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RE: Which is the best way to go?

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Thanks Chris. Yes, it is 1-way only. As the data exterally is not system critical I thought to simplify the administration internally of creating a DTS package that wrapped up the following: 1. truncated the external table 2. execute insert into....select Obviously this limits the recovery options but do you see this as being a […]

2003-06-25

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RE: SSWUG and PASS

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quote: Here in Europe M$ seems to like holding conference in Barcelona. That should also be worthwhile. I've been to TechEd before and must say it's more about Windows and Exchange. If you're looking for SQLServer stuff PASS is definetely the better choice. TechEd is also a lot more expensive even if you have shorter […]

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2003-06-24

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RE: Lost the MDF, have the LDF

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quote: ...my NetAdmin didn't have the tape running on that server because he "didn't know" I meant to have that server backed up when I included it in the list of servers to be backed up. I hate to be brutally honest but they call that blameshifting. Learn from not backing up your MDF and […]

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2003-06-23

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RE: Confusing query plan

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Without researching it too much... I can tell that SQL2K loves having a clustered index. On my test machine I had the same table scan results as you, but creating either of the indexes as clustered resulted in both the table scans changing to index seeks, with no hints required.

2003-06-22

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RE: BCP or DTS

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I prefer using DTS for any time ... DTS have a BCP insert task and have more sophisticated tasks which helps me in ETL processing.

2003-06-19

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RE: Replacing SAN on SQL 2000 Cluster

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I should have given you more information. Sorry. The SQL cluster we have currently resides on the SAN that will be replaced. The company I work for has done this a couple of times in the past and has always had problems with moving an active/passive sql 2000 cluster from one SAN to another. The […]

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2003-06-18

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RE: Security Methodology Using Roles

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Have not played with this much, but I think for the jobs you can make them owners of the jobs. By doing this they should then be able to manage those jobs that they own. Not sure about the DTS packages. I assume if they are the owners of the packages they will also be […]

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2003-06-18

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