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A Self-Tuning Fill Factor Technique for SQL Server – Part 2

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Introduction Fill Factor is a parameter most of us have ignored because there is no definitive way to calculate what the correct value should be. Part 1 of this series describes a new technique to dynamically determine index fill factors for all indexes within a database. Part 2 covers an analysis of the data collection […]

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How to create and refresh development and test databases automatically, using SQL Clone and SQL Toolbelt

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Phil Factor shows how a set of Redgate tools can be used together, via PowerShell, to build a database from object-level source, stock it with data, document it, and then provision any number of test and development servers. Before tearing down and rebuilding a database to a new version, we take care to save any DDL changes made to the existing copy.

2019-04-10

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RE: special situation... full text search for anything?

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Not exactly sure about your question, but : SELECT fulltextcatalogproperty('Catalogue_name', 'PopulateCompletionAge')  Returns the difference in seconds between the completion of the last full-text index population and 01/01/1990 00:00:00. This can be manipulted according to the requirement.

2005-05-27

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RE: pass-through query problems

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The function is now working, though I  did have to specify the master database - it did not find xp_sendmail via "db_applications".  I am having trouble capturing the return code values (boolean) and/or result sets (from Books Online: Result Sets: xp_sendmail returns this message: "Mail sent").   I would like to return both.  I used your […]

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