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all groups > sql server misc > june 2004

WARNING. A simple cut and paste of 8 records can distroy a SQL Server table
Posted by pete at 6/18/2004 11:38:42 AM
Today I need to copy 8 records in a table. I have to use Access 200 because of the limitation of Enterprise Manager's inability to cope with field with more than 900 characters. Selected records, cut, paste. I got an erroor message about not being able to have a null Key_ID (I copied the reords ...more >>


Dump DB recs and trim back DB to target size?
Posted by Chris at 6/3/2004 11:42:18 PM
Hey folks, I'm pretty much a newbie as it comes to doing any DBA-type work on S2K servers, so hence this message. I'm in a position at work where everyone has to chip in as best he/she can, and since I know about some databases (mainly MySQL and Oracle), guess who got volunteered for this?...more >>

SELECT locks up with WHERE clause and one million of rows
Posted by Mauro D. at 6/1/2004 2:34:51 PM
I have a table with 25 columns and about 1.200.000 rows if i try to execute a SELECT query like SELECT * FROM TABLE WHERE datediff(s,ColData,getdate())<700 (last 11 minutes) the query go in timeout and CP occupation stay to 99% for about one hour before i kill up the query! Table is cl...more >>

Copy time is too big...
Posted by Mauro D. at 6/1/2004 6:38:23 AM
Hi, I have a production database in MSSQL 2000 Standard Edition with about 2Gb of data. My problem is the weekly backup of the entire database: every sunday night i copy all the data to another db (24 minutes) and after i made a normal complete backup (11 minutes) in a .bak file... There's ...more >>



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