It's running then. No other way to be sure what it's doing. You can use the offset to understand which statement is currently being run, assuming that's useful. Otherwise, all...

I'd take a look at sys.dm_exec_requests and see what that process is doing. What's it waiting on? Is it blocked? All that stuff.

In general, yes, I'd break this down into...

You can use the Dynamic Management Object sys.dm_sql_referenced_entities to gather the tables & views referenced by a procedure. That assumes that the procedure is not dynamic SQL though.

Honestly? I don't think so. I don't have enough understanding what that data represents to give you...

Short answer, right at the beginning.

Just be careful with the nomenclature. Schema can mean the database design and it can mean the owners of the objects within the database....

We did this 18 months ago. We were able to schedule downtime, so we went with the simple process of a backup, copy & restore to move the databases to...

Only as you implement more and more functionality, Reporting Services, Analysis Services, otherwise, by and large, running the SQL Server service is about the same. However, we have hundreds of...

I've seen errors like this and they've always been a security issue. I'd double check that the job is running under the account you think it is and that that...

Export the stored procedures out to a script or set of alter scripts. Make the changes in the scripts. Run the scripts against the server.

For a mechanism to automate...

1. Normalization is a part of design, as Paul says. The amount of weight that goes behind it? A lot. You really should normalize the database design properly or you...

I've been working for a large company and I set up, what we used to call in the Navy, a "Tiger Team." It was meant not as a leadership team...

Nope. The default trace does not capture DML...

You've got a "very important" production database and no log backups and an untested recovery process? It's either not actually "very important" or you guys have a long and painful...

I might be missing something, but couldn't you just do a GROUP BY on the date with a count? Seems like that would be a lot easier than loading temporary...

dajonx (12/22/2010)

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