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RE: DTS package won't run as job

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I used my own account which was a sysadmin account using SQL Server authentication. I have a tip that problem might be resolved by stopping and restarting SQL Server. SQL Agent may not have access to all it needs to run job because it was started before Oracle Client install. I'll let you know if […]

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2003-06-25

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RE: Best practice on table design

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The other performance consideration, in addition to the efficiency of table scans as mentioned, is your cache hit ratio and I/0. More rows to a page, more rows potentially in the cache, obviously a good thing. And even when you do have to read from disk, if the more rows to a page, the more […]

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2003-06-25

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RE: How much do you earn?

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"$100 is too much right now but when the economy is good, you can charge $100. Right now, the max you can charge is $50 an hour." Hey, I'd LOVE to make $5 /hour, or heck, even half that. I'm working as a DBA now for $11/hr and I'm doing hideous work. I don't do […]

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2003-06-25

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RE: How to make a SP stop automaticaly after s.time?

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Hi, Sorry I haven't had time to test it, but the following maybe along the lines of what you need. -------------------------------------- declare @startdate datetime set @startdate = getdate() . . . if @startdate = datediff(mi, @startdate, getdate()) + n /*where n is the number of minutes you wish to timeout after*/ return -------------------------------------- Hope this […]

2003-06-25

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RE: How much do you earn?

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Interesting topic! Well the UK market depends a lot on where you are. You can earn between £25k & £60k a year in London. The further north you go, the salary drops and mostly I have seen top ends of £30k. I'm on just under £30k which is about $50 or 43,000 euro's! Most of […]

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2003-06-25

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RE: sql server logs are not being filled

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Maybe there's nothing to be logged. No jobs being killed, and possibly no backups happening because SQL Agent not started? Could you have cycled SQL Server and forgot to restart SQL Agent? From QA try: RAISERROR ('Hello World', 0, 1) WITH LOG Then: exec sp_readerrorlog You should see your "hello World" at the end of […]

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2003-06-24

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