My apologies. I've made some security changes and removed the offending script.

Steve

I like the above advice. There are times a job is just a job. Look for a challenge elsewhere, either in technology or outside it.

If you're really bored, maybe take...

Thanks for the comments.

They don't "hold" the book for you. At least not for me. I've added stuff to my cart and then been notified that it's out of...

I'd call MS support for this. Sounds like maybe they either changed functionality or it's a bug in the SP.

select top 6 newid(), col1, col2

from table

order by newid()

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3-4M rows a day shouldn't be too bad. Are your quieries indexed? I'd start trying to optimize those, but don't make too many indexes with that many rows. 3-4 max.

If you do updates through stored procedures, make the change there. If you have updates through T-SQL and want to be sure they are captured, use a trigger.

Yes, goes as a named instance.

I've seen something similar when the secure channel between teh SQL server and the domain controller is broken. Can't authenticate. Is this a new user? Or someone that hasn't logged...

Thanks for the replies and it's interesting to read.

Luke! Send me some SQL-Beer samples and I'll get them reviewed for the site! Always on the lookout for new and interesting...

Congrats on the MS job. Let us know how it goes if you can.

I've tended to use different accounts for each server. Since you rarely set them up, it works well. Store the passwords in Password Safe or something similar and then yo...

If you have multiple statements in the task, they're each separate. When you run the proc, the temp table exists, but it should go out of scope when the proc...

You could use a subquery.

Delete from a

where a.pk not in (select b.pk from b where a.xx = b.xx)

Something like that. You'd have to work out the joins you...