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  • RE: Dropping Image column

    Interesting stuff...so even if the NULL bitmap should theoretically grow to accommodate a new column, it won't until some data is actually put into the specified record? Presumably the storage...

  • RE: NT SERVICE\SQLSERVERAGENT

    sqlfriends (2/14/2012)

    I remember I read before we should give minimum privilage to SQL server /agent service account.

    This now becomes confusing

    You may be confusing privileges on the host computer with privileges...

  • RE: Dropping Image column

    GilaMonster (2/14/2012)

    Adding a nullable column is the same.

    Is it possible it would have to expand the size of the NULL bitmap to accommodate the extra column, or is that always...

  • RE: Backup to network drive

    The LocalSystem account acts as the computer on the network, so if you give permissions for the computer account of the SQL server to the remote folder, SQL server should...

  • RE: VB6 Connection (going from 2000 to 2008)

    I would try running the queries you've got in your application in the database directly to see how fast they go--chances are this is a query optimisation issue thanks to...

  • RE: Read Uncommitted, locks, and transactions

    Managed to get it right by a process of elimination--the other three answers looked wrong (especially the one about TRUNCATE not being logged!), so got the right one by default!

  • RE: Old Dog, New Tricks

    As a set in my ways C programmer, I find it irritating enough that SQL overloads the = operator to mean both assignment and a test of equality (I mean,...

  • RE: Hashing

    A non-deterministic hash function wouldn't be terribly useful, would it? 😉

  • RE: billy-yons and billy-yons of rows

    Hugo Kornelis (1/20/2012)


    (Would you believe, after all of this discussion, that my largest database is 500 MB in size and lives on my laptop?)

    You're right, I did mean 16-bit unsigned...

  • RE: billy-yons and billy-yons of rows

    Hugo Kornelis (1/20/2012)


    Sounds plausible. Pages do have a page number.

    (Though I don't understand why MS would choose to use a signed integer to store page numbers; it's not as if...

  • RE: billy-yons and billy-yons of rows

    Hugo Kornelis (1/20/2012)


    I don't know the exact cause of the 16 TB limit for each file. Maybe it has to do with the structure of special pages that apply to...

  • RE: billy-yons and billy-yons of rows

    Hugo Kornelis (1/20/2012)


    with its current supported maximum database size of "only" 524,272 terabytes, it seriously falls short for this kind of challenge.

    What actually imposes that limit? It seems a kind...

  • RE: WWBOD

    GSquared (1/19/2012)

    How about a temperate island paradise? Would that be more your speed for permanent vacation?

    If such a thing exists, certainly...although, as I said above, a constant 20C all...

  • RE: WWBOD

    GSquared (1/19/2012)

    Right. But the point is that tropical islands may not be as hot as you're thinking.

    They're plenty hot enough. According to a handy reference site I just found,...

  • RE: weather we can install sql server 2008 r2 on unix machine

    Frankly you'd be better off using something that would run natively on a Unix OS (such as MySQL or Oracle)...virtualisation would work, but you'd have to splash out for a...

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