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  • RE: SQL 6.5 and Y2K

    Had to really dig through the cob webs on this one. Great piece of trivia:rolleyes:

    Steve Jimmo
    Sr DBA
    “If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a Nation gone under." - Ronald Reagan

  • RE: How many partitions?

    Question is terrible!

    Took a guess because the error that should have come up was not listed, so had to guess.

    Had you at least tested your QOD before posting it,...

    Steve Jimmo
    Sr DBA
    “If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a Nation gone under." - Ronald Reagan

  • RE: Use of IDENTITY_INSERT?

    Good question, thanks

    Steve Jimmo
    Sr DBA
    “If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a Nation gone under." - Ronald Reagan

  • RE: Round up or down II

    Hugo, very good question.

    Reading my question now, many weeks after submitting it, I am wondering if I even should have written it like this - QotD should test SQL understanding,...

    Steve Jimmo
    Sr DBA
    “If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a Nation gone under." - Ronald Reagan

  • RE: Index Types

    Also, to use Paul Randall's method from a couple of weeks ago - this is for my point I lost

    Steve Jimmo
    Sr DBA
    “If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a Nation gone under." - Ronald Reagan

  • RE: Index Types

    I must add my own .02 to this thread. I to come up with the correct answer being wrong. Using the reference given, I see that some of the indexes...

    Steve Jimmo
    Sr DBA
    “If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a Nation gone under." - Ronald Reagan

  • RE: Changing the Agent service account.

    What level of authority does the new startup login have?

    Steve Jimmo
    Sr DBA
    “If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a Nation gone under." - Ronald Reagan

  • RE: Suspect Database

    Yes Gail, but in Africa if you want to maintain the business, you have to be prepared for this situation (accepts blaims).

    I am confused. Contractually, are you responsible for the...

    Steve Jimmo
    Sr DBA
    “If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a Nation gone under." - Ronald Reagan

  • RE: Suspect Database

    That is truely a great attitude. Did they understand what needed to be done to maintain the database as well as the consequences if they didn't?

    Steve Jimmo
    Sr DBA
    “If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a Nation gone under." - Ronald Reagan

  • RE: Suspect Database

    River - First it sounds like as Paul stated the database is corrupted or possibly you are not on the same version of SQL Server as the customer. Have you...

    Steve Jimmo
    Sr DBA
    “If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a Nation gone under." - Ronald Reagan

  • RE: order of rows during bulk insert

    I may be a bit slow on this, and am not going to be as adament on it as Dave, who has been having this very same arguments for a...

    Steve Jimmo
    Sr DBA
    “If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a Nation gone under." - Ronald Reagan

  • RE: order of rows during bulk insert

    Not on a simple select *

    Unless possibly there is a problem with the statistics on the clustered index.

    Steve Jimmo
    Sr DBA
    “If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a Nation gone under." - Ronald Reagan

  • RE: order of rows during bulk insert

    That's not what you said though. Here is what you said:

    "If there is a clustered index on the table it will return the data in the order of the PK."

    I...

    Steve Jimmo
    Sr DBA
    “If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a Nation gone under." - Ronald Reagan

  • RE: order of rows during bulk insert

    The original comment was about records being loaded using bcp into a table with no PK or other indexing, and adding it after. (This was my original comment to...

    Steve Jimmo
    Sr DBA
    “If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a Nation gone under." - Ronald Reagan

  • RE: order of rows during bulk insert

    one more example:

    Removing the PK from the id field, and placing it on your x field returned the following:

    x z...

    Steve Jimmo
    Sr DBA
    “If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a Nation gone under." - Ronald Reagan

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