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Disaster Recovery in the Enterprise – Paying the Price to Avoid Extra Costs

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Data Protection and Disaster Recovery (DR) are IT tasks that seldom get the same level of attention as development… until disaster strikes. Only if planning is adequate can an organisation be resilient in the face of unexpected problems. There are several steps that are needed to achieve an adequate DR process and the ability to restore business operations after a disaster.

2013-04-18

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RE: SHOWCONTIG Data

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You could always try an online defrag, but we all know how transaction log hungry that is.Sounds like there's a whole lot of insert/update/delete activity going on so maybe it's down to a badly designed system (with it being a vendor supplied database I wouldn't be suprised, we've had some really terrible ones in a […]

2005-03-31

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RE: Update with insert of zero

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How about something like this:select CASE PATINDEX( '%[a-Z]%', col1)  WHEN 0 THEN      stuff('000',4-len(col1),len(col1),col1)  ELSE   stuff('000',4-PATINDEX( '%[a-Z]%', col1)+1,len(col1),col1)  END from test1Where test1 is the table in question and col1 is the column you are working on. 

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2004-10-06

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RE: Merge Replication!

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I thought to change to 0 (it is 128 for replicated tables) the field relpinfo in sysobject of desired table alter the column and then reset it to 128 ! Althought i havent tried this! Altering from the sp will get you to the same err message Luani

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2003-07-03

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RE: cpu utilization

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Often my first action in such circumstances is to run profiler interactively (locally if possible) to capture SQL with a CPU > zero. I tend to run it for 15-30 mins, or for 20,000-50,000 lines, whichever comes first. Saving it to a development table for analysis thru SQL queries I've come across a query that […]

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2003-06-30

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