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Exporting / Coping Views from one database to another.
Hello All,Thank you in advance for any help provided :-)I have lost all of my views on one of my databases.DB_1I have this database backed up under a different database nameDB_2After some initial...
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Database automation processes?
I'll admit, I'm not a seasoned SQL pro like most of you around here. I'm still learning and digging through the ins-and-outs of SQL Server. So, given that, what can you tell me about database...
View ArticleMoving databases from SQL 2005 to SQL 2014
It has been years since I migrated databases to a new server (SQL 7 to 2005 back in 2007). The way I did it then was to create new DBs with the same names on the new server, then use DTS to transfer...
View ArticleUsing the T-SQL Backup Command
Hello All,Backup Exec has decided that I can't backup the SQL databases on our temporary server until I backup the databases from the server (which I have done many times). Â So now I am just going to...
View ArticleTrying to pass dates as parameters to dynamic SQL string then execute
I've been working on some TSQL where I have a stored procedure that accepts two date parameters for a report that will be built in Reporting Services. Here's the created stored...
View ArticleChange management studio database...
Long story short - hired a company to install some new virtual servers and one of them included SQL. After months of using it we found that they installed a trial version.I did a fresh install per...
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Accessing SQL DB without knowing the instance information.
Hi guys, ok first off my SQL knowledge is somewhat limited so please be patient.We purchased a practice last month and I am kind of flying blind. Not much information was handed off to the IT team.I...
View ArticleSQL Connection Error
I have a couple users that are not able to connect to a SQL server. Lets call it SQL1. When they try to connect they receive the "A network-related or instance-specific error occurred while...
View ArticleWitness LDF growth
Hello, We have a full HA setup with primary, mirror, and witness servers. The primary and witness servers are set to backup regularly, but the witness server was not and it's LDF file has grown to...
View ArticleSQL Server 2016 (Public Preview) Announced
This week at the Microsoft event Ignite 2015, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella announced the next major version of SQL Server, SQL Server 2016. The first installable preview will be released this...
View ArticleDBAs and PowerShell - a match made in heaven
PowerShell is apowerful tool. (See what I did there?) You can use it to configure your environment and essentially automate your life. So why is it important for DBAs (in our case, SQL admins) to learn...
View ArticleSQL Server - To Virtualize Or Not Viirtualize
We are upgrading to Great Plains 2015 within a month. And it may be the right time to upgrade our SQL Server Hardware. Currently, it is running on a Dell PowerEdge T100 with Core i3 550 @ 3.20GHz and...
View ArticleExchange data between Oracle database and SQL server
We have Oracle database 11g (standard edition ONE) in our environment.We have a requirement now to be able to exchange data between our in-house Oracle database and outside 3rd party Microsoft SQL...
View ArticleSQL Server 2016 Availability Groups New Features
There were a number of new features announced for Availability Groups in SQL Server 2016 at Microsoft Ignite 2015 this week. Which of these features do you think will have the biggest impact to the...
View ArticleApplication getting Login Failed for user
Hi,I am in a situations of restoring an application server to a new machine.The application is having a MS SQL database. I have restored the SQL database on the new server, and installed the...
View ArticleWant to Learn More About Licensing SQL Server on a Virtual Platform?
I will be presenting for the SQL PASS Virtualization Virtual Chapter on Wedensday, May 13 at 12 PM Eastern Time (9 AM Pacific Time, 4 PM...
View ArticleSims.Net Backing up SQL database
Hi we use Sim.net in our school, and we currently use 2012 SQL. We used to use SQL 2008.So my questions are1. With backing up SQL 2008 we have a backup exec agent that backups that although now we have...
View ArticleMicrosoft SQL Server, Error: 945
I am having some problems accessing some SQL Server databases. I am able to access several databases on the server that hosts them without an issue, but I cannot open several others. In SQL Management...
View ArticleTroubleshooting performance (disk, I think)
We have a data warehouse which serves up our BI system. Standard deal: we perform overnight loads, then all user-generated queries against the system are all read-based. No new data is written during...
View ArticleSQL Server 2012 Merge Replication issue with partitioned replication
Summary: When creating a partitioning table for merge replication if you don't give the end users select permissions to this table then changes made to the publication database will not replicate.I've...
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