This tag is for the 2005 version of Microsoft's SQL Server.
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All users missing after a detach/reattach
After detaching and reattaching a database to do a copy operation, all of the user objects are now missing from the database (I should add that the copy failed; according to the logs, there was an ...
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Index Seek vs Index Scan
Looking at an execution plan of a slow running query and I noticed that some of the nodes are index seek and some of them are index scan.
What is the difference between and index seek and an index ...
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Using IF in T-SQL weakens or breaks execution plan caching?
It has been suggested to me that the use of IF statements in t-SQL batches is detrimental to performance. I'm trying to find some confirmation or validate this assertion. I'm using SQL Server 2005 ...
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When should I use the shrink option
I have seen a lot of blogs stating that shrinking is not a good habit as it will reduce the performance of the system. I agree with all those things it will lead to side effects like fragmentation, ...
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Why is SQL running the same query longer from another connection?
Here is the issue overview: Why does my stored procedure run faster when executed localy vs remotely?
Dont jump to any conclusion just yet, let me explain what I mean...
Here is the setup:
A Windows ...
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How do I automatically deliver the SQL Server built in reports?
When you right click on a number of items in the object explorer, it gives you the option for a reports menu. Various reports may exist depending on which type of item is selected. Yet, there does not ...
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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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Impact of changing the DB compatibility level for a Published replicated DB from 90 to 100
I have a SQL Server 2008 R2 server with a bunch of published databases that are currently operating under compatibility level 90 (2005).
The subscription databases are also SQL Server 2008 R2, ...
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How to restore a filegroup from its backup in SQL Server
I need guidance on how to restore a file group in Database from the File group backup taken from another same DB server. Is it possible to restore the filegroup by running restore DB for File Group.
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Why do linked servers have a limitation of 10 branches in a CASE expression?
Why does this CASE expression:
SELECT CASE column
WHEN 'a' THEN '1'
WHEN 'b' THEN '2'
... c -> i
WHEN 'j' THEN '10'
WHEN 'k' THEN '11'
END [col]
...
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Do you know an easy way to generate one record for each hour of the past 12 hours?
I have a report that shows the count of events for the past 12 hours, grouped by the hour. Sounds easy enough, but what I am struggling with is how to include records that cover the gaps.
Here is an ...
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Hard limitation for merge replication article count?
A bit of background. We developed an app that uses merge replication. Right now, we are currently publishing about 212 articles, and everything is fine, as it appears to fall into the 256 article ...
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How to check if I am hitting the Express Edition size limit?
I am confused. AFAIK SQL Server 2005 Express has a limit of 4GB database data size. However I have the following results from sp_spaceused:
How can I check if my DB is hitting the size limit?
Is ...
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Help with best practice of merging 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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Should database files be on different disk(s) than OS?
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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ODBC - how to set up ODBC driver for 2 languages (for different code page)
How to set up an ODBC driver to operate the Polish code page (1250) and Lithuania (1257) at the same time? Although the code page Lithuanian is wider than the Polish code page, the driver incorrectly ...
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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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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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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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how to add attachment(text file) to database mail?
I have scenario
Daily i run a sql job to apply a new updates to one table - this job will create one text file daily - text file contains all new updates
I can send a mail to client that job is ...
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Maintenance Plan fails but the query it generates Runs
I have an SQL Server 2005 Enterprise Edition whose Maintenance plan fails constantly with the error:
backup MYSERVER (MYSERVER)
Backup Database on MYSERVER
Databases that have a compatibility level ...
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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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User login error when trying to access secured SQL Server database
We have a username that was recently renamed from one username to another (think getting married). The Active Directory admin renamed the user because "it has always worked in the past".
One vendor ...
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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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Is 'Avoid creating a clustered index based on an incrementing key' a myth from SQL Server 2000 days?
Our databases consist of lots of tables, most of them using an integer surrogate key as a primary key. About half of these primary keys are on identity columns.
The database development started in ...
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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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Consolidating indexes
I have one big table that is used to generate business intelligence cube. Currently it has around 40M rows and 55 columns. A lot of the cube dimensions are generated by running 'select distinct' on a ...
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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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FETCH API_CURSOR causing open transaction in tempDB
A select statement run from Oracle 11gR1 to SQL Server 2005 using Gateway leaves an open transaction in tempdb. The user is a datareader in Database XYZ. Not sure why the open tran is in tempDB when ...
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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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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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How to retrieve the definition behind statistics added to tables
Is there a way to programmatically retrieve the definition of each STATISTICS added to table columns and indexes. For both user added and system created indexes. There are many STATISTICS like ...
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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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SQL Server replication subscriptions marked as inactive
Is there any way to force SQL Server NOT to mark subscriptions as inactive, ever?
It happens sporadically when there are connection issues and I don't want to have to reinitialize the subscription ...
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Retrieving row count without using Count function
I wrote a query below which shoots me a syntax error why would it do so,
SELECT MAX('Row') FROM
(SELECT ROW_NUMBER() OVER(ORDER BY ID DESC) 'Row' FROM USERS)
Error Desc:
Incorrect syntax near ...
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SQL Server 2005 Replication
I am in the process of creating Replication between 2 Remote Servers, server 1 is the Distributor and Publisher and server 2 is the Subscription.
server 1 windows 2003 server 192.168.10.1 connected ...
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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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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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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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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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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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How to check if database is in mirrored mode?
I have two database servers A and B where I have databases set up in mirroring namely X. There is another database on server A named Y which is only present on database server A. Y database has a ...
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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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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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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 ...
