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RE: SQL Scheduler - Not running jobs

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If I need a daily task (or whatever time period), and I need to take into account server reboots unannounced, then I tend do write my own scheduler (using Perl). On invocation (which is every 5 mins or so), it checks the last run date in a status file which is written to disk after […]

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2005-03-17

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RE: Poor Trigger Performance - Why?

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As far as cutting down the number of rows processed, that is effectively what I am doing with... WHERE PoliID IN (SELECT PoliID FROM Inserted) ...(PoliID is the Primary Key field) I have tried using an INNER JOIN on the ‘Inserted’ table instead but it causes the trigger processing to take even longer for some reason. The following […]

2005-01-19

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RE: Shrinking Transaction Log Files and TRUNCATEONLY

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You're talking about two different things here to me - shrinking the log file(s) is quite different to truncating the log.Obviously if you truncate the log and use a recovery model that relies on the log files for recovery then you're dead if you don't backup the Db after doing a truncate log operation. If what you […]

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2004-11-03

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RE: log shipping in disaster recovery

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For the logins, you could do a BCP out of the syslogins table on a nightly basis and copy the output file to the second server.  As part of our Distaster Recovery, we bcp out a view of syslogins other than the standard system logins (such as sa).   Then, you could BCP them in when you need […]

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2004-10-18

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