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When should I use the shrink option
I have seen a lot of blogs stating that shrinking is not a good habit as it will reduce the performance of the system. I agree with all those things it will lead to side effects like fragmentation, ...
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3answers
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How to find all positions of a string within another string
How can I find all the positions with patindex in a table or variable?
declare @name nvarchar(max)
set @name ='ali reza dar yek shabe barani ba yek '
+ 'dokhtare khoshkel be disco raft va ali ...
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2answers
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How to backup databases to ensure data recovery
I have 15 customer databases that have minimum replication at different sites. I currently do nightly back-ups and transfer the database back-up nightly to our main server via 7zip. We recently had ...
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3answers
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How to take SQL Server database under this scenario?
I have a database of size 290 GB running on SQL Server 2005 (compression is not available) and disk space is z: drive 250 GB and Y: drive is 80 GB. How can I take a full backup in this scenario? How ...
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1answer
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Unexpected Table Scan with Parameterized LIKE
I'm experiencing an unexpected table scan on SQL Server 2005 against a heap table when parameterizing a LIKE statement... but when the same value as the variable is hard-coded, the expected Index Seek ...
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2answers
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Missing data after attaching .mdf file
Recently, one of my customers had a server crash. Unfortunately, the 3th party who was responsible for the backup was 'forgotten' to schedule a backup of the DB (I know, I should have notice that).
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2answers
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Identifying which values do NOT match a table row
I would like to be able to easily check which unique identifiers do not exist in a table, of those supplied in a query.
To better explain, here's what I would do now, to check which IDs of the list ...
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1answer
741 views
IF NOT NULL then UPDATE else keep the value of the field
I think I am somehow close to get it work, but for some reason I still get errors.
I have the following UPDATE query:
UPDATE DeviceAttribute
SET Details = CASE Name
WHEN 'Accessories' THEN ...
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3answers
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How to check if database is in mirrored mode?
I have two database servers A and B where I have databases set up in mirroring namely X. There is another database on server A named Y which is only present on database server A. Y database has a ...
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2answers
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SQL Server 2005 Database move and rationalisation - Recommended maintenance processes
We're moving a SQL Server 2005 database to a new server and upgrading to 2008, and I'm looking for some advice and reassurance that our approach is correct.
I inherited this database and it came to ...
0
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1answer
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SQL update set column = @ parameter
doeas anyone knows how to update a table where column = @parameter WHERE SELECT
Basically I have a table with the following values. Table name is UserAttribute
ID|Name |Properties|
...
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1answer
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FETCH API_CURSOR causing open transaction in tempDB
A select statement run from Oracle 11gR1 to SQL Server 2005 using Gateway leaves an open transaction in tempdb. The user is a datareader in Database XYZ. Not sure why the open tran is in tempDB when ...
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1answer
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Scheduling a backup in SQL Server 2005
I am trying to schedule back up in SQL Server 2005 with management option. I am unable to find database name while scheduling a backup with full option. Database name is not over there in selected ...
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2answers
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Different results rebuilding an index online and offline
I have a non-clustered, non-unique index on a foreign key column of type bigint. When I rebuild the index online, the average fragmentation drops to 3%, with 2 fragments, and 30 pages.
When I run ...
4
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1answer
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Index Evaluation
I have been doing some index evalaution on a table and this is the first time I have ever looked at how well indexes are performing so and would like some advice on a certain index.
The non ...
