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  • RE: Viewing Backup Information?

    Have a look at [msdb].[dbo].[backupset] - it has a record for each backup

  • RE: Developer Privileges

    db_datawriter won't be enough. This is the equivalent of GRANT UPDATE, INSERT, DELETE on every table to the user. It will not allow creation of triggers etc

    I am...

  • RE: Log shipping for sharepoint databases in sql server 2005

    Log shipping itself will work. However, I am not sure Sharepoint will be able to use the database on the secondary server since SQL Server instance names are likely...

  • RE: DTS package error in a Query Statement

    The error you are getting suggests that you should be checking whether the SELECT statement returns anything before you try to use it (in your msgbox)....

    Been a while since I...

  • RE: New to Replication need advice on gotchas

    Database mirroring would be a good choice EXCEPT that your target is SQL 2008 and your source is SQL 2005. You can't mirror between versions of SQL Server because...

  • RE: IIF then else

    Unfortunately, the IIF statement is not as elegant as you would like. The syntax for it is quite similar to the syntax used by Excel...

    IIF (Condition, result if true,...

  • RE: number of indexes

    There is no correct answer to this without knowing what queries are being used against the table. 10 indexes may be the correct number.

    It really depends on...

  • RE: Canceling an Update Query while running

    A single statement will not update just some of the records that it would otherwise have updated if it were not cancelled, regardless of whether the sproc uses transactions. ...

  • RE: How to schedule a package in SSIS?

    I am not sure where you get your information from but ...

    - running a SSIS package from SQL Agent will not affect database operations other than the potential use of...

  • RE: Database mirroring

    The ALTER DATABASE commands that are used to change the role of each database do not require you to break or configure mirroring at all. You should not need...

  • RE: Triggers

    The problem you have is that the UPDATE function returns true if the column is mentioned in the INSERT or UPDATE statement that caused the trigger to fire regardless of...

  • RE: replicating from SQL 2000 to 2005

    You cannot connect to a SQL 2005 instance using Enterprise Manager.

    Normally, I would have the distributor as the server with the highest edition/Service pack level. This means that in...

  • RE: Adding ID columns to tables for primary key

    The integer key is but one implementation of how to get good performance. For tables that are not subject to update activity will still benefit from this strategy (or...

  • RE: Adding ID columns to tables for primary key

    For SQL Server, the general rule is to have a small montonically increasing column as the (unique) clustering key for the table - most people choose from one of...

  • RE: IIS Not required in SQL 2008 Reporting Services

    First - I am not a windows expert - I know what happens although some of the terminology on the Windows side might a a little wrong. So...

    Windows has...

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