yes - especially when you are evolving the application (and doubly so when making online updates)

anyway...

because the proc had to select the user account to check the balance already

the foreign key constraint was unnecessary

a single check constraint is quick but that isn't a common scenario

checking...

plenty of validation at the application level

plenty more at the...

1) that is the default port for sftp so no need to specify

2) try space: servername<space>22

to be clear: "sftp" = the ssh ftp protocol?

that trace looks like actual "ftp" -...

I get a little tingle of excitement everytime I use "goto" in CSharp

I like to have very tight control of my data - with many constraints and triggers etc.

but, saying that, I have built systems without any of the usual constraints

because:

- it...

I like the rule "never do anything you can't undo"

if, after dropping the database your restore had failed ...

... a safer approach would be to: detach db, rename mdf/ndf/ldf, restore

OP: use the deadlock xml to determine the statements and resources involved in the deadlock

but to understand the deadlock you have to work backwards (possibly across multiple procedures / views...

FWIW, when I started my job a bit over a year ago, we were getting regular deadlocks. After some work to set up traces to trap all deadlocks, and to...

this is a good start

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms191158.aspx

Dynamic SQL

build a SQL string and execute it

if you truncate the time to nearest 30 minutes (hh:00 or hh:30)

and then group by that:

declare @now datetime

set @now = {ts'2010-01-01 00:59:00'}

select dateadd(day, datediff(day, 0, @now), 0)

+ dateadd(hour, datepart(hour, @now), 0)

+...

wayne: that is very handy bit of sql

it is impossible / unreasonable and unnecessary to stop all deadlocks

as long as there is correct retry logic

they are irrelevant

if you have an...

it is not easy to answer without knowing more, but ...

change either:

dbo.proc_MSS_ProcessDelete

-- or --

dbo.proc_MSS_UpdateHostStats

to access tables:

WSS_Search_NIHR-MOSS1.dbo.MSSCrawlHostList

-- and --

WSS_Search_NIHR-MOSS1.dbo.MSSCrawlQueue

in the same order

if the existing logic doesn't lend itself to a re-ordering

consider...

I plan to one day soon

Even though I use it everyday, it is still a work in progress - and not ready for general consumption

(It is a Windows Application -...