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  • RE: How to restore only 1 file group as a new database

    If you use SQLBackTrack backup/recovery software from BMC, this can be done.  With standard SQL Server backup/recovery the answer is no.

  • RE: Simple SQL using IN

    Apart from anything else, your clause '@LearnID IN (puTOP_SECTIONID)' is the wrong way round.  The IN clause works like 'needle IN haystack'.  Try rewriting it as 'puTOP_SECTIONID IN...

  • RE: Unreliable Index Creation

    To get PSS support, phone your local Microsoft office.  If that is not the right number they will give it to you.  When you get to PSS, you will either...

  • RE: Upgrade to MDAC 2.8 or not?

    If you use W2003, you do not have any choice about using MDAC 2.8 - it is the version shipped with W2003.

  • RE: Unreliable Index Creation

    I would echo Chris's advice.  You should contact PSS regardless of anything else you do.

    It may also be worth looking at your autogrow parameters.  Try to work out the likely...

  • RE: Error Message when running a Job

    As with all debugging, the most likely thing is that the error message is telling you the truth.  The most likely cause is that one of the file paths used...

  • RE: How to shrink transactional logs

    As some people have already said, you need to do transaction log backups to save your log information.  Do not use the truncate_only option unless you really want to loose...

  • RE: NT authenticated db owner

    Our standard is to use NT authentication everywhere we can.  This is mainly because NT auth gives improved security over SQL auth. 

    All but 1 of our production instances only...

  • RE: Databases with no transaction logs

    If you did not have a logging mechanism, you would not have a rollback mechanism.

    If your logging mechanism was limited to the memory on your box, you would be limited...

  • RE: How to shrink logfiles

    You may need to think more about the impact of shrinking log files that will grow again over the next few days.

    Any shrink operation will release disk space to the...

  • RE: Windows Authentication Restriction

    How is this any different to using SQL Server authentication?

  • RE: Statistics?

    The only reliable way to retrieve a random sample of records wit SQL Server is to use the Newid() function.  Do a search of this forum's archives for 'random' and...

  • RE: Multiple Database Backups

    There is no way to ensure you have a relationally intact set of data by taking a backup.  This is because applications can continue to update the databases while the...

  • RE: SQL Agent Notifications issue.

    SQL Mail is not the most bug-free product that Microsoft have produced.  Even though it can work for weeks without trouble, it is not unusual for mail to stop working...

  • RE: Is it possible to send the log file to a NUL device?

    If you can get a RAM disk set up, you could put the log file on there.  If you do this, you may need to  reduce the checkpoint interval so...

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