increasing numbers, you should come up with a mechanism to create them. That's not the purpose of the Identity column....