Application Database Placement - How Do You Decide?
It's time to deploy a new application in your environment, and you see the application uses a SQL database to log application data, errors, and warnings. Then you are faced with a choice: do you...
View ArticleSlow SQL Server 2005 prepared statements
Tracking down the source of slowness in a web app. Everything seems to point at a couple of database operations. A couple of prepared statements of the form INSERT INTO [sometable] ([column1],...
View ArticleSQL Server 2008 R2 Resources
Our EDM system vendor surprised me by stating that they will no longer support MySQL with updates to their software package (surprised me eight months ago, finally getting around to fixing it). With...
View ArticleSQL 2008 R2 Scheduled Database Maintenance?
We have a document management application that is SQL based. We have had performance issues for a while. I have contacted their support several times and they blow me off with it being a hardware...
View ArticleSQL Bits and Pieces and Licensing Questions
Okay everyone, I am dealing with my very first Microsoft licensing audit (everyone remembers their first time, right?) OS licensing and Office licensing are confusing, but I've got it straightened out...
View ArticleSplitting data files
So we just got a giant new SAN and a giant new dedicated SQL Server. We have a ton of smaller SQL Server instances set up all over on various machines that we're now going to be able to consolidate....
View ArticleCreate MS SQL Backup without SSMS
We have a database in SQL we will call "ICT" that every pay period directly before processing our users have to contact me to create a backup of the database in the event something goes wrong in the...
View ArticleSQL Server Reporting Services: Report Refresh
I have built a report in SSRS, that triggers a stored procedure and everything is working except one issue I cannot seem to figure out. When the report is generated it asks the user to select which...
View ArticleSQL backups still occuring despite have deleted
I have a SQL 2008 box that we have added to a new backup service. I went into the maintenance plan(someone else created) and deleted the current local backup jobs that will no longer be needed....
View ArticleJet Reports - Create new tab per day
Sorry not sure to stick a jet reports question but I feel this might make the most sense from the options I saw. So what I'm trying to do is have my report generate a new tab for everyday of the...
View ArticleHow do I demote 'sa' account?
Is it possible to remove sysadmin role from service account user in sql server? What are the factors to consider first? Thanks!
View ArticleSSMS 2008 r2
I installed the Express version because that is all I could find available for download. I was going through a best practices doc for the software the SQL server is needed for and it says to take...
View ArticleSQL path with username and password in registry
I have created 5 databases that our users will use on a daily basis. The application they will be utilizing stores the username and password for the ODBC connection within the registry. Is there a way...
View ArticleMicrosoft SQL Mirroring and Multiple Databases
My current place of employment is currently setting a disaster recovery site. One of our main applications runs on a physical server and therefore can not be backed up by Veeam (The company who...
View ArticleMS SQL Losing Connection to Databases
Good day, Last week we began experiencing a strange problem with our SQL server. For no reason our users would lose connections to the database. Restarting the service fixes the problem but we don't...
View ArticleTo Backup or Not To Backup? What's your take on MS SQL System DBs?
Given the choice would you choose to backup the system DBs for MS SQL? Talking bout Master, model, MSDB.
View ArticleESRI SDE connection: Can establish DB connection internally, not externally
We have a new GIS server running ESRI ArcGIS 10.1 and MS SQL Server 2012. We can connect to the DB instance ("atlas02") internally from ArcCatalog by specifying "172.16.135.100\atlas02" but we cannot...
View ArticleI need to be able to export the "go to Report" to excel when i Export in SSRS
Hi Forum, I have an SSRS 2008 report with a "go to report" (Notes Report). When I export to excel I am not able to see the data on the go to report. I got an error message... Unable to open...
View ArticleJobBoss Sql Server
How can I access the SQL Server database so that I can update a couple of fields?
View ArticleSQL Migration headache
Hi allI'm left in a situation were i'm trying to migrate a database from one online host to another. We have a website and files set up on a server at the new server end ready to go. The 'Products'...
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