This tag is for the 2005 version of Microsoft's SQL Server.
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help with best practice of merging sql databases
Bad news, our website server (windows 2003) crashed because of dead RAID controller.
Luckily few hours later our backup server was up and website was live again.
Hopefully tomorrow our original ...
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Run two SQL Agent Jobs Simultaneously (not sequentially) as the next step
At the completion of Step 1, the job currently goes to step 2 - an osql command to start a Sql Agent job on another server. However at the completion of step 1, I would also like to start a ...
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SQL Server Express - How to check if I am hitting the size limit?
I am confused, AFAIK Sql Server 2005 Express has a limit of 4GB database data size.
How can I check if my DB is hitting the size limit?
Is unallocated space the space left untill I hit the limit?
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File locations for Full Text Catalogs using SQL Server 2005 on VMware
I have an issue with one of our development SQL Server Servers. We have databases that use full text search catalogs. Just some background info, our servers are configured to use separate drives for ...
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How to find all positions of a string within another string
How can I find all the positions with patindex in a table or variable?
declare @name nvarchar(max)
set @name ='ali reza dar yek shabe barani ba yek '
+ 'dokhtare khoshkel be disco raft va ali ...
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If I fail over one database, do the others that share the same mirror endpoint fail over as well?
We have two databases setup for mirroring on a single SQL Server instance: a test database and a production database. Both get mirrored to another server using the exact same endpoints.
If I go into ...
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DELETE failed because the following SET options have incorrect settings: 'ANSI_NULLS'
I have inherited a few scripts that are pumped through a c#.NET custom app to update a SQL2005 SP3 database. One of these scripts does a deletion on a user table called msw_timer_task, based on a ...
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How can I search the full text of a stored procedure for a value?
I use the following script to search the text of all stored procedures when I want to find specific values.
SELECT ROUTINE_NAME, ROUTINE_TYPE
FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.ROUTINES
WHERE ROUTINE_DEFINITION ...
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How to backup databases to ensure data recovery
I have 15 customer databases that have minimum replication at different sites. I currently do nightly back-ups and transfer the database back-up nightly to our main server via 7zip. We recently had ...
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How can I query data from a linked server, and pass it parameters to filter by?
I have a really big query that needs to be run on multiple databases, and the results appended to a temp table and returned.
The basic syntax looks something like this:
INSERT INTO #tmpTable (Id, ...
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Restoring differential backup from SQL Server 2005 to SQL Server 2012
We are migrating a client to a new server. Their old server has SQL Server 2005. I have attempted to perform a differential backup however I received an error about the LSN chain being broken.
Please ...
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Is there a better way than the ones listed within to join data in an excel spreadsheet to a table in a SQL Server database?
Let's say I'm given a list of names and email addresses in an excel spreadsheet. I am asked to find all customers in the database who's name, and email are in that list.
I currently know of two ways ...
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How can service pack rollback file end up on non-system volume?
I'm attempting to upgrade a SQL 2005 SP3 clustered instance to SP4. During installation, a rollback event took place with the error indicating there was insufficient space on the the disk. The system ...
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When converting a table valued function to inline, why do I get a lazy spool?
I have a table valued function that I want to convert to inline to improve performance.
It sets the value of variables to the value four bit columns in one row of a table (looking up the row using a ...
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Can I copy the table structure of a #temp table to a new physical table?
I have a #tempTable that was created using
SELECT *
INTO #tempTable
FROM OPENROWSET('Microsoft.Ace.OLEDB.12.0', 'Excel 8.0;Database=MyFileName.xls',
'SELECT * FROM [Sheet1$]')
Is there an easy way ...
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SQL Server database files on different disk as is OS installed
My very short overview
SQL Server databases are installed as virtual machines on VMWare, there are plugged a few disk areas with the same (or very similair) parameters
versions are SQL Server ...
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How do I shrink the physical Transaction Log file when it's the principal in a mirror?
We setup database mirroring over the weekend, and forgot to re-enable the job that backs up the transaction logs. When I came in this morning, the transaction log had ballooned to 58GB, and was taking ...
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IIS takes longer to run queries than SMSS
I'm completely stumped on this one.
We're running a pretty usual intranet app here, classic ASP frontend and SQL Server 2005 backend.
Occasionally, once/twice a week, a certain stored proc takes ~50x ...
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Limiting user access to tables based on a ROLE
I have a SQL Server 2005 database to which I would like to LIMIT access. I have done the following:
Created a database role called NO_HR
Added the tables to this role under Securables that should be ...
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SQL Server Transaction logs
Could someone tell me the role of transaction logs in SQL Server ?
I have a transaction log file, after making a lot of transactions for testing purpose I take the backup of it via command. Sometimes ...
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Migrating from SQL Server 2005 to SQL Server 2008 R2 on a different box
We currently have a SQL Server 2005 instance hosting a lot of application specific databases (ArchiveManager, SolarWinds, Kaspersky etc). We are planning to deploy a new SQL Server 2008 R2 instance on ...
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How to take SQL Server database under this scenario?
I have a database of size 290 GB running on SQL Server 2005 (compression is not available) and disk space is z: drive 250 GB and Y: drive is 80 GB. How can I take a full backup in this scenario? How ...
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Validate Primary Key and Index Selection
I have a table that will store transaction data from store sales registers, I have read quite a bit on index and key choice and below is what I have concluded is the best option but I am new to this ...
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Does WITH SCHEMABINDING on a multi-statement TVF improve cardinality estimates?
Based on http://blogs.msdn.com/b/psssql/archive/2010/10/28/query-performance-and-multi-statement-table-valued-functions.aspx and other articles, SQL Server assumes that a multi-line table valued ...
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Which system databases should I checkdb and defrag indices?
