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  • RE: Embeded DB ?

    My advice is:

    a) Talk to your production support and security people to see if what you are planning will be allowed to go live.  History is littered with applications that...

  • RE: Take too long to shrink a huge database, HELP!!!!

    Some reasons for storing images in a DB

    a) Data integrity.  Most applications I have known that use a mix of DB and non-db data storage have had problems with integrity...

  • RE: Take too long to shrink a huge database, HELP!!!!

    It is important to not confuse reclaiming space within the filesystem with reclaiming space within the database.

    SHRINK is used to reclaim space within the file system.  After running a SHRINK, your...

  • RE: Take too long to shrink a huge database, HELP!!!!

    Repeated shrink and growth of a database will always lead to bad NTFS file fragmentation.  This will give continuing bad performance to your database.

    The only way to fix NTFS fragmentation...

  • RE: Partitoned views

    The answer is yes it should, but no it does not.

    Looking back at the early days of when partitions were implemented in mainframe DB2, very similar problems occurred.  It took...

  • RE: SQL Server Agent has stopped working

    Expiry or disablement of the SQL Server agent account is the most common cause of this problem.  Other potential causes are:

    a) SQL Server Agent account deleted as a SQL Server...

  • RE: Anything else I can add to my Maint Plan?

    A final point... one thing missing from your maintenance plan is backups.  You are doing backups...?

    For most sites, a full daily backup is the best option.  Transaction log backups can...

  • RE: Anything else I can add to my Maint Plan?

    Running items 1 and 2 daily is probably overkill, and running item 3 at all is too often.

    1) Integrity check

    You need to balance your trust in the reliability of your...

  • RE: TempDB operations faster?

    There are some possible answers...

    It is possible that the #temp insert did not require and file growth for either the .mdf or .ldf files, but the insert into the local...

  • RE: Copying backup causes periodic failure

    It can be surprising how many times a tape backup needs a second tape, but this tape never gets mounted. The backp then hangs until someone notices it, often...

  • RE: SQL tool-- Patrol for MS SQL

    Knowing the memory usage for a database is not particularly useful.

    I have worked on DB2 for z/OS, where information of this type can be obtained. The really useful information...

  • RE: DTS & MSDB

    If you have custom DTS tasks, the backup and restore will affect the package definition, but will of course not include the custom DLL files. Restoring an old MSDB...

  • RE: Job failed with access denied on opening datafile

    Are you using a Job Output File (seen in the Advanced tab on thejob step)? We had a problem where the proxy account could not open this file, even...

  • RE: Query generates different exec plan!

    Why is the plan bad? Is it using parallelism? Have you tried turning this off?

    Also, if you have set SQL memory to the maximum on the box, you...

  • RE: Exclusive lock issue

    Your problem may be related to adjacent-key locking.

    When you do a insert or delete, SQL locks the adjacent key as well as the record you are processing. This is...

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