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  • RE: Service Master and Database keys

    Excellent advice regarding the service master key... back it up even if you don;t think you'll need it... it may save you later on.

    Saving scripts to recreate all of the...

    The probability of survival is inversely proportional to the angle of arrival.

  • RE: Service Master and Database keys

    I highly recommend backing up your service master key and securing it in a safe place for all your critical servers. If you ever need to restore some production databases...

    The probability of survival is inversely proportional to the angle of arrival.

  • RE: Service Master and Database keys

    Ed Wagner (5/30/2013)


    Master Keys:

    The name of '##MS_DatabaseMasterKey##' or '##MS_ServiceMasterKey##' will tell you if it's a database master or service master key.

    Symmetric Keys are stored in the same table and will...

    The probability of survival is inversely proportional to the angle of arrival.

  • RE: Service Master and Database keys

    There will always be a service master key by virtue of install. You can back it up or restore it that's about it.

    As far as database master keys, if you...

    The probability of survival is inversely proportional to the angle of arrival.

  • RE: Making a copy of a table.

    Lynn Pettis (5/29/2013)


    Can it skip the data transfer, the OP only wants the schema with no data.

    Actually I have a standalone table scripting .net utility that will script out a...

    The probability of survival is inversely proportional to the angle of arrival.

  • RE: Making a copy of a table.

    I actually wrote my own CopySQLTable utility. It is a command line utility and works (syntax-wise) very much like the good ol' windows copy command. You can copy...

    The probability of survival is inversely proportional to the angle of arrival.

  • RE: dropdown list to call different reports based on selection

    Sounds like you would be better off creating a custom .NET report page which uses the ReportViewer Control.

    The probability of survival is inversely proportional to the angle of arrival.

  • RE: Implicit Update in TRY..CATCH can it become uncommitable

    Yes.

    The probability of survival is inversely proportional to the angle of arrival.

  • RE: Implicit Update in TRY..CATCH can it become uncommitable

    It would only rollback if there was an error in the SQL statement or the update process was terminated.

    Doesn't appear to be the case here.

    The probability of survival is inversely proportional to the angle of arrival.

  • RE: Implicit Update in TRY..CATCH can it become uncommitable

    There should be no need to do all that. More than likely the process is being blocked by some other process, have you checked for blocking? (sp_who2)

    Having said that...

    The probability of survival is inversely proportional to the angle of arrival.

  • RE: Convert IP address to Binary (32)

    This is a case where CLR has marked improvements over the TSQL methodologies. I wrote a IPtoBigint conversion udf in C# and it was 10 times faster than the...

    The probability of survival is inversely proportional to the angle of arrival.

  • RE: Performance difference between LIKE and CHARINDEX?

    The way you are using it, looking for that one character, it probably won't make a measurable difference.

    Unless you need to know the index of the character/string I would use...

    The probability of survival is inversely proportional to the angle of arrival.

  • RE: How to update multiple tables in sql server 2008 ?

    No such feature exists. Wrap the two updates in a single transaction is what you want.

    The probability of survival is inversely proportional to the angle of arrival.

  • RE: Manipulating data in a 48 million record table

    Abu Dina (2/22/2013)


    By the way, the ID column appears to contain a mixture of integers and GUIDs. Should I create a new Identity column on the big table and use...

    The probability of survival is inversely proportional to the angle of arrival.

  • RE: 2 sql server instances on Same machine

    I would leave the worker thread setting alone for now.

    If both instances are the same, set max memory on each server = (TotalMemory - (OS & xtraSvcs memory)) /...

    The probability of survival is inversely proportional to the angle of arrival.

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