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Save history editable data RDBMS

I want to make application like testing system. Every question has one or many variant of answers (and one or many can be right). I apologize that tutors and students use my testing system. It means ...
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Storing date increments in tables

I'm working on a ASP/MS SQL project that performs a lot of calculations based on dates and time. In one case, the system will lookup a value based on the nearest half hour increment throughout the ...
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Is there any benefit to defragmenting SQL indexes in a SAN environment?

Our SQL server lives on a SAN. It contains dozens of OLTP databases, some with several tables containing over 1m records. We have been running Ola Hallengren's index maintenance scripts weekly, and ...
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SQL Server SSIS issue retrieve data when i enter into login of server side?

can any one try solve my problem here i am facing a problem Failed to retrieve data when i enter into login of server side here is the error message TITLE: Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio ...
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How to do automated archiving for a SQL Server database based on interpretation of database metadata?

I am looking for a solution giving me automated archiving of SQL Server databases based on a smart interpretation of table relationships that is able to archive records from related tables minimizing ...
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Commercial database systems versus open source database systems [closed]

Can anyone tell me what are the reasons for buying a commercial database system and not using an open-source free version? The reason for my question is that: Commercial systems cost upwards of ...
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Right Distribution of Databases amongst Multiple Instances

So it's obvious that many times you'll have multiple instances (even if on the same server) to have a logical separation of databases for security purposes. But when does it make sense on the ...
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Small sample database for practicing database administration?

I'm looking for a portable sample database that can be created from a script has a simple ER model has little data for database administration practicing purposes. I know that there is e.g. ...
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Is maintaining a single database an issue when the underlying project becomes larger?

I have seen this related post but it was more focusing on the amount of consumers for the databases, which is not my only problem. I have a situation, where I am taking part of the design of a new ...
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Using different servers for front-end and back-end?

I recently noticed that the load time of my website has slowed significantly. I'm not a developer, but my programmer mentioned this is due to the large amount of data that is being searched through ...
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Suggestion for Large SQL Server Database Design

We are creating a database in MSSQL 2008 R2 Standard where we will be storing a large number of records. We estimate 200 million+ records in one table annually and we are primarily INSERTing with very ...
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Determining sizes for Separated Partitions of programs, data and logs in SQL Server

As per the recommendations of the CIS benchmarks for SQL Server, I want to create separate partitions for the data, the programs and the logs on my SQL Server dedicated server. Question is, what is ...