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  • RE: Preventing database blocking in SQL 2000

    I'm not sure I totaly agree with you guys on processes not being able to block themselves.  A process can show up as blocking iteself when there is network or...

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  • RE: Guide as to how to go about SQL Server 2K performance tunning and optimization

    Sree, you've gotten some great advice here so far.  I only have one thing to add.  If you've been tasked with looking into performance tuning an application, a good first...

    John Rowan

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  • RE: Random lockups

    I'm not sure.  Books on line does not say this.  Microsoft's MSDN page says it is new to SP3: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa214020(SQL.80).aspx

     

    John Rowan

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  • RE: Random lockups

    It is an executable that gets installed with SQL Server.  It will be in your SQL Server installation directory's Binn folder.  Just run SQLDiag.exe.  It takes just a minute or...

    John Rowan

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  • RE: Random lockups

    I would also recommend that you run SQLDiag at the time of freeze up.  This will help determine blocking/locking issues and wait types as well as much other useful info.

    John Rowan

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  • RE: DTS reading from Excel file

    I don't know if you can read the column names in via ActiveX, but there may be a way that I am not aware of.  What about using the data...

    John Rowan

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  • RE: Inserting Only Unique Records

    You mean if the duplicates are not limited to the 5 columns and instead we have to check all 60 columns?  In that case, you must scale out the GROUP...

    John Rowan

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  • RE: DTS reading from Excel file

    There may be a better way, but here's what I would start with. 

    1. Create 2 staging tables, one for the Quantity data and one for the Price data.

    2. Import the...

    John Rowan

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  • RE: Inserting Only Unique Records

    You say that 5 of the columns define the uniqueness.  I assume then since you have a duplicate row that there is not a constraint of any kind here to...

    John Rowan

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  • RE: Dealing with fragmentation

    http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/sql/2000/maintain/ss2kidbp.mspx

     

    According to Microsoft, you should not be concerned with fragmentation levels of indexes...

    John Rowan

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  • RE: Troubleshoot Error 701 on SQL 2k

    Well, if you look in BOL, error 701 says:

    There is insufficient system memory to run this query.

     

    Can you tell us a bit more about your environment (Windows OS, SQL Server...

    John Rowan

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  • RE: Is there a memory size limit in SQL Agent?

    So does the job actually fail or does it just appear hung?  If it does fail, what is the failure message?  If it just appears hung, have you looked at...

    John Rowan

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  • RE: Users getting timeouts

    I don't think this is a protocol issue.  Especially if you've had a significant increase in your storage requirements.  Timeouts occur because a process is taking too long (big duh,...

    John Rowan

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  • RE: Help with Error Trapping

    I think we need a bit more info here.  Can you post your table DDL, sample data, and an example of what you want to have happen.  What determines which...

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  • RE: Output of one command as input to another command

    Insert results from xp_Fixeddrives into a temp table as such:

    CREATE TABLE #DriveTable (Drive CHAR(1), [MB Free] int)

    INSERT INTO #DriveTable

    EXEC master..xp_fixeddrives

    SELECT *

    FROM #DriveTable

    DROP TABLE #DriveTable

     

    Now, use t-sql to query the...

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