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  • RE: The Importance of Validating Backups

    Michael Meierruth (9/28/2012)


    rmechaber (9/28/2012)


    Did you see my post on page 3 of the comments?

    Rich

    Yes, it's 200 lines of code and comments (I like those!)

    But I'm comparing 1 line of my...

  • RE: The Importance of Validating Backups

    Did you see my post on page 3 of the comments?

    Rich

  • RE: The Importance of Validating Backups

    Gazareth (9/24/2012)


    Yes, thanks for the article Paul.

    Is there actually an easy way to check the output from DBCC CHECKDB?

    I currently scan the SQL log using xp_readerrorlog for the DBCC output...

  • RE: Backup scripts vs. Maint Plans

    I have several databases that contain scratch data that either don't ever need backing up or only need the occasional full backup, without the usual differential and log backups. ...

  • RE: SQL Server Best Practices

    4.Avoid the use of dynamic SQL where possible

    5.Use sp_executesql instead EXEC('string') whenever writing dynamic SQL

    Color me paranoid: I would change these to "Data access will be performed exclusively using parameterized...

  • RE: Tracking Processes

    Steve Jones - SSC Editor (9/21/2012)


    The question was poorly worded and I missed the total disk activity in edit.

    The question has been corrected and points awarded back as of a...

  • RE: Tracking Processes

    Stephen_W_Dodd (9/21/2012)


    Apparently, not everyone thinks that sp_who2 is total disk I/O (reads and writes).

    http://www.devx.com/tips/Tip/14208

    I think that is incorrect.

    As vk-kirov posted, sp_who2 returns data from the system view sysprocesses; the column...

  • RE: Tracking Processes

    rVadim (9/20/2012)


    I answered "Non of the above". I thought DiskIO in sp_Who2 means reads and writes combined, not just reads as question asks. Am I wrong?

    Me, too. <>...

  • RE: Certificate-Signed Stored Procedure: CREATE PROC script doesn't include this

    Ug. Thank you for testing, Lowell, and thank you for confirming my unhappy expectations, Barry. I do see that your SP work-around might work, but there's a lot...

  • RE: Working with SQL Agent Durations

    Kyle Neier , (8/24/2012)


    It seems that my article about Powershell has sparked some T-SQL discussion, so I decided to take the prompt and run some performance analysis on the different...

  • RE: Using a Certificate Signed Stored Procedure to Execute sp_send_dbmail

    Jonathan, though you wrote this 3 years ago, thank you VERY much for a clear, well-written, practical article that fixed a very thorny problem for me: allow users to execute...

  • RE: Trading in xp_cmdshell for SQLCLR (Part 1) - List Directory Contents

    Jeff Moden (8/23/2012)


    As a bit of a sidebar, I use XP_CmdShell to run PowerShell. 😀 It's quite safe to do if the system is properly locked down (only DBAs...

  • RE: Working with SQL Agent Durations

    Jason- (8/23/2012)


    rmechaber (8/23/2012)

    That code errors out on my trial:

    Msg 536, Level 16, State 5, Line 1

    Invalid length parameter passed to the SUBSTRING function.

    Rich

    I've seen this before. There is a...

  • RE: Working with SQL Agent Durations

    SQL-Tucker (8/23/2012)


    Thanks for the article, I always enjoy exploring new ways to tackle persistent challenges.

    I particularly like that it handles variable length run_duration values.

    Is there a performance gain...

  • RE: Working with SQL Agent Durations

    I confess this bit me hard in the #$% a while ago, twice: once when I found out that date and time were stored as an INT representation, once again...

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