SQL Server Express RAM usage question
Hello, As far as I am aware both MS SQL Server Express 2008 and Express 2012 limit ram usage per instance to 1GB. However right now I'm looking at a 2008 express server on a Windows Server 2008...
View ArticleSQL 2012 Best Setup for Hi-Availab and Performance?
Hello, We're moving to a SQL Server 2012. Before we had a failover cluster, which although it provides resiliency, most of the time it just leaves one of the two nodes in the cluster idle and wasting...
View ArticleSQL Server for Embedded Systems -usage?
Hi We are buying a new third party app, which requires a SQL server backend. We are not going to install it on our existing SQL server, going to set up a new Windows 2008R2 VM and buy SQL Server. The...
View ArticleMailling Label report, Force duplicates
I'm unable to wrap my head around an easy way to do this. I've got a query that returns mailing labels for products people purchased. How can I force two rows in the case that someone bought 2 items?...
View ArticleHow do I convert a SQL field in text format into a DATE formatted field ?
I have a field that holds a time in it - 211836 or 25917 meaning 21:18:36 and 02:59:17. I need to be able to copy this into a field that is of the DATE type. I have tried "set WeighTime =...
View ArticleSQL 2012 Business Intelligence Download
Does anyone know where I can download a trial of SQL 2012 Business Intlligence for a SQL environment that our reports folks need? It is not available through our VL and, before we pay for the...
View ArticleSQL server has 32gb ram using 4.5
Hi all, i have a question from someone about a brand new SQL sever they have it is dual CPU 32gb ram 4x sas in raid 10 it has server 2008 r2 x64 and SQL 2008 it's running in free vsphere and has all...
View ArticleSSRS 2008 R2 Format simple column chart - horizontal axis show all
This should be so simple... yet, I'm stuck. On the attached image I have simple column chart and the horizontal axis will only show every other category label. I've tried clicking just about every...
View ArticleSSRS 2008 R2 using ODBC/DB2 - parameters
I'm working in SSRS 2008 R2 and pulling from ODBC to an AS400 DB2 into a dataset. Because of this - I can only define a parameter in the SQL as a "?" - and can't assign it a name. When I try to create...
View ArticleiDashboards and SQL 2008
My company has a essential program that uses a SQL backend. The executives and important people at my company also use a program called iDashboards to view the data in the SQL database. When I first...
View ArticleEclinicalworks (EMR) Server
We are currently on a single server system for our EMR. We are looking to upgrade and the specs needed for our EMR looks to be 3 separate servers. But when I go to look into the pricing, I am told...
View ArticleSQL Developer - converting the licesning to SQL Standard
Have a project to start this week and we may not get the PO to purchase SQL Standard until after the roll out, but shortly after. I have a copy of Developer installed already on the furutre production...
View ArticleFailover Server for Database?
Hey Guys, Our current PowerEdge T310 server has not been too solid lately, with odd issues popping up every once in a while. My boss wants me to buy another server to set up in our server rack, and...
View ArticleSQL Query output in excel
Hi, I have run one vbs script which call to SQL Script & giving me output to text file.I need output to excel file which is not coming on proper way .Please help me how do I get output in excel...
View ArticleSCCM Report for servers running SQL and number of CPU cores
I need to get a report showing all servers that have an instance of SQL installed on it, and how many CPU cores each of them have. Any ideas?
View ArticleSQL converting number to decimal
Hello all, I am trying creating a new table in my MSSQL server that has stores the number of anyone that calls the company. I ran into a problem when I was imported the actual phone number to SQL a...
View ArticleWhich should I use - SQL Clustering or Mirroring ?
I will be installing a database server soon that will have multiple databases, and I need it to be high availability. Should I use clustering or mirroring ? I know that a mirror will need to be set up...
View ArticleSQL 2008 Build a simple excel report
The SQL people have gone bust and done a runner. MD has asked me if we can do a simple report in excel from the SQL database which gives a single order number and a few other fields as an output...
View ArticleReporting Services 2012 SSL URL's
Hello All, Does anyone know how to the URL in the SSL bindings (see the picture)? I think its comes from the issued by section on the certificate. Does anyone know if I'm correct?
View ArticleShrink SQL server logs
We are getting the following message when trying to shrink our transaction log. Msg 155, Level 15, State 1, Line 2 'TRUNCATE_ONLY' is not a recognized BACKUP option. Cannot shrink log file 2 (mdb_log)...
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