You want to take a look at the catalog views, like sys.database_files which will give you hard information about the files themselves, or dynamic management views, like sys.dm_db_file_space_usage which will...

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More detail would be needed to provide useful answers. Does merge mean two identical structures but different data, two completely different structures but similar data, two totally different structures and...

We've gone both ways. If you do leave the hyperthreading on, you can't treat it like a real multi-core machine. So for example we have two processor machines with hyperthreading,...

What about using a SCHEMA? Then you'd see the list like this:

Module1.Table1

Module2.Table2

Etc. Then you can use the Filter function in SSMS to only display the schema that you're interested in.

Another...

Instead of what you had:

SELECT DISTINCT Address1, Address2, City, Postcode, COUNT(Postcode)

FROM AddressTable

GROUP BY Postcode

HAVING COUNT(Postcode)

Why not simply do this?

SELECT Address1,Address2,City,PostCode,Count(PostCode)

FROM AddressTable

GROUP BY Address1,Address2,City,PostCode

HAVING Count(PostCode) > 1

The GROUP...

It has to be permissions. Just what it says. Remember, the backup is not running as you, it's running as the account that SQL Server runs under. So you have...

OK. That is odd then. I use this function regularly and it doesn't bump tempdb up to 20gb (I'd notice). Any triggers or anything like that on the table that...

It doesn't surprise me to see it in the tables with 50 rows. I ran into the same issue with tables that had less than ~200 rows.

The others... I'm not...

You can do this through Management Studio very quickly. Right clicking the object brings up a menu with "Script Stored Procedure as" and then another menu that has choices like...

We use that all the time with no serious issues. But then I've never monitored tempdb while running it. Are you breaking up your trace files or creating one gigantic...

How many rows are in the tables? I've seen this when the number of rows is very low. Other than that, rebuilding the index usually changes the fragmentation percentage.

So, would it be plagiarism to copy that from you?

At this point in time, keep your plans to work with 2000, but go ahead & skip 2005 and start learning 2008.

Take a look at the catalog views. Sys.Tables & Sys.Data_Spaces. This is quick & dirty:

select t.name as TableName

,s.name as FileGroupName

from sys.tables t

join sys.data_spaces s

on s.data_space_id = t.lob_data_space_id