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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Trying to find the last time that a value has changed
I have a table that has an ID, a value, and a date. There are many IDs, Values, and dates in this table.
Records are inserted into this table periodically. The ID will always stay the same but ...
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How do I maintain more audit history?
I created a SQL Server audit and when I view the audit logs I only see today’s audit. I am saving it to a file and I want to store audit for one year. Is there a way to store database and server audit ...
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How to take partitions or filegroups out of service
I'm an experienced SQL Server DBA but new to partitioning, and I have a couple of questions. Using SQL Server 2008 R2 Enterprise Edition.
I've inherited a large customer metrics database that grows ...
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How to make trigger code execute only for a specific application?
I was wondering if it is possible to enable a trigger just for my current application and not for any sql executed against the table.
The situation:
There are two applications working on the same ...
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How to take partitions or filegroups out of service [migration] [duplicate]
I'm an experienced SQL Server DBA but new to partitioning, and a had a couple of questions. Using SQL Server 2008 R2 Enterprise Edition.
I've inherited a large customer metrics database that grows by ...
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Does Detach/Attach or Offline/Online Clear the Buffer Cache for a Particular Database?
A buddy of mine told me today that instead of bouncing SQL Server, I could simply detach and then re-attach a database and this action would clear the given database's pages and plans from cache. I ...
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Configure SQL Server Database for High Availability & Warehousing
I have 3 DB servers (DB1, DB2 & DB3 - all on Win 2008 R2 with SQL Standard 2008 R2 in the same datacenter). Let's assume AdventureWorks as an example database.
My goal:
- Setup DB mirroring with ...
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Select query using a map [closed]
CREATE TABLE grid_rows(
[row_id] [int] NOT NULL,
[column_id] [smallint] NOT NULL,
[column_val] [decimal](18, 6) NULL
)
// (row_id, column_id) is a composite primary query
For a given ...
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Index usage stats DMV indicates no index activity
I'm trying to obtain information on indexes. According to several websites, the below TSQL query should join information on indexes to the indexes table, returning indexes and related information. ...
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Database design for conditional detail table
I have an expense management system for monthly expenses. Expenses are of two types: one-time monthly expenses, and daily expenses for each day of month. I have created the following tables:
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Simplify subqueries with join
I'm trying to create a report in SQL Server Reporting Services that shows the availability of multiple sites. The sites are monitored by a tool that uses a SQL Server 2012 database to store the data.
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PowerShell based SQL script execution [closed]
I am new to powershell. Even I dont think I know the basics..But now I am assigned a work to do the execution of sql scripts residing in a remote server.
1) we have to connect to that particular ...
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How to delete orphaned records from sysmergesubscriptions table?
I have some old orphaned records for old subscriptions that I want to delete from the sysmergesubscriptions table.
Each time I delete unnecessary records, it show up again after it syncs with any ...
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How to properly clean Merge Replication Setup
What is the proper way to completely clean Merge Replication setup ?
I have tried to delete the subscriptions, then delete the publication then "Disable Publishing & Distribution" & delete ...
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Given two known statements, how can I replicate deadlock?
I have two statements (an update against every row in one table (call it table A) and a delete on another table that looks up rows in table A) that I know are causing occasional deadlocks. It seems ...
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Deleting large chunks of data
create table Grid(
grid_id,
//other columns
)
//grid_id is primary key
create table grid_info(
grid_id,
colulm_id,
column_vale
)
//grid_id is foreign key ...
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Update performance: clustered versus covering index
I have a simple, 3-column table with about 50 million rows in it. This table gets about 5,000 inserts/updates per second, and perhaps 20 queries per second are executed against the table. The table ...
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How to avoid empty rows in SSIS Excel Destination?
Does anyone have a way to avoid empty rows when using SSIS to export to Excel. Here's a simple example of one data flow task:
OLE DB Source:
Data Conversion (to handle the annoying UNICODE / ...
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Need to divide single column into multiple columns
My table has data with a single column:
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
And I want output like this:
1 2 3 4 5-first row
6 7 8 9 10 - second row
Another has two columns like this:
Column 1 ...
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how I can create check sum to validate no changes at int string pairs on table
Business case is.
1)Users print document on paper
2)users carry printed paper to Boss, Boss sing on paper
3)after that users going to administrator to digitally sign that paper.
My task is to help ...
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SQL Server Replication Alternative Software
We have used SQL Server Replication for a long time and had some issues with it that sometimes we needed to reinitialize subscriptions to fix some issues & other times we needed to destroy the ...
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Errors keeping stored procedures through restore from backup
We are running SQL Server 2008 R2 on two identical servers. One, called LIVE, is our production environment. The other, called QA, is our dev enivornment. In order to check backup integrity and run ...
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How do these snapshot isolation level configurations interact on a SQL Server 2005 instance?
I started troubleshooting a tempdb issue we are having on SQL Server 2005 Enterprise Edition. A developer is getting an error that tempdb is out of space. Technically, the error is:
Transaction ...
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2answers
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Transaction Log maintenance when switching to Simple Recovery
Background:
I recently inherited 50+ SQL Servers with 450+ databases. The nightly backups are roughly 8TB and, needless to say, we're using more disk space than we'd like. All of the databases are ...
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Stored procedures vs. inline SQL
I know stored procedures are more efficient through the execution path (than the inline sql in applications). However, when pressed, I'm not super knowlegeable about why.
I'd like to know the ...
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High CPU usage on SQL server - Slow queries [closed]
Our MS SQL Server is using about 95% of the CPU-power.
