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  • RE: Maintenance Plan Best Practice

    It was being backed up regularly (once per hour) and was regularly defragged. I don't recall exactly what I was doing to the database but the application accessing the database,...

  • RE: Maintenance Plan Best Practice

    Steve Jones - Editor (6/25/2008)


    DO NOT shrink.

    What about shrinking the logs? I never shrink my databases but once per week, when I run the maintenance on my databases, my logs...

  • RE: ALL

    Well, I got caught by the collation thing as well. When I looked at the expression and the values to test, I did go review an ASCII chart before answering....

  • RE: The Multiple Instance Dilemna

    For a small number of servers, I use the same username/password for all. It is too much of a pain to keep track of a different password for each server....

  • RE: Conditional Split

    I answered my own question here. With the data flows linked to the next Execute SQL task, nothing ran past the first data flow task. I removed the links from...

  • RE: 2005 SQL Agent strange problem

    I have always used the Notifications on my jobs to send me a message when the job failed. It seems your setup should be working fine but I'm wondering why...

  • RE: SAN Storage

    TheSQLGuru (6/26/2008)


    I would like to add that it has been my experience that SAN vendor consultants know VERY little about how to optimally configure a SAN for SQL Server storage...

  • RE: Conditional Split

    One final question and I think I have this thing done. I have it working for one of our three banks as follows:

    1. Does the record count in an Execute...

  • RE: Conditional Split

    crever (6/25/2008)


    That's almost exactly what I said... whatever...

    Sorry, I wasn't seeing the forest for the trees when I read your initial post. I was focused on keeping everything inside the...

  • RE: Conditional Split

    Makes perfect sense. Now I just have to figure out how to make it work - to the books! I'll be back if I can't figure it out.

    Thanks!

  • RE: Scary Questions

    AndyD (6/25/2008)


    There are also lots of trained DBAs who are disturbingly bad at their job, but that's a slightly different issue.

    Interesting point. I am a "trained DBA" and am very...

  • RE: Conditional Split

    So, I will actually have to have two data flow tasks in the control flow? The first to do the rowcount and populate a package scope variable and the second...

  • RE: Scary Questions

    I guess you could say I was one of those who fell into the title 11 years ago. I was hired to do application support but the role changed as...

  • RE: Conditional Split

    How do I add an expression inside the data flow task? It appears I can only add the expression in the control flow of the package and the rowcount transformation...

  • RE: Conditional Split

    Almost but not completely. I actually have three data flow tasks in this package so it seems that if I do a count and then don't proceed if the count...

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