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  • RE: Access to SQL Agent Jobs

    Have your System/Domain admin create a security group in Active Directory and add in all the developers who should have this ability. Once that's created, add that group as...

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  • RE: Execution Plans: Key Lookup = Add Index

    Is there a better cost/ratio by adding a column(s) to the index versus including them?

    I've sometimes noticed the index will grow considerably larger by adding columns, but less when the...

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  • RE: Create a linked server into MS Access which reside in the remote Server.

    Try setting up a system DSN driver first through ODBC on the server itself at the OS level, then create the linked server using the DSN from what you just...

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  • RE: Executing an identical procedure at the exact same time

    Transaction or no, nothing is stopping both from selecting the same value from the table in the first statement

    Gail, in your test yes this is true, however in the...

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  • RE: Executing an identical procedure at the exact same time

    They they ran (on 8 different tries) from 10-15 seconds

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  • RE: Executing an identical procedure at the exact same time

    FYI, the memory and CPU don't really move much during these reporting execution times...the CPU hovers around 30%, and the memory stays even. The disk reads spike up to...

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  • RE: Executing an identical procedure at the exact same time

    I tried the test but they still didn't execute at the same time:

    Window 1:

    WAITFOR TIME '13:42:00:000'

    SELECT GETDATE()

    -- exec reporting procedure here

    Returns: 2011-08-11 13:42:00.003

    Window 2:

    WAITFOR TIME '13:42:00:000'

    SELECT...

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  • RE: Third PArty Tool for SQL Server Monitoring and alert emails

    I use SQL Diagnostic Manager (Idera) and it works quite well. I like the historical views and the fact that it basically has every PerfMon you could ever...

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  • RE: Question about and UPDATE to a table, while DELETE's occur against older data (pruning)

    Thanks so much for these tips!

    I've already made sure the index was there but about putting a WAITFOR in there or placing them on separate spindles (makes perfect sense now...

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  • RE: Separate a String

    Thanks, I will look at replacing ours with this nifty code!

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  • RE: Separate a String

    How about something like this?

    Create a function to handle the parsing you need, then just call it when doing the INSERTS

    Create scalar function

    USE [F1Settings]

    GO

    /****** Object: UserDefinedFunction [dbo].[fx_FormatArrayText] ...

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  • RE: Sychronizing a live database to 3 sites: Possible? Worthwhile?

    In that case,IMO you're going to be limited to using a custom solution than anything you'll find out of the box...

    I'd try pitching the centralized database idea...If that's not possible...

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  • RE: Sychronizing a live database to 3 sites: Possible? Worthwhile?

    Are you looking to sync all three databases back to each other or simply back to a centralized DB (sorry if I'm not reading your original post correctly)?

    If you're only...

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  • RE: DBCC SHRINKDATABASE / Transaction Logging Confusion...

    How are your drives set up? Are they single drives? Raided? How are your SQL DB files placed on the drives?

    It's difficult to say what's going on here without...

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  • RE: CXPACKET wait types...

    Wow.

    Such a simplistic approach and the never-ending procedure completed in 7 minutes and 40 seconds. I added the MAXDOP and PAGLOCK, and reduced the batch size to 5000...

    SELECT *,...

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