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  • RE: Service Pack 4

    I voted for both of them. Good thought there, Steve. SP3 for 2005 took that kind of nudge to get going, better to act now on this one...

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  • RE: Service Pack 4

    James Stover (12/27/2009)


    I'll go one further - I don't think it's acceptable to have service packs. It's an acknowledgement that a product is defective. Only after an unspecified number of...

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  • RE: Holiday Coverage

    Christmas isn't that important a holiday to me. I like the day off, and it's fun doing presents, but it doesn't have a religious significance nor importance to me....

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  • RE: The Balance of Resources

    Steve Jones - Editor (12/24/2009)


    I'm not sure I'd advocate skipping them, but they could be low key, take an afternoon off, potluck, and small recognitions at work, just to remind...

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  • RE: The Balance of Resources

    Investing in employee loyalty and morale is an investment in company profits and can have a significant ROI. Has to be managed correctly, but it can be done.

    It can...

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  • RE: Does DBAs use 'Update Statistics' maintenance plan task?

    I will run stat updates after index reorgs (not rebuilds, would be redundant).

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    CirquedeSQLeil (12/23/2009)


    10 am here - and not seeing a rousing response about work.

    Next question is: Who has mentally checked out for the holidays?

    This question assumes I ever mentally checked...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Matt Miller (#4) (12/23/2009)


    Roy Ernest (12/23/2009)


    I am working...Tomorrow I am OFF. Monday I will be back to work till Wednesday. Then I am off again. After that it will be...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    CirquedeSQLeil (12/23/2009)


    Today is the 23rd, and several we know are on vacation.

    So, who is really working??

    1 PM here. Still working. 4-day weekend starts tomorrow. Might sneak out...

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  • RE: Is it Possible to renumber a Identity Column?

    Steve Jones - Editor (12/23/2009)


    Lots of adds and deletes can do it. Our AV program would add in 10k+ every time, and I think it trimmed out values older than...

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  • RE: Upgrading SQL 2005 to SQL 2008 (in place)

    I haven't done a multi-instance in-place upgrade, so I can't say what to do technically. What I would suggest is contacting Microsoft support directly.

    I've done in-place upgrades, but only...

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  • RE: Is it Possible to renumber a Identity Column?

    Try a script like this in your dev/test environment:

    alter table dbo.MyTable

    drop column ID;

    alter table dbo.MyTable

    add ID int identity (-2147483648, 1);

    It will give you errors if there are constraints or indexes...

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  • RE: Statistics on query execution times for a period?

    The system views (DMVs) won't give you data particular to that time period. They will give you a lot of very valuable data, but it's since last service start,...

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  • RE: Is it Possible to renumber a Identity Column?

    Resetting the ID with checkident can cause problems. Take a look at checkident in Books Online for the details.

    Dropping and re-creating the column allows you to reset the starting...

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  • RE: Is it Possible to renumber a Identity Column?

    If the column really isn't used for much, you could probably drop it, re-create it, and seed the start value at -2,147,483,648. That gives you twice the range for...

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