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  • RE: Change to Restore with No recovery

    Short answer: No.

    Long answer: When you go through recovery, you apply roll forward and rollback. There's no mechanism to undo these things. A Standby file allows tracking of these items...

  • RE: How do you manage your junior DBA

    S7 (8/10/2016)


    Thanks, Operational dba. The person didn't have a dba background but came from application support. I'm a senior DBA and the person was hired to help me. Doesn't report...

  • RE: Keyboard Hardlines

    GlennB (8/10/2016)


    "Actually, I think this is an issue, especially in large companies that may regularly hire consultants. Who knows what temporary workers might do with information they can gather by...

  • RE: Join tables on sys.procedures

    Sorry, realized I changed your function. You can do it this way as well. Change the join if that's not appropriate for your system

    DECLARE @path VARCHAR(500)

    SELECT @path = path

    FROM...

  • RE: Join tables on sys.procedures

    DECLARE @id INT;

    SELECT @id = id

    FROM sys.traces

    WHERE is_default = 1;

  • RE: Executing Multiple Threads to Create a Load

    Thanks, lots of ways to do this.

    I have tended to quickly mock things up for demos and short tests with a few CMD files. It's lightweight, nothing to install or...

  • RE: Join tables on sys.procedures

    SELECT *

    FROM fn_trace_geteventinfo(@id) EI

    INNER JOIN sys.procedures

    ON procedures.name = TE.name

    Or did you want something else?

  • RE: Character Encoding Conversion Issues?

    OK, so the issue here is you're moving hashing and trying to do comparisons. I think that helps.

    However, with your temp data mockup, we'll get different results with newid() than...

  • RE: Data Overload

    David.Poole (8/10/2016)


    I'm coming to the end of my career and looking back I can see huge amount of data collected, allegedly for auditing purposes, that was never accessed and no...

  • RE: Restoring DATABASE AND Overwriting Db (which has different name/files)

    You can restore a database with a different name.

  • RE: Keyboard Hardlines

    I don't think I type too hard, but I do miss the old IBM, heavy, beige, clicky mechanical keyboards. I've had a few MS keyboards over the years, and those...

  • RE: Keyboard Hardlines

    TheFault (8/10/2016)


    "I think I go through a keyboard every 18-24 months, though the mice seem to last longer."

    What the heck are you doing to them? 🙂 Not sure I've ever...

  • RE: Character Encoding Conversion Issues?

    I think this is really hard without specific data. Can you mock up an example of something that doesn't work that's exact?

    I'd think that the conversions from varchar to nvarchar...

  • RE: power script to find backup status in sql server

    I've done this in T-SQL, as noted. I get the information and then build an HTML table that is emailed to users. It's easy to do and works well.

    PoSh...

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    If any of you want to write up solutions to some of the questions you've answered, and explain in some detail, we're looking for some T-SQL content to publish. Really...

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