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  • RE: Enable/Disable Logging of Specific Error Codes

    This should already be automatically logged to the SQL Server Error log. How are you executing this UPDATE statement? If you could, please post the update TSQL and...

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  • RE: How fast can I know that the server is going down or is down

    Best practices? It depends. Perhaps use a 3rd party software like centreon/nagios, or RedGate SQL Monitor, or Idera free admin tool (all would work).

    For options 1 and 3 you...

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  • RE: SQL Replication alerting

    Alerts set up via the manager don't always set up correctly (at least in my experience) so I suggest scripting them out and ensuring you have the @shouldalert set to...

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  • RE: Issue sql server query and restart windows service

    Powershell?

    What query are you attempting to run? And are you asking to restart a windows service on an external machine via TSQL?

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  • RE: Connect Issue

    Check that the firewall is enabled on the Windows 7 machine (by default it is). It may be blocking port 1433. Also please check the Event viewer logs and...

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  • RE: Bcp question

    Yes. If you use the queryout option and use union all to link a column list with the actual content.bcp "SELECT 'col1', 'col2', 'col3' U NION ALL SELECT col1,...

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  • RE: shrink logfile in replication

    FYI, in its simplest form

    USE [DATABASE]

    GO

    DBCC SHRINKFILE (N'Database_log' , 0)

    GO

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  • RE: shrink logfile in replication

    Please review this similar post, it will give you a script to accomplish what you want and outline some things to think about before you actually make a decision to...

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  • RE: Database Refresh

    Correct. You can change the names of the database and files during the restore process

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  • RE: Working with stored text file in TSQL

    In binary form or the actual character string of contents from within the text file?

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  • RE: Database Refresh

    Installing a different instance shouldn't matter as it'd be SERVER\DEV and SERVER\QA

    You could keep the same database names as well, and wouldn't need to change the database name during restores

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  • RE: Excessive amount of Virtual Log files?!

    It is my understanding that your VLFS have gotten so high because of potential autogrowth in your transaction log(s) over time. Depending on the size of your database, 1000...

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  • RE: Stop job as failure

    While I don't recommend or endorse this, you could add a job step that has a SELECT 1/0 in it (that never actually gets run, the prior step would report...

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  • RE: Stop job as failure

    The only thing I can think of is to stop the job and update the status in msdb to reflect an error, but how that would actually work with the...

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  • RE: Steps to tune a specific query

    Great points! Also, if the query suddenly started performing poorly first you start with your execution plan, but you would also want to check to see if your statistics...

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