Apologies. I think that might have sounded more argumentative than I meant for it to.

I agree. There are a number of ways to skin this particular cat. None of them...

If it's all for a single application, I'd go with schema's to seperate out storage, access, security. This way you can have referential integrity across the schema's as needed, something...

For the absolute best PowerShell training, I recommend tracking down Don Jones and seeing when he's offering a class in your area. His training is excellent.

I'm not sure what the problem might be, but why are you taking a differential backup at one minute intervals, but only backing up the log once an hour. It...

I think the error you're getting is "fallback certificate initialization failed"

I've never heard of this error myself, but it seems that it's not uncommon[/url]. It may have something to do...

If you want to capture performance counters in TSQL, instead of using extended calls, which can be very problematic, and require different security settings that might not be all that...

2005 or above, I'd go to sys.dm_exec_requests to see which processes are running slow, which ones have wait states, which ones are blocked. You can combine it with sys.dm_exec_sessions to...

Agreed with Pradeep. However, the best way to be sure the backup is valid is to have tested it against another server in an actual restore. For some of our...

You can use Profiler to capture statement starts, but if a statement errors out, Profiler doesn't catch that completion event because it didn't fire. I agree with everyone else. I'd...

Sounds like you got past the issue. I strongly recommend the approach you took, rewriting the query to use better mechanisms as a tuning method. I really, really, hate what...

GSquared (12/28/2010)

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You can do this via means like sp_MSForEachDB.

What I recommend, however, is if the data is the same in each database, move it to one database and have the...

Steve Jones - SSC Editor (12/28/2010)

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WayneS (12/28/2010)

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Okay, let's talk about blogging. I've seen a few posts from time to time, but I don't recall seeing anything dealing with:

(From a higher...

WayneS (12/28/2010)

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Okay, let's talk about blogging. I've seen a few posts from time to time, but I don't recall seeing anything dealing with:

(From a higher level) How to set up...

Henry Treftz (12/28/2010)

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The only thing to be mindful of, is if your target production environment is not Enterprise Edition to not use features and functionality that is only in Enterprise...

wendy elizabeth (12/28/2010)

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I forgot to mention that I am using sql server 2005 standard edition. I can not find sys.dm_sql_referenced_entities in the that edition. Is there something else I can...