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Is there a system primary key associated with each row?

Does a system primary key or unique identifier for each row in a table exist? Like @@ROWID, @@IDENTIFER, or some other identifier that uniquely identifies each row regardless of how it was created? ...
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How to replicate from SQL Server 2000 to SQL Server 2008 R2?

I have SQL Server 2000 as publisher and SQL Server 20008 R2 as subscriber. I want to replicate data from SQL Server 2000 to SQL Server 2008 R2 on a different machine. Primary key fields are not ...
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SQL Server 2008 upgrade advisor tool

We upgraded to SQL Server 2008 from SQL Server 2000. But due to some legacy scripts/queries in our health care application, that run only in 2000, we had to run 2008 version on backwards compatibility ...
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Cleaning up transaction replication del/ins/upd stored procedures?

I'm referring to the ones that start with: dbo.sp_MSdel... dbo.sp_MSins... dbo.sp_MSupd... I've noticed they are not removed when I run exec sp_dropsubscription on the Publisher then run ...
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How unsafe is it to change the data source of repl_distributor on a publisher

I have a long story that I will condense to a few bullet points that leads up to my question Reporting Server (SQL 2008) is distributor/subscriber cluster for a SQL 2000 Transactional Publication ...
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Log Reader replication agents are constantly restarting

I am recreating (push) transactional replication from a SQL 2000 instance to a SQL 2008 instance which I had to break in order to do a db migration. The 2008 instance is both the distributor and a ...
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Transactional replication from SQL Server 2000 to 2008

I have legacy databases on two SQL Server 2000 servers that I am trying to replicate to a SQL Server 2008 R2 database using transactional replication. The 2008 server is not in the same LAN, so I am ...
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SQL Server 2000 query error

When I attempt to run on the SQL Server 2000 to a query which was developed for SQL Server 2008,I receive the following the error. ambiguous column name SucNo Here is my query: SELECT ...
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Possible pitfalls of condensing 2 SQL Server instances into 1

I currently have 2 SQL Server 2000 database instances (each running on a different physical server), each containing around 12 databases (not all are active). We are planning an upgrade to SQL Server ...
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How to monitor how much data is transfered in a linked server?

I have a linked server to a remote computer and doing some insert, update and delete operations between local and remote databases. I want to know how much data is transfered when operation is doing. ...
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SQL Server 2000 to SQL Server 2008 linked server issue

Here's my scenario: I've got a linked server going from a SQL Server 2000 machine to a SQL Server 2008 machine. To aid in moving databases with a minimum of config changes, most of our connections ...
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Running a sql server Trace of 1 GB using sqlcmd

I am load testing two sql server instances. I have a trace file from sql server 2000 database with a file size of little less than 1 GB. I am running this using the sqlcmd utility and it is been ...
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How to migrate from SQL Server 2000 to SQL Server 2008 R2 Express Edition

I have been trying to migrate a database from SQL Server 2000 (part of SBS 2003) to SQL Server 2008 R2 Express Edition I naively tried using the SQL Server Export and Import wizard. This has worked ...
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Migrate DTS Jobs to 2008 Server

We have been running SQL Server 2000 for years. Finally, at long last, we have an SQL 2008 Server being shipped in. We have many DTS jobs on our SQL 2000 Server that need to be migrated to the SQL ...
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DBCC CheckDB Consistency error on an empty table [duplicate]

I restored a DB from SQL Server 2000. I ran DBCC CHECKDB on SQL Server 2000, and it did not report any errors. What could be the reason behind a DBCC CHECKDB reporting a consistency error on a empty ...
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ActiveX script throwing runtime error inside DTS package

I am a DBA. We have migrated SQL 2000 databases + DTS packages to SQL 2008. One of the DTS packages runs an ActiveX script to open an Excel file (which has runs macros when you open it). Coding ...
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How do I restore a SQL Server 2000 database to a SQL Server 2008 instance?

How do I restore a SQL Server 2000 database to a SQL Server 2008 instance?
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tsql to know when a database was last shrunk

In SQL 2000, 2005 and 2008, how can I know when databases were last shrunk on a MS SQL server? I want to do this using TSQL. Regards Manjot