CirquedeSQLeil (3/26/2010)

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Lynn Pettis (3/26/2010)

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CirquedeSQLeil (3/26/2010)

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Lynn Pettis (3/26/2010)

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At this point, I'm ending this conversation. Let this thread get back on topic, which is The Missing Certification.

I am more than willing...

I'd definitely agree that certification depends on the person. I knew way too many paper MCSE's a while back. It was just easy to grab a book, study, pass an...

This looks like it could be really promising for some of the issues that plague us w/ Excel such as mixed data types in a column (mostly numeric, but some...

Notepad++ - default text editor in most cases. Just enough extra bells/whistles to be useful over regular notepad.

7zip - I stopped using Winzip after they went back on their lifetime...

It's set to the size of the "model" database, regardless of edition. However, this really should have been more clear on version and specified that this would be for an...

Thanks for the reminder, Tim. This theme came up a bunch at the last PASS conference and I really appreciate that the community is so willing to share their expertise....

Vendor section isn't a bad idea, but for my part, I'd rarely hit it unless I wanted to know what real users thought about a product.

I don't mind vendors showcasing...

Sounds very much like the registry settings may have been edited - perhaps with a support ticket or similar. That sounds suspiciously like the option to read all rows...

Perhaps he has the registry settings for IMEX or similar set differently on his machine? If you can be more specific with the issues, that might help some. ...

I think I generally fall in with the majority on this one - help, but with wisdom and discernment. If this is a person who tends to abuse the system,...

Probably just not understanding your setup, but log shipping is basically:

1. Take a full DB Backup of your Source database

2. Restore that Full DB Backup with No Recovery to your...

Count me in for those thankful to Steve and everyone who helped launch this site and those who keep it going. This was probably one of my most-used resources in...

But you could combine that with a listing of the Sales people using a RowNumber or Identity type value and tie them together if I'm reading the solution and problem...

hydbadrose (12/1/2009)

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The current backup plan we have is weekly full backup, daily 2 times differential backup, every 15 minutes log shipping. so the cutover schedule is right after the 2nd...

It should not be a concern to leave the other database server running in No Recovery mode. We ran like that with pseudo log shipping for several weeks. The databases...