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Alter Table is the only way to add an identity column to an existing table.
Other methods involve copying the table (usually to a temp table), dropping it, recreating it, and...
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November 17, 2010 at 1:44 pm
The "hot spot" thing has been fixed for a while. I think since SQL 2000. Not so much of an issue these days.
I'd say the bigger issue to...
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November 17, 2010 at 1:39 pm
Server groups are server groups. If they have members, they might end up being in use.
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November 17, 2010 at 1:32 pm
It means one or more rows are returning something that can't be converted into a big integer.
You might be able to use IsNumeric to find which rows.
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November 17, 2010 at 1:31 pm
If you post it on Microsoft Connect, people can vote for/against it, and Microsoft gets the suggestion there.
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November 17, 2010 at 1:29 pm
Windows can only pass authentication keys from one computer to one other, it doesn't allow chaining them. So, if you use Windows credentials to log in to a workstation,...
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November 17, 2010 at 1:28 pm
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November 17, 2010 at 11:35 am
Only nothing to worry about if it's not a hardware problem that's going to get worse. I'd at least run diagnostics on that.
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November 16, 2010 at 2:52 pm
Yeah, that works too. I was just talking about reading error messages in SSMS, but getting an actual error value makes more sense for what you're looking for.
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November 16, 2010 at 2:51 pm
You're welcome.
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November 16, 2010 at 2:45 pm
Ah. That makes sense then.
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November 16, 2010 at 2:42 pm
Have you looked at performance monitor to see what is taking up time? Is it running into memory pressure issues?
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November 16, 2010 at 12:54 pm
There's always a point, beyond which, no amount of optimizing anything has any measurable positive effect. There's also a point where the cost of increasing the optimization exceeds the...
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November 16, 2010 at 12:45 pm
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Thanks guys. I'll leave him be, he's had enough prompting.Think he'll PM you again for more help?
No idea, Wayne.
That really...
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November 16, 2010 at 11:09 am
Yeah, I confused it for a moment with the sys.columns view. Should have looked before I posted.
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