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  • RE: Is it possible to make a view on the registered servers?

    My mistake. I was thinking of linked servers.

    No, registered servers isn't something that's stored in the database. It's local application data.

    You can export your registered server data into...

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  • RE: Alert for the SQL agents

    You could set something up that will send an e-mail when the service stops. You'd have to write a program to send the alert, and then go to the...

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  • RE: Large Number of Tables (1,090,000)

    At the very least, I would expect that to slow down metadata queries, which just about everything needs. Plus, you're going to have the execution plan cache absolutely jammed...

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  • RE: Is it possible to make a view on the registered servers?

    Are you asking about creating a view to select from master.sys.servers?

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  • RE: REPLACE Multiple Spaces with One

    TheSQLGuru (11/16/2009)


    GSquared: did you try hard-coded space-strings instead of the pile of replicates? I would HOPE the optimizer would expand those on compile, but if it doesn't that...

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  • RE: Surely It Should Just Work?

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    GSquared (11/16/2009)


    She has a Swiss Army knife, I have a locking-blade pocket knife.

    I think it's cool both you and your wife have knives 🙂

    It's...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    CirquedeSQLeil (11/16/2009)


    Can Anybody help me explain group access and conn strings?

    No. I'm pretty sure only a limited subset of people can help with that.

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  • RE: REPLACE Multiple Spaces with One

    Michael Meierruth (11/16/2009)


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    I didn't see it later on, but my solution in the past has been very simple; nest REPLACE() two spaces with one space as deep as required...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Bob Hovious 24601 (11/16/2009)


    Did somebody say "googoo peanut clusters" ??

    Didn't say it, but sure as heck implied it! 🙂

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  • RE: How to store spaces in an attribute?

    Take a look at "ANSI_PADDING" in Books Online.

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  • RE: How to Query msdb for Failed Backups

    I can't think of a way to do that directly, but you could certainly query that table and compare it to a calendar of when backups are supposed to be...

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  • RE: Surely It Should Just Work?

    Elliott W (11/16/2009)


    That was an amazing analogy G.. It is just perfect..

    CEWII

    Thanks.

    I view things from an evolutionary viewpoint, and that includes tools and ideas.

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  • RE: REPLACE Multiple Spaces with One

    It's nice, but in this test, it loses by a large margin (on my desktop machine):

    if object_id(N'tempdb..#T') is null

    create table #T (

    ID int identity primary key,

    Col1 varchar(100));

    if object_id(N'tempdb..#T2') is not...

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  • RE: Need correct data type

    Yes. Depends on what you want.

    For example, if it's been 1 hour and 30 minutes, are you looking for 1.30 or for 1.5?

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  • RE: license for mirroring

    Per the Microsoft license, you can have a copy of Windows Server and SQL Server that's the same edition or lower than your production server, for a failover backup, so...

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