What's first? You need an order to determine that.

You can select top 1 ... order by xxx as a subselect and then use that as the update.

for multiple rows it...

I'd second the vote for Inside SQL Server - Query Tuning.

Colin,

If you want to post it here, we'd love to publish it on the site.

What is the execution plan and what are the types/indexes on?

Need more information.

There's always work being done and I'm sure we'll see more enhancements to SQL to handle common tasks as it evolves.

I think SQL works great, but there are always things...

Jack has the best idea. Any network hiccup will cause the backup to fail. Run it to the local server and then copy it to your hard drive.

filegrowth takes effect when the database runs out of space, not when the server is started.

What exactly do you have?

Full backup on: __/__/2008?

Log Backup?

When was the table deleted?

What has been done since the table was deleted.

I don't think there's one to do this per table.

You could use SQLTrace to do this. What's the intention? See a level of activity per table?

You should not index ALL the fields. That will slow down your updates/inserts/deletes.

You want to include indexes on those fields which are mostly used for queries. If you have two...

Backup / restore is dirt simple and there is no downtime. I'm not sure why that would not be optimum.

The copy db wizard is flaky, and I do not recommend...

Another vote for BCP. Works wonderfully for me.

AFAIK, the data in the publication HAS to be the same to start replication. You need to either do that with a snapshot, db backup/restore, or manually ensuring the data...

It's half a day if they have time. I've worked with clients and they schedule out work, so they don't necessarily have time to dedicate right away. They might have...

It should work fine the way you are doing it. I think you might need to stop both nodes to get this to work and prevent failover.

Can you note what worked? Did the line count work?

You could just import the file into one large table, single column, and then count the rows.