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  • RE: External Hard Disk Problem

    What do you mean by 'trying access with' the hard drive? Are you using MS Access? Is this a database question or a general problem with just using...

  • RE: Introduction to the Transaction Log

    Since all I have is a dev server I wish the logs would go away automatically. I understand the importance of production systems' logs but I have no need...

  • RE: Part 2: Why you should be using the Full Recovery Model

    Jeffrey Williams-493691 (9/21/2009)


    No, BackupExec and other utilites like that won't backup SQL Server database files that are open. SQL Server locks the files and will not allow them to...

  • RE: Operating system Error 112

    Three options for not having to convert your FAT32 drive to NTFS and also not having to truncate the log file on the original to save space:

    1. Detach and copy...

  • RE: SQL Server, SANs and Virtualisation

    The most important thing to have when using a SAN is a good SAN administrator. The things are convoluted pieces of equipment with a lot of options and while...

  • RE: SSIS and Stored procedures using temp tables

    If you were using a SELECT statement as a data source, you would have to re-build and re-deploy your SSIS, which is a bit of a pain

    Thanks for the explaination!...

  • RE: SSIS and Stored procedures using temp tables

    I supposed this is a dumb newbie question but I have to ask: Why use a stored procedure for such a simple select? Wouldn't a view be better...

  • RE: Frequently moving databases without a network

    Grant Fritchey (12/22/2008)


    Take the time & trouble to create the databases, keep them small and then copy and use attach scripts to put them onto the server.

    Sorry, I don't know...

  • RE: Super SQLServer configuration

    Thayal Muhunthan (8/21/2008)


    Maximum we have 1500 users, might use 2/3 applications connecting to different DBs on the same SQL server.

    As soon as there is more than 1 app then...

  • RE: No server found but no error either with Vista

    Sorry, I missed the 's' in my original post - yes, all the services are running as show in task manager (and in the services control panel app).

  • RE: SAN best practices

    GilaMonster (5/13/2008)


    Perhaps I should have said, policy is for servers to use SAN storage for everything except the C drive.

    Sorry it wasn't clear enough that I was just trying to...

  • RE: Dynamically dividing up queries

    A variant on this idea does work nicely.  However, it requires being bounced through a temp table:

    create table #foo (id_key int identity(1,1), source_id_key int);

    insert into #foo select distinct source_id_key from dbo.Stage_Source;

    select source_id_key...

  • RE: Dynamically dividing up queries

    It makes sense but it also makes very uneven groupings.  Trying that on a test case put 4 sources into the first thread, three in the second, none in the third,...

  • RE: Adding offset week to date table

    In case anyone is interested, the solution turned out to be:

    declare

    @datefirst int

    select

    @datefirst = @@datefirst

    set

    ...

  • RE: Adding offset week to date table

    Thanks, using:

    set

    datefirst 4

    update dim_date set load_week = datepart(week

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