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Rebuilding Unique Index with uniqueidentifier in SQL Azure never succeeds

We have a number of tables (~1M records) that have a column on them defined as: [GlobalID] [uniqueidentifier] NOT NULL that gets auto-populated with newid(). We use this ID for synchronizing data ...
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How can I remove a bad execution plan from SQL Azure?

DBCC FREEPROCCACHE doesn't work in SQL Azure. How else can I force a plan to kick itself out of the cache in a way that won't hurt a production system (i.e. I can't just go alter tables willy nilly)? ...
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Database user permissions: GRANT VIEW DEFINITION but DENY on some object types

I'm trying to figure out a combination of permissions that will allow a partner to see basic db schema but not expose objects including code. So, VIEW and SELECT on TABLES (including keys) ...
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Azure SQL Administrator Can't Access Master Database

I created an SQL server and database. I can log in to the database manage page with my administrator account, and manage the database I created, but when I try to look at the master database, it says: ...
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Conditionally INSERTING columns into Table

using SQL Azure and like to insert a data to a table using dynamic Query. No of columns in select statment is dynamic. It will be based on some conditions. Ex: Salary, Code. How can I create a ...
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SQL Azure: Drop Constraint and Index

This may be a stupid question, but I'm not a DBA and just wanna make sure of what I'm doing before I make a mistake. Here is my question: When dropping Constraints, are their indexes dropped as well? ...
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Access 2003 (SQL Server 2000) migration to SQL Azure

As my old Windows 2003 RAID controller started throwing errors, I am seriously thinking about switching current Access 2003 (adp/ADO) clients to use a Windows SQL Azure solution, in place of current ...
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Replication between SQL Server 2005 and Azure database

Is it possible to set up transitional replication between a SQL Server 2005 and a SQL Azure database? My server is nearing end of life and I would rather migrate to a cloud infrastructure instead of ...
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Rename Primary Key constraint on Azure

I'm trying to change primary key on a table in Azure storage. The plan is to create a new table, move data over and drop the old table. The problem is that I need all the constraints names to be the ...
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What is a good Diff tool when comparing on-premise to SQL Azure?

We're working on migrating our database (~400 tables) from SQL 2008 R2 to SQL Azure. We're currently in the proof-of-concept stage, figuring out the process we'll be following. We have a process that ...
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Workflow for SQL Server + Azure SQL development?

Lets assume the following: 5 devs all working on laptops Each develops/debugs on Azure compute emulator (code) and SQL Server (db) - both running locally on their laptops. I'd like to have ...
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SQL-08S01 error in FreeTDS/Azure when executing stored proc for a few minutes from Linux (but not from Windows)

I get this error on Linux (Ubuntu and CentOS) when executing a stored proc from Perl/DBI/ODBC/FreeTDS to SQL Azure: [unixODBC][FreeTDS][SQL Server]Read from the server failed (SQL-08S01) I don't ...
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Best practise for copying a database from production

Currently after releasing a new major or minor version of our application, we take a copy of the production database and perform the below process: Copy production database to test server Obfuscate ...
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How do I back up On Premise Microsoft SQL Server 2008 to Azure cloud

I have a 50 GB hosted SQL Server database at SoftLayer. I want to do backups to cloud storage, as the SoftLayer managed SQL Server backups are ridiculously priced. Eventually we will totally move ...
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How do I back up and restore a SQL Azure database?

How do I back up and restore a SQL Azure database? For that matter, how do I back up and restore an entire Azure account? Let's suppose I am working at a company and I buy a 3 month trial account ...
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Is it OK to create hundreds of databases in SQL Azure versus one big one and run the risk of deadlocking

I need to create highly scalable solution - where field devices in thousands of sites are delivering data in real time to a back end system, and SQL Azure seems to fit the bill nicely in terms of ...
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Will altering order of columns in GROUP BY affect performance?

I have a SQL query like this: SELECT A, B, (CASE WHEN C=0 THEN 0 ELSE 1 END), COUNT(D) FROM SomeTable GROUP BY A, B, (CASE WHEN C=0 THEN 0 ELSE 1 END) On a huge dataset the actual execution plan ...
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How do I count rows with two properties in one index scan in SQL?

I have a table Units where I have rows ItemId, ItemCreationDate, ItemUnitsCount. ItemId is a primary key and I have a clustered index over it. I need to output the following: for each day I need to ...
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Migrating from a physical database to a cloud database

What are the implications of moving a physical database created in Microsoft SQL server 2008R2, that makes use of advanced features like Full-Text Search on varchar(MAX) FILESTREAM BLOBS to SQL Azure? ...
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Clustered indexing is now must - why?

Earlier, there were non-conclusive to me debates/discussions on whether to (always) engage/avoid clustered indexes. Well, I understood that they are to be used sometimes with proper + specific ...