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  • Reply To: Why am I getting a "Incorrect syntax near '@tblName' error message?

    Be sure you set and are using the correct variable.  In your original code, you use "@tblName" but you never set the value of that variable.  That's why I used...

    SQL DBA,SQL Server MVP(07, 08, 09) "It's a dog-eat-dog world, and I'm wearing Milk-Bone underwear." "Norm", on "Cheers". Also from "Cheers", from "Carla": "You need to know 3 things about Tortelli men: Tortelli men draw women like flies; Tortelli men treat women like flies; Tortelli men's brains are in their flies".

  • Reply To: Why am I getting a "Incorrect syntax near '@tblName' error message?

    You can't use a variable in a DROP TABLE statement in SQL.

    Change it to:

    SET @dropCommand = N'DROP TABLE dbo.' + @tableName

    SQL DBA,SQL Server MVP(07, 08, 09) "It's a dog-eat-dog world, and I'm wearing Milk-Bone underwear." "Norm", on "Cheers". Also from "Cheers", from "Carla": "You need to know 3 things about Tortelli men: Tortelli men draw women like flies; Tortelli men treat women like flies; Tortelli men's brains are in their flies".

  • Reply To: 64KB and 32KB cluster size for log drives and tempdb

    SQL data files could in theory gain from 64K cluster size, since SQL often writes data in 64K chunks.

    SQL log files are different, so 32K should be just fine for...

    SQL DBA,SQL Server MVP(07, 08, 09) "It's a dog-eat-dog world, and I'm wearing Milk-Bone underwear." "Norm", on "Cheers". Also from "Cheers", from "Carla": "You need to know 3 things about Tortelli men: Tortelli men draw women like flies; Tortelli men treat women like flies; Tortelli men's brains are in their flies".

  • Reply To: Index Update Reports - Scans/Seeks

    If you issued an UPDATE against an empty table, the UPDATE counter would still increment.

    Maybe that's what happened?

    SQL DBA,SQL Server MVP(07, 08, 09) "It's a dog-eat-dog world, and I'm wearing Milk-Bone underwear." "Norm", on "Cheers". Also from "Cheers", from "Carla": "You need to know 3 things about Tortelli men: Tortelli men draw women like flies; Tortelli men treat women like flies; Tortelli men's brains are in their flies".

  • Reply To: How to calculate potential IO benefits of changes

    (1) more RAM (if you have only 300GB for SQL Server)

    (2) do you (page) compress the data?

    SQL DBA,SQL Server MVP(07, 08, 09) "It's a dog-eat-dog world, and I'm wearing Milk-Bone underwear." "Norm", on "Cheers". Also from "Cheers", from "Carla": "You need to know 3 things about Tortelli men: Tortelli men draw women like flies; Tortelli men treat women like flies; Tortelli men's brains are in their flies".

  • Reply To: Can you pass an undeclared variable to a Stored Procedure

    The @p_iType is declared in the called proc as a parameter.

    SQL DBA,SQL Server MVP(07, 08, 09) "It's a dog-eat-dog world, and I'm wearing Milk-Bone underwear." "Norm", on "Cheers". Also from "Cheers", from "Carla": "You need to know 3 things about Tortelli men: Tortelli men draw women like flies; Tortelli men treat women like flies; Tortelli men's brains are in their flies".

  • Reply To: Searching for the Assumed Full Backup

    Correct.  How would SQL ever know you've deleted the backup file?  It doesn't know, shouldn't know and shouldn't care.

    I don't use maintenance plans (I'm a DBA, we use scripts), but...

    SQL DBA,SQL Server MVP(07, 08, 09) "It's a dog-eat-dog world, and I'm wearing Milk-Bone underwear." "Norm", on "Cheers". Also from "Cheers", from "Carla": "You need to know 3 things about Tortelli men: Tortelli men draw women like flies; Tortelli men treat women like flies; Tortelli men's brains are in their flies".

  • Reply To: Searching for the Assumed Full Backup

    Yes, that's it, that's all that's required.   The full could have been a month (or whatever) ago for all SQL cares.  It's up to you to keep any backups you...

    SQL DBA,SQL Server MVP(07, 08, 09) "It's a dog-eat-dog world, and I'm wearing Milk-Bone underwear." "Norm", on "Cheers". Also from "Cheers", from "Carla": "You need to know 3 things about Tortelli men: Tortelli men draw women like flies; Tortelli men treat women like flies; Tortelli men's brains are in their flies".

