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  • RE: Upgrading from 2008 SP2/SP3 in a large replicated environmnt

    Has anyone else been through this?

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  • RE: Unable to create folder if present already in a share path

    I created a simple scalar function that checks if the folder exists, if it doesn't it creates it - it depends on Jeff Moden's awesome function DelimitedSplit8K, but you can...

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  • RE: SSRS Report Permission

    sheba.sql (6/3/2015)


    I have Credentials stored in the report for the Data source and also i am using a select statement in the report not calling any store procedure. User is...

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  • RE: Replication Error

    That depends on many factors. Not sure "how long" but you can find out how large the snapshot for the tables will be by running something like:

    SELECT pubname...

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  • RE: Backup process won't die!

    Out of sheer curiosity; is the backup being done by a 3rd party tool like BackPro, SQSafe, or Lightspeed, etc?

    If so, you'll need to kill the actual thread using something...

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  • RE: SSIS packages to run DR server

    I store all my SSIS packages in a local folder on each server (I do not deploy them to the package store)...so I can set them up in the Agent...

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  • RE: Replication Error

    Is your subscriber online? Or are there any processes blocking your distributor sessions?

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  • RE: Profile logical reads versus STATISTICS IO

    Gail, looks like you hit the nail on the head...

    In looking through the reporting procedure I did notice a TVF being called (although it really looks harmless and has a...

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  • RE: Profile logical reads versus STATISTICS IO

    @Grant - yes it's production (reporting) - and typically I don't do it either but wanted a comparison (its strictly troubleshooting only as I'm not overly familiar with extended events...

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  • RE: Legal/illegal characters in table name

    This assumes that you have a schema in the database named "tmp" otherwise it fails because the schema does not exist.

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  • RE: Not throwing proper error.

    I was expecting the raise error function to be thrown if the option was not provided correctly. It only printed the message in the ELSE block.

    Can you help me understand...

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  • RE: SQL Agent Replciation Job limit

    I'm not entirely sure this will help but found this article [https://ask.sqlservercentral.com/questions/24486/replication-limit-on-number-of-push-subsciptions.html] - I don't think there's an exact limit as much as there's a threshold with "load"

    -Hope it helps!

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  • RE: Not throwing proper error.

    I have written a custom script to rebuild index. But if users choose wrong choice, it is supposed to throw a specific error msg which it does not do.

    Please help...

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  • RE: Capture CREATE, DROP, ALTER from the default SQL trace file

    Interesting! I have no experienced this issue.

    It could be that you're filling up your files faster than the job is able to pull them out...so it's getting overwritten before...

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  • RE: OSQL - Hanging or Slow not sure

    How large is the dataset being returned? Not saying the network is to blame but returning data locally will always be faster than retrieving it through a linked server...

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