I have SQL Server Agent (2005) jobs that periodically perform CHECKDB and a defrag (ALTER INDEX REORGANIZE/REBUILD) of any index that is highly fragmented. These are typical maintenance best ...
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Lock escalation problem on a trigger
I've inherited a SQL Server 2005 database that is getting 2-3 deadlocks a day.
I've tracked it down to a scheduled job that runs during the day and inserts into a table with a trigger.
The trigger ...
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sql server 2005 profiler
We have a overnight agent job and one of the steps runs particular slow recently. The step calls a stored procedure. I used sql server profiler to capture the trace for that proc into a table. I ...
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Understanding Deadlock graph on one table
I do not understand this deadlock graph that we are experiencing on this table (I have had to redact the exact column names) I have not had much exposure to deadlocks outside of reading material and ...
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Objects in Tempdb that are not associated with a session
I have a SQL Server 2005 instance where my tempdb i apparently holding on to objects that are not in use anymore. The database has 24gb total and is apparently unable to go below 8gb in use. For ...
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sql server 2005 deadlock error 3930
I am trying to simulate a solution for a deadlock issue happened on our production server.
Run this to create a table to be used in 2 and 3.
IF (SELECT OBJECT_ID('dbo.MyProduct') ) IS NOT NULL
...
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Main Considerations When Moving From MS Access Programming to SQL Server
First post, be gentle...
I am a 100% self taught MS Access programmer (main part of my job is programming), I am now building larger databases; still using MS Access as the UI but SQL Server to store ...
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Restoring a database back to a point in time before full backup was made
A problem with one of our database tables arose at the end of last week and I wanted to restore that database to a server in order to retrieve the table. We only have the last backup, and a full set ...
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SQL Server taking a lot of memory
I have SQL Server Express on my VPS(2GB RAM) with a database size of 1.5 GB that I expect will increase to 15 GB. I have noticed that SQL Server is using 1.5 GB RAM even when only small queries has ...
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Invalid Object SQL Server 2005 Express
I have 2 SQL Servers, let's call them A and B. I have a ColdFusion app that runs on server A. It connects to my database, MyDb. I needed to update the db content so I backed up the same db on server B ...
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SQL Server 2005 error while starting service
I am getting error while starting the service & errorlog is:
2013-04-04 14:50:49.14 Server Microsoft SQL Server 2005 - 9.00.1399.06 (Intel X86)
Oct 14 2005 00:33:37
Copyright (c) ...
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Unexpected Table Scan with Parameterized LIKE
I'm experiencing an unexpected table scan on SQL Server 2005 against a heap table when parameterizing a LIKE statement... but when the same value as the variable is hard-coded, the expected Index Seek ...
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Backups script completes, but doesn't back up all dbs
I'm running sql server 2005 and I've made a simple backup script that backs up all the databases on one server. The script always succeeds, but when I go to check the log or the files, I see it has ...
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Process attempted to unlock a resource it does not own
SQL Server 2005 SP4 32-Bit
I have a DBCC CHECKDB job running nightly. Last night, soon after the job started, I got the errors below. The database is NOT in suspect mode, and CHECKDB comes back clean ...
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SQL Server 2005 Unexpected Disk Usage during Backups [closed]
On our SQL Server 2005 SP4 server we have a maintenance plan in place which performs a full backup of selected databases on a nightly basis. The databases are configured in Simple recovery mode and ...
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Can you create an unrecoverable SQL Agent back log?
I have created and am using an SQL Agent for the first time. I have searched google but either the info isnot there or I am not getting the keywords correct (SQL agent + back log/callstack overflow ...
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Missing data after attaching .mdf file
Recently, one of my customers had a server crash. Unfortunately, the 3th party who was responsible for the backup was 'forgotten' to schedule a backup of the DB (I know, I should have notice that).
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Long time, sporadic 'String or Binary data would be truncated.' Wisdom would be appreciated
TL;DR
How can I diagnose the source of a very inconsistent, un-reproducable 'String or Binary data would be truncated.' error, when I am quite positive the problem isn't related to user data being to ...
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FOR XML is generating a empty first line
I'm parsing with flash a XML file generated by this code:
:XML ON
USE MyDatabaseName
GO
SET NOCOUNT ON
SELECT * FROM ProgramacionDia as programa order by hora
FOR XML AUTO,
ROOT ('toflash'),
...
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Identifying which values do NOT match a table row
I would like to be able to easily check which unique identifiers do not exist in a table, of those supplied in a query.
To better explain, here's what I would do now, to check which IDs of the list ...
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Run Multiple Remote Jobs
I need to manually run a job on more than 150 sql server instances (sql server 2000, remote) from a sql server 2005 instance (the local server). The job is the same on all these instances. The job ...
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Reindexing and its effects on SQL cache
Currently looking into reindexing our sql database, and cannot find any information on whether or not the procedure cache would be effected. Any help or information would be great. We are using SQL ...
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ISNULL on NTEXT causes fatal exception on SQL Server
I have a weird error that occurs on a client's SQL Server 2005 box. We have provided them with a dataview that is populated with a query with a CTE with several joins / subqueries that does some text ...
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Can't select database for transaction log backup in maintenance plan
I am running into a problem while trying to save a transaction log database backup maintenance task:
Add the 'Back Up Database Task' to the maintenance plan.
Edit the task.
Select backup type: ...
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What type of SQL Server Replication fits our scenario? Merge or Transactional?
Background
In our current setup, we have a single SQL Server 2005 instance on our remotely hosted web server. We additionally have another (non-MSSQL) database which we use for our POS system, which ...
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SQL Server 2005 encryption - What Grants should I give
I use Mixed mode Authentication and I want my database users (in the Public role membership) to have the ability to JUST execute procedures that encrypt/decrypt data (using Certificate and Symmteric ...
