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What is the safest way to run SSIS on Multiple Named SQL Server Instances?

I have an Active/Active SQL Server 2008 R2 cluster. There are two named instances on each node and no default instance. I need to deploy SSIS packages to the different instances. To do this, I ...
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maintaining full text index on large table

I'm on SQL Server 2008 and have a table, for reporting purposes, with 500,000 records that will easily reach the millions. The table will employ a full text index for rapid searching on a handful of ...
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table design to track significant events associated with an item

An Orders table I'm dealing with at present in design phase has about 10 or more columns. Each OrderID in the Orders table will have certain significant events or milestones. The number of Orders ...
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Any problem with same conversation handle used by multiple services communicating with one target queue in a multiplexed service broker order queue?

I asked a question about implementing conversation groups in a SQL Service Broker setup which has several User Services communicating with the Server Service (Processing xml data requests to be sent ...
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going from heirarchical XML to heirarchical SQL tables then SQL to c# objects to go to user view, how should I store the data in the databases?

Hi I'm getting my data from a web service using their getData call and it comes in as fairly chunky heirarchical XML, first everything all at once, like <allData> <product1> ...
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How would you implement conversation groups/ locking for multiple users of a Service Broker Queue?

How do you implement conversation groups for multiple users using their own instance of the user applications but sending related messages to the service broker queue? Any good example of this kind ...
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What is the optimal way to design an approval queue and audit trail for entities in SQL Server 2008 R2?

Simplified Explanation: I have three main tables: customer, phone, and customer_phone to resolve the many-to-many. I need to ensure that only admins can insert/update these tables without approval. ...
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Should dbo schema be avoided?

When it comes to the dbo schema: Is it a best practice to avoid using the dbo schema when creating database objects? Why should the dbo schema be avoided or should it? Which database user should own ...
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SQL Globalization - DateTimeOffset

What is the recommended best practice when it comes to storing date/time for an application that needs to support multiple timezones? Which is best ? Use the SQL DateTime data type and insert ...
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How to mark an item as “Expired” when it's ExpiryDate value is in the past?

I have a table of items, each of which has a Status and ExpiryDate. What is the best way of enforcing this: when ExpireyDate > DateTime.Now update Status to "expired" I could have a stored ...
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Inner cursor performance issues

Before I tried to avoid using cursor because of performance issues. But now I have to do some calculations to reach some goals. I have a stored procedure that has a code like this: DECLARE ...
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Best way to identify orphan data?

I have a few dozen tables, that have data in them, both for the core set of data, and then the company specific data. I can never delete the core set of data, that is global for all companies. But i ...
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Best practices for connecting DBs that are in different geographical regions

We are about to set up SQL Servers in different countries. We need to link them, but we don't have to have a direct link (as in linked server). In other words, they can be loosely coupled. Is it ...