After a server (hardware) restart, or a SQL-Service restart, the usage is 0% and slowly increases over the course of 1-3 days. Depending on how ...
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High CPU usage on SQL server - Slow queries [duplicate]
Our MS SQL Server is using about 95% of the CPU-power.
After a server (hardware) restart, or a SQL-Service restart, the usage is 0% and slowly increases over the course of 1-3 days. Depending on how ...
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How to find memory usage by table? [duplicate]
I want to discover how much memory is being used by each table. Is this information available in DMVs or elsewhere?
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Weird SQL error
am seeing the error logs below on my SQL server, I'm not sure if they are related to trace flag 3604. I also see something to do with memory dump as well. Please advice.
15:15:53.81 spid594 ...
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Why does selecting top 1 from composite index DESC also used to partition by month not select the top value?
We have very large database table that I need to select the value of the max id. Given the table size SELECT MAX(id) FROM tableA will not perform well enough.
Table definition (with columns omitted ...
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SQL Server automatic transaction log truncation
Have looked through msdn but cant find answers to these:
Any help much appreciated:
In simple recovery mode:
Is there any TSQL or alternative functionality that will provide a notification either ...
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How to count number of consecutive events matching status of last event?
In MS-SQL Server 2008, I have a table of events in the following format:
Controller | ExecutionTime | Result
1 | 2012-09-24 09:00:00 | 0
1 | 2012-09-24 09:01:00 | ...
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Is backing a website by a SQL Server 2012 OLAP cube considered reasonable?
I have been tasked with architecting a solution for a large retail chain. They want to allow each of its 1.2 million customers to log on to a web site to see the distribution of recent purchases ...
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SQL restore duration
I am trying to determine the duration of backup restore. I executed a few restore command to restore some backups located on network share drive. Here is command and summary,
RESTORE DATABASE [test]
...
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Insert performance with Geography column
I've been tasked with inserting data into a SQL Server table with a geography column. I've found that my times for doing inserts (same data 1.5 million rows) go up increasingly.
I started out with no ...
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LDAP in SQL Server 2012
In our current system, we query the LDAP using SQL Server 2008R2 but are moving to SQL Server 2012 where we have hit a snag. According to http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc707782.aspx one of ...
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Recommended distributor architecture for transactional replication?
We are planning to create a Transactional replication on 2 nodes of SQL Server 2008 R2, each node will be a publisher and a subscriber.
What is the best practice in order to have this scenario done? ...
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EXPORT specific columns to INSERT statements
Is there a way to export specific columns and a fixed number of rows from a table to INSERT statements?
I am trying to generate these for unit testing based on a large production table so using ...
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Shrink transaction log while transaction in progress
I have a several-GB import into my SQL Server 2005 (Standard Edition) database.
The import is separated into 4 parts, each part in its own transaction.
As you can guess, the transaction log files ...
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Bulk Insert through netwok
Can someone help me with these?
BULK INSERT DATABESE01.dbo.TABLE01
FROM '\\COMPUTER01\FOLDER01\TextFile.txt'
WITH
(
FIELDTERMINATOR = ' ',
rowterminator = '\n',
tablock
)
The error ...
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Joining data from legacy database
I'm trying to figure out how to write this query.
Table 1 - Booking
BOOKING_ID | BOOKING_DATE | etc...
1 | 2013/01/01 |
2 | 2013/01/01 |
Table 2 - BOOKING_PROCEDURE_TYPE
...
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IDENTITY_INSERT is set to OFF?
Here is my script of my db ,
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[MyTable](
[ID] [int] IDENTITY(1,1) NOT NULL,
[Code] [nvarchar](25) NULL,
[Name] [nvarchar](25) NULL,
[dob] [date] NULL ,
CONSTRAINT [PK_MyTable] ...
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Home rolled gridview search results shows rows that are supposed to be ignored [closed]
Note: I tried posting this on Stack Overflow but didn't get any good bites. I'm still researching this but wanted to see if any db czars can assist here.
I'm in the process of trying to troubleshoot ...
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1answer
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Linked Server to Mirrored Database Fails
I've setup up a mirrored database on two servers Server1 and Server 2.
On Server3, I'm trying to setup a linked server that will work regardless of which server has the active database.
I'm using ...
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Best practices to encrypt all the data
I'm working in a project, where the client is afraid their own employees (ie.: junior I.T. guys who the client does not trust) querying the database to get sensitive information.
The database is a ...
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Subquery returned more than 1 value
In my database I have two tables: projects and comp_types. When a new project is created a trigger is hit which inserts a concatenated value in a column in the projects table.
A fully working SQL ...
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Is there any way to retrieve “Messages” in SQL Server through JDBC?
By "Messages" I mean the Messages tab in the following figure, which includes "Warning", "n rows affected" and in the figure below, the execution time. In JDBC, ResultSet class is used to retrieve the ...
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Postgres books for a Sql Server DBA [closed]
I have a team of Sql Server DBAs and Architects. One of our newer teams is building a product exclusively on Postgres. Now, I need to make sure that we have the knowledge base to support this project. ...
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dbo.M7_* objects (stored procs) in my production database. What product are these from?
I have inherited a database from a predecessor who is long gone... There are about a hundred stored procs in the database that all start with dbo.M7_ They appear to be something to do with source ...
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Database associative table
I have a coworker who's insisting on using associative tables to create nullable associations. For example, we have this table :
cm.accounts
----------
id:int (PK, identity)
...
sm.services
...