  • Reply To: Searching for the Assumed Full Backup

    3.  SQL doesn't "know" you've deleted the backup file.  Otherwise you could use it as a base.  SQL will assume, reasonably enough, that if you take a full backup and...

    SQL DBA,SQL Server MVP(07, 08, 09) "It's a dog-eat-dog world, and I'm wearing Milk-Bone underwear." "Norm", on "Cheers". Also from "Cheers", from "Carla": "You need to know 3 things about Tortelli men: Tortelli men draw women like flies; Tortelli men treat women like flies; Tortelli men's brains are in their flies".

  • Reply To: Searching for the Assumed Full Backup

    1 NO

    2 It isn't.  Multiple types of file can be sent a single physical file in SQL Server backups.

    3 Look for the last full ('D') backup immediately preceding the 'I'...

    SQL DBA,SQL Server MVP(07, 08, 09) "It's a dog-eat-dog world, and I'm wearing Milk-Bone underwear." "Norm", on "Cheers". Also from "Cheers", from "Carla": "You need to know 3 things about Tortelli men: Tortelli men draw women like flies; Tortelli men treat women like flies; Tortelli men's brains are in their flies".

  • Reply To: OLA's Maintenance scripts - should I be reorganizing?

    Only do ONLINE rebuild if you really need it.  It has additional overhead and is often not quite as efficient as packing data rows.

    Data (page) compression is a great tool...

    SQL DBA,SQL Server MVP(07, 08, 09) "It's a dog-eat-dog world, and I'm wearing Milk-Bone underwear." "Norm", on "Cheers". Also from "Cheers", from "Carla": "You need to know 3 things about Tortelli men: Tortelli men draw women like flies; Tortelli men treat women like flies; Tortelli men's brains are in their flies".

  • Reply To: SSIS Visual Studio 2022: Trying to avoid linked servers using SSIS

    I suggest not working with partial days.  Therefore, I suggest changing the first query to:

    SELECT * FROM dbo.SQL_SOURCE WHERE Mod_Date >= CAST(CAST(Getdate() AS date) AS datetime) -5

    SQL DBA,SQL Server MVP(07, 08, 09) "It's a dog-eat-dog world, and I'm wearing Milk-Bone underwear." "Norm", on "Cheers". Also from "Cheers", from "Carla": "You need to know 3 things about Tortelli men: Tortelli men draw women like flies; Tortelli men treat women like flies; Tortelli men's brains are in their flies".

  • Reply To: Prevent overwriting of a database while Restoring manually

    I think there should be an explicit "NO REPLACE" option, but MS doesn't have it.

    Instead, you can check for the db exiting before you issue the RESTORE DATABASE command:

    IF EXIST(SELECT...

    SQL DBA,SQL Server MVP(07, 08, 09) "It's a dog-eat-dog world, and I'm wearing Milk-Bone underwear." "Norm", on "Cheers". Also from "Cheers", from "Carla": "You need to know 3 things about Tortelli men: Tortelli men draw women like flies; Tortelli men treat women like flies; Tortelli men's brains are in their flies".

  • Reply To: Return string between parentheses

    SELECT
    UserGroup.[Name]As GroupName,
    UserGroup.[Description]As GroupDescription,
    Domain
    FROM [dbo].[UserGroup]
    CROSS APPLY (
    SELECT NULLIF(CHARINDEX('(', Name), 0) AS start_of_substring,
    ISNULL(NULLIF(CHARINDEX(')', Name), 0), LEN(Name) + 1) AS end_of_substring
    ) AS ca1
    CROSS APPLY (
    SELECT...

    SQL DBA,SQL Server MVP(07, 08, 09) "It's a dog-eat-dog world, and I'm wearing Milk-Bone underwear." "Norm", on "Cheers". Also from "Cheers", from "Carla": "You need to know 3 things about Tortelli men: Tortelli men draw women like flies; Tortelli men treat women like flies; Tortelli men's brains are in their flies".

  • Reply To: Return string between parentheses

     

    DROP TABLE IF EXISTS #data;
    CREATE TABLE #data ( string varchar(8000) NULL );
    INSERT INTO #data VALUES( 'Domain Administrators (abc.domain.com) Group Members'),
    ('Engineering Supervisors (xyz.domain.com)...

    SQL DBA,SQL Server MVP(07, 08, 09) "It's a dog-eat-dog world, and I'm wearing Milk-Bone underwear." "Norm", on "Cheers". Also from "Cheers", from "Carla": "You need to know 3 things about Tortelli men: Tortelli men draw women like flies; Tortelli men treat women like flies; Tortelli men's brains are in their flies".

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