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  • RE: Learning Oracle for a SQL server DBA

    Hi there

    I started an Ebook on this a while ago, but thats not going to help you too much 🙂

    Anyhow, to be honest, it takes a lot of...

  • RE: Mapping Database File Objects and Fragmentation

    Hi all

    A popular DB vendor has a product in Beta (along with some other great functionality) that does most of the functions I described. Im not sure if I...

  • RE: Fulltext and é character

    Hi there

    Good thinking, i tried this at the column level:

    CREATE TABLE [dbo].[cktest] (

    [id] [int] NOT NULL ,

    [col1] [varchar] (50) COLLATE SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AI NOT NULL

    ) ON [PRIMARY]

    GO

    going for the "AI" (accent...

  • RE: Mapping Database File Objects and Fragmentation

    Hi there

    Good point actually! 🙂 I was more interested in the underlying architecture of SQL Server purely from a "i wonder" point of view initially. I also like...

  • RE: 15K vs 10K Disks

    Hi

    16 users hey, DSS or OLTP, what sort of read/write activity are you looking at. To be honest, unless is really intense access and its a large db, you...

  • RE: Re: Rebuild msdb

    Hi there

    Can you explain the errors you are getting? perhaps a rebuild is uncalled for and the fix is quite simple.

    Cheers

    Ck

    Chris Kempster

    http://www.chriskempster.com

    Author of "SQL Server 2k for the...

  • RE: Disk I/O is high

    Hi there

    I like to use the read and write queue length counters for each array (divide my disks in the array) when measuring IO, run this for some time though...

  • RE: Exclude from transaction

    Not that im aware of. This is a fundamental requirement for transaction consistency.

    Chris Kempster

    http://www.chriskempster.com

    Author of "SQL Server 2k for the Oracle DBA"

  • RE: Database starting up

    Hi there

    Please email the exacte messages in the log.

    Also, what does the database show up as in EM?

    Run this query and post the results:

    select name, dbid, mode,status,status2

    from master..sysdatabases

    Your db...

  • RE: Problem Solving With Information Schema Columns

    Hi there

    Nice article, ive used similar code before to locate email columns etc when organisations change email address structures etc, all very handy indeed and damn site easier than...

  • RE: Licensing

    Hi

    SQL Server cant be used unless you have a Windows licence. So, if your running CALS on the OS, one gets chewed here and again for the user accessing...

  • RE: Database design

    if you want to go cludgy and nasty, try system architect 🙂

    Chris Kempster

    http://www.chriskempster.com

    Author of "SQL Server 2k for the Oracle DBA"

  • RE: Full-Text Searching

    Try:

    '"word"'

    Cheers

    Ck

    Chris Kempster

    http://www.chriskempster.com

    Author of "SQL Server 2k for the Oracle DBA"

  • RE: Database design

    Well, this is an open question 🙂

    I like Visio, not really a db design tool as such, more a diagrammer, but great all the same. I would also consider...

  • RE: sp_xml_insertfromxml

    Hi

    Please dont double post. Makes life harded when tracking your problem/responses.

    Cheers

    Ck

    Chris Kempster

    http://www.chriskempster.com

    Author of "SQL Server 2k for the Oracle DBA"

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