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What is the best permissions to set for only creating and managing own databases?

I want to create a login for a new user who could only create and manage their own databases. Other databases on the server should be read-only to that user. What would be a good set of ...
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SQL Server BPA 2008R2

I have been using SQL server BPA for getting good information from Microsoft. I was using its 2005 version in which i used to export the results in csv format but recently I got two new servers which ...
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1answer
602 views

How to Convert Horizontal to Vertical Array?

I need to create a query (suitable for Standard Edition) that has data from multiple columns (Columns 1-6 with corresponding Date Started and Date Completed data) displayed vertically, but also has ...
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1answer
132 views

Upgrade SQL Server 2005 Enterprise to SQL Server 2008 R2 Standard

I understand that this is not a supported path, but does anyone have any insight about how to accomplish this? I can't seem to find any documents on the subject. I need my QA (2005) to match my ...
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dead lock when updating

Update Operation.TrTable Set RecordId = RecordTABLE.newRecordId From Operation.TrTable tr Inner Join ( SELECT r.Id AS newRecordId, r.KeyM AS MappingKey From ...
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SQL Server Login failed for user Error: 18456, Severity: 14, State: 11

I have an AD group XYZ that I have added to SQL Server security with data_reader permissions. The XYZ group has around 10 users in there who are successfully able to access the SQL Server database. I ...
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Error 9001, Severity: 21, State: 1 The log for database 'DB_NAME' is not available

I have a SQL Server 2008 R2. I got a mail that the backup had failed, I opened the SQL log viewer and started browsing. And i found these two errors a bunch of times. error 1: Date ...
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How to get SQLCMD to output errors and warnings only?

How can you get SQLCMD, when executing a SQL script file, to just output any errors or warnings it encounters? I essentially dont want information based messages to be output.
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What is causing all of the msrepl_tran_version columns to become out-of-sync between locations in transactional replication setup?

I have been having a recurring issue with transactional replication setups at the firm I work for. We use SQL 2008 R2. Seemingly without warning or any replication errors, all of the ...
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Collect CPU, reads and writes when replaying SQL Profiler Trace

I'm trying to replay a trace on a test environment with SQL Profiler in order to benchmark a database prior to making some performance tweaks. I intend to replay the same trace at various stages to ...
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hStmt/cursor error caused by faulty data?

Could a busy hStmt and invalid cursor errors be caused by faulty data? ODBC and the software that connects to the database is correct and working - i have ran a test with a clean database (that has ...
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Drill down report links fall outside cell

Apologies for the vague title, not sure how to summarise the problem... I'm creating a dashboard report showing server state for a group of SQL servers, the problem is that the links for the drill ...
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Update Statistics Maintenance Plan - Ambiguous column name error

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Web Edition (RTM) - 10.50.1600.1 (Intel X86) Windows 2003 R2 SP2 I am in the process of setting up a maintenance plan to update statistics on a daily basis for all user ...