Running them all on 1433 is fine.

The reason it doesn't default to that is that when you install the instances on a cluster they're named instances and by default named...

john.moreno (6/8/2009)

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Tao Klerks (6/8/2009)

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john.arnott (6/8/2009)

Hmm... could this be why so many people post to the thread without (apparently) reading anything that has gone before? Could/should the site implement a "negative...

Try this on.

While BOL says that it's +2 to store it, but that refers to in memory storage as well.

try this on.

declare @char char(1)

declare @varchar varchar(1)

declare @nchar nchar(1)

declare

Josh Turner (6/5/2009)

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I think you could make an argument for any of the answers. There wasn't enough information given in the question to choose a truly clear-cut best answer. char(1)...

FreeHansje (6/4/2009)

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Hi,

I have to get involved into SQL2K5 Failover Clustering. I've read-up on the subject and miss some specific info on how things actually work. I don't need an installation...

I love varchar/nvarchar, but for a 1 character field of undertermined character set the only possible answers should be either char(1) or nchar(1). Varchar has no place in a...

sjsubscribe (5/27/2009)

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Joins in ANSI syntax can be made explicit without mangling the where logic. Parsers and optimizations have less ambiguity to deal with under certain conditions. The old syntax of...

Steve Jones - Editor (5/27/2009)

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The corrected question, which is on the web site, is

CREATE TABLE E (eid int, mid int, en char(10) )

INSERT E SELECT 1,2,'Vyas'

INSERT E SELECT 2,3,'Mohan'

INSERT E...

Laurie Dunn (5/27/2009)

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Yup, I also ran it in SQL and got:

row1 - Vyas Mohan

row2 - Mohan Shobha

row3 - Shridhar Mohan

row4 - Sourabh Mohan

So I just tried...

rkavula (5/27/2009)

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Hi , the answer for this quesiton is below

SELECT t1.en [Em], t2.en [Ma] FROM E t1, E t2 WHERE t1.mid = t2.eid

Em ...

This is an old one... but...

I've got a single maintenance plan setup on each of my servers.

Each plan has several Sub-plans and each sub-plan does one task, each with their...

george sibbald (5/5/2009)

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there is an instance of _total for the counter, but not at all sure what that is actually counting. :unsure:

I would feed the results of dbcc sqlperf(logspace) into...

Is there a way to setup a general alert when any database on the system reaches a certain log % full?

I'd love to do this... but I've got 2000 databases...

That helps a ton...

That coalesce function... what doesn't it do?

although I wound up with this... which seems to run faster.

CREATE TABLE #process_dbs(

dbname sysname,

alreadyprocessed int)

sp_msforeachdb 'USE [?];declare @reccnt int;select...

Nevermind... this was answered by those who do things better than I