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  • RE: Packaged-Application Database Nightmares - A Horror Story.

    You had me up until the point when management began listening to the DBA. After years of being proved right in the end, I still have to fight with...

    Gordon Pollokoff

    Wile E. is my reality, Bugs Bunny is my goal - Chuck Jones
    Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen. - E. Berard
    Doing more things faster is no substitute for doing the right things. - S. R. Covey
    Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature.- R. Kulawiec

  • RE: Liberating the DBA from SQL Authentication with AD Groups

    I happen to use AD groups for security for all database users. However, I cannot eliminate SQL Logins because we have too many vendor applications that require the use...

    Gordon Pollokoff

    Wile E. is my reality, Bugs Bunny is my goal - Chuck Jones
    Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen. - E. Berard
    Doing more things faster is no substitute for doing the right things. - S. R. Covey
    Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature.- R. Kulawiec

  • RE: SQL Agent will not start

    I've tried both, unsuccessfully.

    Gordon Pollokoff

    Wile E. is my reality, Bugs Bunny is my goal - Chuck Jones
    Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen. - E. Berard
    Doing more things faster is no substitute for doing the right things. - S. R. Covey
    Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature.- R. Kulawiec

  • RE: SQL Agent will not start

    Enterprise Edition. Agent was working until we changed the service account.

    Gordon Pollokoff

    Wile E. is my reality, Bugs Bunny is my goal - Chuck Jones
    Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen. - E. Berard
    Doing more things faster is no substitute for doing the right things. - S. R. Covey
    Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature.- R. Kulawiec

  • RE: SQL Agent will not start

    Thank you for your response. However, the KB refers to SQL Server 2008 or SQL Server 2008R2 and I am having this issue with SQL Server 2012 SP2.

    Gordon Pollokoff

    Wile E. is my reality, Bugs Bunny is my goal - Chuck Jones
    Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen. - E. Berard
    Doing more things faster is no substitute for doing the right things. - S. R. Covey
    Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature.- R. Kulawiec

  • RE: Clarification on SARGable predicates

    The question was more for general knowledge. The actual query is coming from vendor software, resulting in a large number of deadlocks. Unfortunately, I can't change the query...

    Gordon Pollokoff

    Wile E. is my reality, Bugs Bunny is my goal - Chuck Jones
    Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen. - E. Berard
    Doing more things faster is no substitute for doing the right things. - S. R. Covey
    Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature.- R. Kulawiec

  • RE: Clarification on SARGable predicates

    You are correct. Using IS NULL does result in a SARGable predicate. Must be something with the data that is making it use a clustered index scan when...

    Gordon Pollokoff

    Wile E. is my reality, Bugs Bunny is my goal - Chuck Jones
    Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen. - E. Berard
    Doing more things faster is no substitute for doing the right things. - S. R. Covey
    Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature.- R. Kulawiec

  • RE: Deadlocking Updates

    It is the table I detailed.

    Gordon Pollokoff

    Wile E. is my reality, Bugs Bunny is my goal - Chuck Jones
    Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen. - E. Berard
    Doing more things faster is no substitute for doing the right things. - S. R. Covey
    Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature.- R. Kulawiec

  • RE: Deadlocking Updates

    Full table DDL, including indexes and trigger definitions

    CREATE TABLE [dbo].[lead_ext_attributes]

    (

    [lead_id] [INT] NOT NULL

    , [ExtValue11541] [NVARCHAR](100) NULL

    ...

    Gordon Pollokoff

    Wile E. is my reality, Bugs Bunny is my goal - Chuck Jones
    Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen. - E. Berard
    Doing more things faster is no substitute for doing the right things. - S. R. Covey
    Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature.- R. Kulawiec

  • RE: Deadlocking Updates

    <deadlock-list>

    <deadlock victim="processde6c988">

    <process-list>

    <process id="processde6c988" taskpriority="0" logused="276" waitresource="OBJECT: 5:1913773875:3 " waittime="100" ownerId="15379852" transactionname="user_transaction" lasttranstarted="2014-07-07T20:36:51.157" XDES="0x800d2ff0" lockMode="X" schedulerid="11" kpid="1820" status="suspended" spid="72" sbid="0" ecid="0" priority="0" trancount="2" lastbatchstarted="2014-07-07T20:36:51.057" lastbatchcompleted="2014-07-07T20:36:51.057"...

    Gordon Pollokoff

    Wile E. is my reality, Bugs Bunny is my goal - Chuck Jones
    Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen. - E. Berard
    Doing more things faster is no substitute for doing the right things. - S. R. Covey
    Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature.- R. Kulawiec

  • RE: Unique Indexes Are Code; Non-Unique Indexes Are Data

    I think Daniel does raise some interesting points. I regularly track missing indexes and unused indexes to see if any indexes need to be created or dropped. I...

    Gordon Pollokoff

    Wile E. is my reality, Bugs Bunny is my goal - Chuck Jones
    Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen. - E. Berard
    Doing more things faster is no substitute for doing the right things. - S. R. Covey
    Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature.- R. Kulawiec

  • RE: SQLServerCentral apologizes and you can win a book

    I am often amazed by the number of people who will plagiarize another's work merely to create a blog post or comment. I find this most often when someone...

    Gordon Pollokoff

    Wile E. is my reality, Bugs Bunny is my goal - Chuck Jones
    Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen. - E. Berard
    Doing more things faster is no substitute for doing the right things. - S. R. Covey
    Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature.- R. Kulawiec

  • RE: Adding a node to a cluster

    Thanks all. Your answers confirmed what I believed to be correct.

    Gordon Pollokoff

    Wile E. is my reality, Bugs Bunny is my goal - Chuck Jones
    Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen. - E. Berard
    Doing more things faster is no substitute for doing the right things. - S. R. Covey
    Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature.- R. Kulawiec

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