Viewing 15 posts - 1,561 through 1,575 (of 13,460 total)
you are worried about something you don't need to worry about.
simply make sure they are not sysadmins.
if you create a user for your contractor, the ONLY user they can see...
Lowell
August 19, 2015 at 6:41 am
i'd be interested to know why, of course; is it because the username and password are passed around to developers? are you having trouble with people changing procs? are you...
Lowell
August 19, 2015 at 6:23 am
Janda Nel (8/19/2015)
we have a development environment with linked servers,which worked well.We had to rename the server names for reasons.Now in the one server the linked server appear...
Lowell
August 19, 2015 at 5:58 am
you can use Windows Scheduled Tasks to create regular backups for SQL Express.
it's a scripted solution, typically with a bat file that calls sqlcmd.
google points me to a lot of...
Lowell
August 18, 2015 at 1:06 pm
i found this user defined function that does the same thing:
http://www.experts-exchange.com/articles/670/DateSerial-Function-for-Microsoft-SQL-Server.html
SELECT dbo.DateSerial(Year(getdate()),6,30)
Lowell
August 18, 2015 at 12:11 pm
latingntlman (8/18/2015)
Lowell
August 18, 2015 at 11:50 am
i do something like that, where truncate and insert a bunch of ID's from an AS400 connection, which then gets stuffed into a staging table on my Source SQL Server.
then...
Lowell
August 18, 2015 at 11:18 am
also, think about any items you might have installed, whether running in the background or as a service, that are running under your credentials, maybe something like RedGate lighthouse ,...
Lowell
August 18, 2015 at 5:43 am
lyleholc (8/17/2015)
I tried to download the mthesaurs at the link provided, but got error file not found or unavailable. Is it possible you could provide a link to me?
Thank...
Lowell
August 18, 2015 at 5:35 am
both SSDT and SSDT-BI are both free add ins. they add the templates related to using SQL server database projects (SSDT) and SSIS/SSAS projects (SSDT-BI)
i believe there is a flavor...
Lowell
August 17, 2015 at 12:56 pm
no, sorry.
if the database was 150 gig at backup time, you need 150 gig of disk space to restore it, regardless of the size of the *.bak file itself.
the database...
Lowell
August 17, 2015 at 12:10 pm
i believe if you set the owner of the job as your AD account, it would work.

Lowell
August 17, 2015 at 10:22 am
taybre (8/17/2015)
GilaMonster (8/17/2015)
Look in the SQL error log (the instance you're trying to connect to). What's the full login failure message from the error log?
I've just checked the error log...
Lowell
August 17, 2015 at 6:45 am
you want to leave the column alone, without functions or conversions, so you can use any existing indexes.
instead, generate the dates the date values should be in between:
DECLARE @Date datetime...
Lowell
August 17, 2015 at 6:19 am
don't convert dates to strings! the where statement you posted ends up causing a table scan, as it converts every date to a string, which in turn gets compared to...
Lowell
August 17, 2015 at 6:08 am
Viewing 15 posts - 1,561 through 1,575 (of 13,460 total)