May 15, 2009 at 9:19 am
same thing here.. was not expecting that.. this is the type of the question that normally show up in exams..:-D
you got me..:w00t:
Cheers,
John Esraelo
May 15, 2009 at 9:56 am
Steve Jones - Editor (5/15/2009)
This one?http://qa.sqlservercentral.com/Questions/Tags/System+databases
Thanks for the search tip, here it is:
http://qa.sqlservercentral.com/links/158289/42671
QOD was posted May 8, 2008 - lots of replies 🙂
May 15, 2009 at 11:15 am
[font="Arial"]While resource and mssqlsystemresource are both "resource" databases they are not the same if you referencing them in code for whatever reason - they are two distinct and different entities. Bad question.[/font]
May 15, 2009 at 11:47 am
Stuart,
My psychic powers allow me to detect that you answered incorrectly - as I did.
I am interested to know when you would reference it in code though?
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May 15, 2009 at 5:15 pm
I have just install SQl 2008 and I do not see a resource database in system database? Do we need to install it?
Amit Lohia
May 16, 2009 at 2:22 pm
Amit Lohia (5/15/2009)
I have just install SQl 2008 and I do not see a resource database in system database? Do we need to install it?
You don't need to install the Resource database. It's already present but "hidden" so that you won't see it in obvious places, like under system databases in SQL Server Management Studio's Object Explorer or by querying sys.databases. If you want to access it then you might enjoy the following piece by Kalen Delaney:
http://sqlblog.com/blogs/kalen_delaney/archive/2007/09/13/geek-city-the-resource-database.aspx
May 16, 2009 at 2:54 pm
FYI
I did run the select * from sys.databases and I got :
master
tempdb
model
msdb
reportserver$mssql2k8
reportserer$mssql2k8tempdb
and of course the other databases
..
Cheers,
John Esraelo
May 16, 2009 at 2:59 pm
this is also what I got from running the few lines in below: 🙁
use mssqlsystemresource
Msg 911, Level 16, State 1, Line 7
Database 'mssqlsystemresource' does not exist. Make sure that the name is entered correctly.
and..
SELECT id, name FROM master.sys.sysdbreg
Msg 208, Level 16, State 1, Line 2
Invalid object name 'master.sys.sysdbreg'.
Cheers,
John Esraelo
May 16, 2009 at 5:14 pm
John Esraelo (5/16/2009)
this is also what I got from running the few lines in below: 🙁
use mssqlsystemresource
Msg 911, Level 16, State 1, Line 7
Database 'mssqlsystemresource' does not exist. Make sure that the name is entered correctly.
and..
SELECT id, name FROM master.sys.sysdbreg
Msg 208, Level 16, State 1, Line 2
Invalid object name 'master.sys.sysdbreg'.
The USE statement would require starting SQL Server in single user mode. The SELECT statement works when connected through the Dedicated Administrator Connection (DAC).
The SELECT queries in the last section of the following article don't require single user mode or DAC:
May 17, 2009 at 8:51 pm
Most amazing for me is looking at the results out of 953 attempts. If some one doesnot recognize ResourseDB as system database is Ok. May be they don't know but how can people have doubt about master, msdb, model and tempdb. They are part of SQL Server setup from ages ?
master 99%
msdb 97%
model 92%
tempdb 95%
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May 17, 2009 at 9:19 pm
It is amazing that they're all not 99%. I can see people mis-clicking things, so I'm not sure it will be 100%, but I'm surprised msdb isn't higher.
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May 18, 2009 at 6:39 am
I'm not surprised. I've interviewed too many SQL Server "experts" and "experienced DBAs" (according to the placement firm that sent them) who couldn't name any of the system databases. When that happened I would say "ok, well one of them is tempdb, so can you name the others" just to get things moving forward, but that usually wouldn't help.
May 20, 2009 at 9:45 am
Thanks for this quesion, as I has never heard of / noticed the Resource database before, so I now know to include backing it up as part of any major upgrade. Cheers, John.:-)
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