SqlGuru... who, me? I was just illustrating the approach (I didn't declare/init @whatever, either). And yeah, use error trapping. I've used similar code in the past and it didn't appear...

To gregory.anderson-- this is a dumb question, but no cursors are involved anywhere in this process, right? You said

...first, gathers statistics based on the type of requests that come through...

I think this'll give you the same result with a lot less work:

declare @foo table (drive char(1),mbfree int)

INSERT INTO @foo EXEC master..xp_fixeddrives

IF @@rowcount = 26

SELECT '*' as drive

ELSE

SELECT TOP...

I was seeing objects in a db that were in user schemas and it took a bit to figure out why. It happened when they were not explicitly using "dbo"...

Jack Corbett (10/7/2009)

Thanks. I used to be a BETWEEN guy, but about a year ago I had a discussion here...

I thought the OP was trying to resolve a spid = -1; I poked around online and the only references to -1 spid were dealing with SQL 6.5(!)

As far as...

This repeats tracy's post a bit, but what the heck.

Both of these require Database Mail. You send the email to a defined SQL Operator; An operator CAN be a domain...

Followup and another question. We've installed SSAS 2008R2 on a test box and I've started fiddling with it but I don't see any differences that look like "big" differences. The...

You need to tell the user the status of a job (sql job name is known) that was kicked off at a known date and time. Unless there's something else...

When a co worker sent this to me I replied with

However it was found that when suitable security and data protection processes...

Your elapsed minutes calculation is wrong (plug in an elapsed time exceeding 1 hour to see). Change old to new as shown below

--old

--cast(datediff(ss,BS.backup_start_date,BS.backup_finish_date)/60 as varchar(10))

--new

cast((datediff(ss,BS.backup_start_date,BS.backup_finish_date)/60) - (datediff(ss,BS.backup_start_date,BS.backup_finish_date)/3600) *...

There's probably a better way to do this, but this should get you started. Use COLLATEs on the temp table create if needed. Probably should add an index on the...

50 deadlocks over a weekend is not insane. (It's not terrific, but not insane)

You realize you can now (>=SQL2005) trap deadlocks in your TSQL with a try/catch (hereafter TC) block,...

Please post the table definitions and the code that copies a to b

I do something similar-- but I do it daily. I don't try to restore/backup on UNCs since that can be slow and there can be reliability issues.

(I don't think linked...