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  • RE: Import Access 2010 db to SQL Server

    Under Choose Data Source, use Microsoft Office 12.0 Access Database Engine OLE DB Provider - "Microsoft Access" is for Office versions lower than 2007

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  • RE: How to find cause of Replication delay?

    Have you tried inserting a tracer token to verify where the delay is actually occurring?

    You can also create custom alerts (in your SQL Server Agent >> Alerts) via the SSMS,...

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  • RE: Negative Available Space for tempdb

    This happened on a couple of our servers before and while I can't remember the exact issue (it is typically related to autogrowth of the database files(s)), I remember this...

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  • RE: Replication???

    Per BOL (see if any of these are true for your situation) - maybe this table has an FK relationship to another table? Or you have CDC enabled?

    If that...

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  • RE: Replication???

    "Dropping transactional replication" - exactly what did you drop? Just the publication? Subscription?

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  • RE: Replication???

    As far as I know it's not a bug, it's by design - If any table/article is included in any active publication, then it cannot be truncated. From BOL...

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  • RE: Linked server

    This should help - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms188279.aspx

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  • RE: Performance Tuning Question

    Thanks for the clarification Gail, I missed the != when I was editing it 🙂

    Regarding the DISTINCT, yep, always test. As we all know what works great for a...

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  • RE: Performance Tuning Question

    Okay. FYI the reason I asked about the data type for that column is because if it were a numeric data type and you placed quotes around it (effectively...

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  • RE: Performance Tuning Question

    To answer your questions:

    1. Merge Join - OK. For more info, check out this great article[/url] by Gail Shaw

    2. The distinct forces SQL to go through all your results,...

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  • RE: How to update multiple tables in sql server 2008 ?

    No you cannot do this. Ref BOL here

    The view referenced by table_or_view_name must be updatable and reference exactly one base table in the FROM clause of the view

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  • RE: Retrieving the T-SQL command syntax for a full and differential backup within a maintenance plan

    Create a duplicate maintenance plan for both the full and diff, then script it out, delete the duplicate plan OR you could just script it out yourself? 😉

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  • RE: Duties of a DBA

    @ Jeff 😀

    I believe you meant this - to the OP, this link will help greatly!

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  • RE: Execution Plan - Key Lookup

    Bhuvnesh (3/5/2013)


    In simple words.

    Key/RID lookup means Non-clustered index is not covering all the participated columns in one query for one particular table. so optimizer choose the heap(RID) or clustered index(Key)...

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  • RE: Execution Plan - Key Lookup

    Forgive my wording here...But you got the index seek on IX_Contact_EmailAddress because I assume you created the NCI for "EmailAddress" and ContactID only. To get this data SQL has...

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