If I understand correctly, the license_message table has a:

clus index (/PK) on license_message_id

nonclus index on archive_date

<other nonclus...

Here's my version (everybody's got their own version :-)). It provides MB totals for each table, each table and all its indexes, total number of indexes per table and...

Please try my last posted version.

It includes a check to avoid updating those rows that already have the value that would be assigned.

@scott: By best practice you never store your unencryption mechanisms and your data in the same place. Admittedly, there are times when you may need to work with the data...

I suggest looking into SQL's existing EncryptByKey and DecryptByKey functions.

I disagree with the idea that encryption/decryption can be left to the app. Because you may want to work with...

No, but tableB provides a lookup table to get the value with which to update the other table. ...

My best (educated) guess based on what you've posted so far is:

A filtered index on ISAPPLIEDFORSPECIFICDAYS = 1, including the daily columns.

That index may or may not help -- you'd...

Since tableB already has that index, I suggest changing its definition to also contain the acct_nbr and the bit flag. Then...

So much for a UNIQUE Clustered Index and the performance that will offer.

The way around this problem is to determine what makes each row UNIQUE in your table while considering...

The DBCC SHRINKDATABASE() will shrink the log file also, so you don't need to do it separately; thus, you can just comment out the "DBCC SHRINKFILE".

You can specify a batchsize for a bulk load, and SQL then commits every time after that many rows are loaded (obviously you definitely want to specify a batchsize for...

As for the restore, it's very easy to create a script to have SQL restore the last backup of a db.

Maybe, then you could also do this:

select

a.* -- to save time, should define all columns you want to return

from

dbo.Appointments a

...

I think this will do it:

WHERE

DIAG1 NOT LIKE 'C[0-8][0-9]%' AND

DIAG1 NOT LIKE 'C9[0-7]%' AND

DIAG1 NOT LIKE 'D3[7-9]%'...

I strongly suspect you will want to see more details on the last appointment than just the date:

SELECT

CustomerId, AppointmentDate, ...

FROM (

SELECT *,...