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distribution.dbo.MSdistribution_history comment explanation
The comment column of distributor.dbo.MSdistribution_history contains comments such as
<stats state="2" fetch="11554" wait="214007" cmds="17898546" callstogetreplcmds="106880">
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Document database structure for auditors
I am DBA for a Microsoft SQL Server 2008r2.
Due to an audition, I need to provide data structure of my database, to people without an explicit IT background.
I guess they would like the traditional ...
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BM25 (full-text search) implementation in SQL Server
I've hit a stump, while trying to implement the BM25 algorithm in SQL Server 2008 R2. I know that SQL Server includes the Full-Text Search option, which already implements a variant of BM25, but I ...
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SQL Server 2008 R2 Policies, Facets and Conditions
I'd like to create a Policy that checks, on demand, one database in an instance for tables that have no index. I can see how to create a Condition, linked to the 'Database' Facet and checks for my ...
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Hierarchical data best practices
I'm looking for a best practicies\databases to solve our problem:
Currently we are using SQL Server 2008 R2 with HierarchyId. It works ok, but we have a lot of performance penalties due to this ...
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mdw_purge_data_ long runtime SQL Server 2008 R2
I have a SQL Server 2008 R2 that is running several databases and has also been configured as our central MDW.
When the management data warehouse is created it creates a number of agent jobs one of ...
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Retrieve 5th highest salary in table [closed]
How to get the 5th highest salary from the table. Suppose, I have 100 rows and I want to display details of 5th highest salary of the individual then how to write that query in T-SQL using SQL Server ...
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When performing a cross-database transaction, in which transaction log(s) is the information stored?
Given the following snippet:
-- error checking omitted for brevity
begin tran
exec database1..my_stored_procedure
exec database2..my_other_stored_procedure
if (@@error <> 0)
rollback
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Can I recover CDC tables from transaction logs?
Is there anyway to restore CDC tables from transaction logs? My basic understanding is that CDC reads these logs, and entries that are specially marked, are grabbed by CDC. Once this has happened ...
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Total Memory used by SQL Server (64 bit)
My knowledge on the subject suggests that perf counter SQL Server:Memory Manager: Total Server Memory only gives you buffer pool memory. There is a column called physical_memory_in_use in a DMV named ...
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Maximum memory setting in SQL Server
I'm running SQL Server 2008 and a web based application, on a single dedicated server, with only 2Gb of memory available.
As is noted elsewhere, SQL Server regularly takes up to 98% of physical ...
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Working Linked Server Query fails in sp_send_dbmail
Take the following example:
EXEC msdb.dbo.sp_send_dbmail
@recipients = '[email protected]' ,
@query = 'SELECT TOP 10 * FROM LINKEDSERVERA.DATABASE.dbo.TABLE' ,
@attach_query_result_as_file = N'True' ...
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Trying to write a system function SQL Server 2008 R2
I am trying to write a simple system function so that the dbo. prefix is NOT required to access the function. I have found an example of this for SQL Server 2000 but when I run
EXEC SP_CONFIGURE ...
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Force sql server to run query conditions as written?
Im using Sql server 2008 R2 And I have this pseudo query (SP) :
select ...
from ...
WHERE @LinkMode IS NULL
AND (myColumn IN (...very long time exeted query...))
...
...
The ...
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Disable trigger still fired
I've just run the following t-sql to disable a trigger (with a deploy script wrapper around osql):
disable trigger dbo.trExampleTableInsert ON dbo.ExampleTable
In SSMS I could see the trigger was ...
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Deleted a file accidentally, I need to remove it's entry, I don't need it's data because it contains only indexes [duplicate]
I have a C# program to deal with a big database, I need the databas not to be the buttle-nick of my program, in the database, to increase performance, I have created a filegroup with a single data ...
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Is there a behavior change between SQL Server 2000 and SQL Server 2008 R2 OPTION (FAST 1)?
This is question 2 of 2 related to the FAST query hint. Background Information (as an aside, I'm not trying to garner more rep, I'm trying to be true to only asking one question per question).
Our ...
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How does OPTION (FAST 1) actually interact with a client?
This is question 1 of 2 related to OPTION (FAST 1);
We've just upgraded our ERP database from SQL 2000 EE to 2008 R2 EE and we've been noticing increased blocking in the database. I've narrowed it ...
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Publishing stored proc execution in transactional replication
In SQL 2008 R2, I am going to update a table which will affect 25 million rows, table is currently replicated (transactional replication). To minimize the impact on replication can I create a stored ...
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SQl server indexes file damaged, was on ramdisk!
I have put some of my indexes into a file-group that contains one file, that file is on the ramdisk, the performance goes fire!! but the problem is that the file has deleted by wrong (The file ...
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Transactional replication creating a fixup index that's sleeping, but blocking other processes
I've just migrated my ERP database server from SQL Server 2000 to SQL Server 2008 R2 (both Enterprise Edition) and that migration went fairly smoothly.
However, now that I'm trying to recreate ...
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How to speed up creating clustered index on large table on SQL Server 2008 R2?
I have a large SQL Server table, the row count of the table is more than 3 billion, the data space for this table is about 120G.
And Intel Xeon CPU E5645 @2.4GHz(2 processors), 24 CPUs, 64G memory, ...
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Fulltext stoplist replication
In MS SQL Server 2008 R2 there is replication of table with fulltext index on it.
But stoplist that is associated with replicated fulltext index doesn't replicate.
Is there any possibility to ...
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Logging queries and other T-SQL in SQL Server 2008 R2
I would like to know if SQL Server 2008 R2 has a default logging scheme for SELECT statements (or any other T-SQL for that matter).
If yes, where can I see it? If not, how could I set it up?
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SQL Server Insert Into #temp table taking 1000 times longer than Select Into #temp
I am shredding an xml blob that is being passed to me and loading a temp table for further processing. One of the things I noticed while working through the process is that performing an INSERT INTO ...
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Can view adapt to implicitly reference user's default schema?
A bit of background. I have a base application and most clients use it as standard. However some clients have small code and database customisations. Each of these clients has their own branch and ...
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Slow Response: Initially it's slow and on subsequent restart of the host it works normally
We have SQL Server 2008 R2 32 bit installed on the following hardware:
CPU: Intel Xeon E5310 @ 1.60 GHz
RAM: 4 GB
HDD: Raid
Server: HP Proliant 120
OS: Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2, Standard ...
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Can I drop and recreate a system extended stored procedure?
I am having a problem with one of my servers where I cannot execute xp_cmdshell under certain conditions. The full problem can be found here problem running xp_cmdshell when Application Name set in ...
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Updating a table with more than 850 million rows of data
I have been tasked with writing an update query to update a table with more than 850 million rows of data. Here are the table structures:
Source Tables :
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[SourceTable1](
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How do I specify a linked server in SQL Server 2008 R2 to a remote database over tcp/ip?
I have a remote database running on a IAAS provider and I need to be able to execute joined queries from my local workstation. I am having trouble because when I attempt to create the link it is ...
