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Yes you may.
It's simply another backup, but it doesn't affect the chain of log backups and differential backups which are based on the last full backup.
To use it, simply...
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June 4, 2009 at 7:52 am
Kalen is a lady.
According to BOL, An index can be rebuilt with ALLOW_PAGE_LOCKS set to off, but it can't be reorganized.
It's not recommended to mess with the locking mechanisms...
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June 4, 2009 at 7:29 am
Except when dealing with Oracle structures & data, we actually try to stay away from odd ball abbreviations. It's so much easier to understand what 'DeductibleRate' is versus 'DdltblRt.' Our...
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June 4, 2009 at 7:20 am
Jeff, after you install the hand rails, you'll also need one of these:

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June 4, 2009 at 6:02 am
Statistics & data distribution yes, but CPU, memory and disk I/O are also taken into account (although not I/O speed). You also have to deal with parallelism as a factor....
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June 3, 2009 at 3:40 pm
Costs are an estimated value base on a baseline machine from back in the 90's. They're extremely arbitrary and subject to all sorts of vagaries around the statistics of the...
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June 3, 2009 at 12:19 pm
That's a little bit fast. It's based on a cleanup process that starts with the complexity of the plan. The simpler the plan, the lower the complexity number, therefor the...
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June 3, 2009 at 7:40 am
It still sounds like a permissions problem.
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June 3, 2009 at 7:33 am
INT will sort faster then DATETIME but not radically faster. Have you updated the statistics on the index recently, maybe with a full scan. Is there a good data distribution...
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June 3, 2009 at 7:09 am
The procedure cache can and does change. Procedures age out of cache as they are not accessed. It's a pretty normal part of the process.
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June 3, 2009 at 6:50 am
If I understand the code and the explanation, I think you can change this to use a single pass through one cursor. Instead of a set of SELECT statements and...
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June 3, 2009 at 6:47 am
Loading the output from a procedure into a temp table and then joining that temp table with your other tables is a good approach. As was noted, if you only...
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June 3, 2009 at 6:41 am
Does the account that SQL Server is running under have access to that drive and/or share? It sounds like a security issue.
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June 3, 2009 at 6:35 am
Steve Jones - Editor (6/2/2009)
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Roy Ernest (6/2/2009)
Grant, Bill says Hi back to you.. 🙂He wants to know if you still got your Fedora?? 😉
That thing made my head itch something fierce. It's gone.
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