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RE: Desesperately seeking help !

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thank you for these precisions (and for the french saying)(i'm afraid I'm the system administrator and my own primary support provider too on this one...)i had some weird message yesterday saying "can't scan with (NOLOCK) due to movement data" during an sql operation (nothing phenomenal, something like deletion of 100 records, and insertion of roughly the […]

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2004-11-17

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Restoring database tables from a database backup

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HI.I have a database backup(.bak) and I want to know is it possible to restore from that backup just a few database tables? I've looked at the restore database option and I don't see where you can pick out certain tables, only the entire database. I know I can physically make a copy of these […]

2004-11-01

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RE: Retrieving the ID of a record just inserted

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If you can add one more column to your table than: create table FIFO(xxx,xxx,xxx, GUID uniqueidentifier)  declare @GUID uniqueidentifier set @GUID = NewID() INSERT INTO FIFO ( xxx,xxx,xxx,xxx, GUID&nbsp VALUES( xxx,xxx,xxx,xxx, @GUID&nbsp        // Insert recordSELECT  UID AS Value FROM FIFOwhere GUID = @GUID                                            // Get the UID of the record just inserted It works much faster than using temporary table, especially if […]

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2004-08-30

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RE: Copying Databases to New Server

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Don't use the wizard. It's a piece of #@$%#%$# http://qa.sqlservercentral.com/columnists/ckempster/deattachandreattachdatabases.asp http://qa.sqlservercentral.com/columnists/rsharma/copydatabase.asp Steve Jones sjones@sqlservercentral.com http://qa.sqlservercentral.com/columnists/sjones www.dkranch.net

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2003-06-19

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RE: Clustering

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We have been investigating setting up an active/active cluster. We have identified that cross database chaining is not intended to work across two separate servers. This may be an issue, depending on how tightly security is locked down on the database. We are going for execute permissions only on stored procedures and this policy must […]

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2003-06-17

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RE: What makes a good developer?

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Serious though, looking for a solution. Google. There are plenty people who have had the same problem you have. This is how I found SQLServerCentral. A guy started working here who had never heard of google. He asked was it good. To demo it, I searched on "How do I wipe my @55" I, yes […]

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2003-06-11

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