Microsoft's SQL Server is a relational database management system (RDBMS) that runs as a server providing multi-user access to a number of databases. It originated from the Sybase SQL Server codebase, which is why both products use the extension of SQL called Transact-SQL (T-SQL).

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Production (20GB+) Database running slowly and timing out

I know the title thread is a bit ambiguous (and my first post here!) but I am having a very severe production database problem. I am not a DBA, though I know how to work with queries and SQL Manager. ...
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Warn about table recreation on table change

By default, if you try to change a table using the designer making any of the following changes, you get an error message: You change the Allow Nulls setting for a column. You reorder columns in the ...
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how to grant select access my sql server

when I exec the syntax to gain the access I get an error that I cant grant permissions to my self. any Ideas please!
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how to manage coexistence of SQL Servers 2005/2012 within Windows Server 2012 [on hold]

Currently, a W2k8 server is used with a SQL Server 2005 Dev. Edition. That works of course. Only a strange problem occured after the installation (which includes mixed mode auth.). Windows ...
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How to create login and logout trigger for client audit?

I need a table to put login and logout information for client not sysadmin,then i can use date to statistic user login/off ration... Can anyone offer me a simple method to create login and logout ...
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Xml stored as varbinary

I'm wondering if I have to store a XML information inside a column (just storing, not for querying ) (SQL SERVER) which Datatype is better to use XML or Varbinary? I did an example: DECLARE ...
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Convert SQL Server query to MS Access syntax

I have this query in SQL Server: SELECT Dated, AccountID, AccountName, Rate, case (when (Credit-Debit) > 0 then Credit-Debit END) as Credit, case (when (Credit-Debit) < 0 then Credit-Debit ...
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How to insert and or update a variable number of records and prevent concurrency issues

I currently have the following stored procedure. However I am seeing some race conditions where I end up with incorrect data which I think is caused because the procedure isn't attomic and it can be ...
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What's the official successor for sp_resetstatus in case of a SUSPECT database?

I have a database that has been marked SUSPECT because the volume that both the data and the log file were on suddenly disappeared (an accident - this is a developer workstation). I tried bringing the ...
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storing arrays or images in a database table

I'm a beginner with both database design and use of forums such as this one so forgive me if I forget to provide some relevant information below. Basically I'm trying to store a set of arrays, in ...
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SQL Server 2005 get execution plan of a overnight stored procedure

There is a overnight job runs long time. I have used profiler to get the trace and identified a statement (in a stored procedure) that takes most of execution time. Now I need to see the execution ...
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Updating an indexed column performance impact in SQL server

I am trying to understand is there any performance impact if I am trying to update a column which is the key column of a non-clustered index in SQL server 2008? For e,g I have a column IsActive in ...
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Use of Case Statement result in Join [on hold]

Let's say I have a Case statement, something like this: SELECT CASE WHEN SC.Original_Order_Id IS NOT NULL THEN SC.Original_Order_Id WHEN P.Product_Name like '%Bundled%' THEN ...
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Failover scenario with principal “hard down”

My company has a failover pair of SQL Server 2005 instances, which provide database availability for a UL-licensed alarm/call center, where uptime and availability are critical for life safety. ...
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MS SQL Server: Can Unicode columns include non-unicode values?

I need to convert UNICODE column values from UTF16-LE to UTF-8 to then import into MySQL. Is it safe to assume columns of NVARCHAR, NTEXT, NCHAR, BIT, INT, DECIMAL, FLOAT, and DATETIME all MUST be ...

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