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  • RE: Killing Statistics Jobs

    I must be misreading the reference information.

    Permissions

    User must have VIEW SERVER STATE permission to access information from the sys.dm_exec_background_job_queue dynamic management view.

    KILL STATS JOB permissions default to the members of...

  • RE: Thanksgiving

    The correct answer is 284, oh wait that was Canada, Eh!

  • RE: Trailing

    Thom A (10/11/2016)


    Really wasn't expecting that answer. The skeptic in me does wonder how many people ran the SQL before giving an answer though 🙂

    I selected my answer (execute with...

  • RE: Restore

    Just my 2 cents.

    database crashed and it should be restored with minimal data loss using existing files

    Option 3 is faster, you are losing data every second after the crash too;...

  • RE: Max DB Size for SQL Server Express

    Must read better, EXPRESS!!!! Doh!

  • RE: Error handling

    Iwas Bornready (6/11/2015)


    I knew it would error with some kind of overflow error but I don't have all the error codes memorized.

    +1

    Figured it out by elimination:

    1000 - wrong

    220 - no...

  • RE: SOME rows

    Brian Hibbert (1/29/2015)


    Great question, and I nearly clicked 0 because '2014' = True SHOULD fail, but doesn't in SQL.

    So this is the real answer. Much better than the...

  • RE: Replication Filters

    mhynds (1/26/2015)


    The article mentioned seems to indicate that you could also use column filtering (although why you'd want to on such a small table is beyond me) but reading the...

  • RE: NO COUNT

    Thank for the question. I have been using NOCOUNT in my SP for years (OJT sql development) but did not fully understand the benefit. Now at least I have a...

  • RE: Simple arithmetic

    Hany Helmy (12/10/2014)


    paul.knibbs (12/10/2014)


    Emil Bialobrzeski (12/10/2014)


    i saw lots of people on social sites having problems with:

    1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1x0+1 = ?

    most of the answers was 1. So saying Simple may apply differently to...

  • RE: Fun with XOR #2

    dale_berta (12/8/2014)


    Actually, I'm wondering if many who got the previous post wrong was because we weren't familiar with the '^' operator. I incorrectly assumed it meant exponentiation.

    Granted, not useful in...

  • RE: Fun with XOR #1

    david.gugg (12/5/2014)


    Wow, I've never had to do bitwise operations. I totally interpreted that as a math problem (one to the one hundredth power).

    Thanks for the question!

    Made the same math...

  • RE: Trace Flags

    Still trying figure out what the point of this feature is suppose to help with.

    After some reading it appears to be a quick short cut to update stats for new...

  • RE: SETSPN

    Dave62 (10/17/2014)


    The connection to SQL Server for this question where I work is that we use the SETSPN utility to solve the double-hop issue. We have ASP.NET applications on...

  • RE: Nightly Job Failing to Truncate Transaction Log

    Luis Cazares (10/1/2014)


    Why are you truncating the log file? You're only affecting performance. You should define an appropriate size to fulfill your needs and prevent autogrowth with normal operations.

    I would...

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