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  • RE: Delete duplicate records

    Sorry Sean, you had posted your reply while I was typing in mine, didn't mean to duplicate the effort! 😉

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  • RE: Delete duplicate records

    Can you do something simple like this or am I missing the boat on this one?

    CREATE TABLE #temp (OrderBy varchar(1), OrderDate datetime, OrderCity varchar(15))

    GO

    INSERT INTO #temp (OrderBy ,...

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  • RE: Advice on Reducing Database size

    That's a great point...I've come across this many times in our environment. Quite often we'll have an index that was created ages ago for a report that's no longer...

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  • RE: Error when trying to start a transaction from a linked server...

    I still receive the same error. From my research it would appear that by design MSSQL doesn't allow nested transactions across servers. Not 100% certain that's what I...

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  • RE: Error when trying to start a transaction from a linked server...

    Yes, they are all set up exactly the same (only differences are hardware).

    I checked out the artilcle and will see if that helps, appreciate the input...

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  • RE: How connect several progress databases with one sql linq connection.

    Are you running 32 or 64 bit?

    We create a system-level ODBC on the server (using the appropriate driver of course - in our case it's the DATADIRECT 4.0 32-bit...

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  • RE: SQL Server 2008: Help on deleting records from a large table without writing transaction log

    If you have space available on the server you're performing this on, sometimes it's easier to simply create a new table, select the data that you want to keep into...

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  • RE: Advice on Reducing Database size

    Well said Masakatsu!!!

    The first line of code starts with coffee. The last line ends with alcohol...

    😉

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  • RE: monitor free and used space

    ?

    It will accomplish exactly what you're asking for:

    1. send yourself an alert as to how much is free and (how much is used on each drive - Max space -...

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  • RE: Linked server "Catastrophic failure"; Cannot initialize the data source object of OLE DB provider "MSDASQL" for linked server "server_name"

    Thanks, I'll have to check that...

    I found an article on an MSDN blog that said something along the lines of the mySQL DLL receives a PAGE ACCESS VIOLATION and craps...

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  • RE: Issue with Database Mail

    Check with your IT / Tech Services department to make sure there's been no recent changes to the Exchange Server (assuming your company uses that), there's this nifty little setting...

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  • RE: Linked server "Catastrophic failure"; Cannot initialize the data source object of OLE DB provider "MSDASQL" for linked server "server_name"

    Did you ever get a reply on this or find a solution?

    I am experiencing a similar problem. We have a report that selects from an OPENQUERY to a mySQL...

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  • RE: monitor free and used space

    This is kind of crude code but works well and will email you every few minutes depending on how you schedule the Agent job. Create a job with this...

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  • RE: How to get the current record value and put it in parameter?

    DECLARE @Param1 varchar(50)

    SET @Param1 = (SELECT ReportName from #MyTable WHERE This = That)

    EXEC MyStoredProc @Param1

    ?

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  • RE: Reading Ad Hoc Text Files with OpenDataSource

    Did you ever get a fix for this? When attempting to do a similar thing I get the exact same error (on a 32-bit system)

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