how to rename column name of a table using sql server command
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View ArticleHow to find empty views in a database in sql server2000
Hi all,how to get list of views which doesn't contain any records in a database in sqlserver2000please help methanks in advance,kishor.
View ArticlePartition Elimination doesn't occur with CHAR column and basic queries?
It seems that partitioning on a CHAR column is not at straight forward as I imagined. I have several ODS and data warehouse databases where almost every table is being queried with a char(3) column in...
View ArticleSuspect that a low PLE leads to a performance problem
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View ArticleUnable to shrink DB
OK, I am a sysadmin, not a DBA. So I am running some monitoring software, and it reports my log file for my DB is getting to large. I check on it and low and behold it is huge, 400+gigs when the DB...
View Articlecan tempdb be set too large?
We all know and love tempdb and its sometime excessive usage, right?I wish to know if there are any performance issues with manually setting tempdb to a large size directly, even if it is never going...
View ArticleDatabase backup issue
Hello All,Recently I have been getting the below errors whenever my full backup job runs on my staging environment. The job is nothing but a maintenance plan that first deletes backups older than 3...
View ArticleFregmentation Level of Index
Hi, we are using sql 2005 and will be migrating to sql 2008 r2 in couple of months. i am trying to use "sys.dm_db_index_physical_stats" dmv to get fragmentation level of an index but it's getting...
View ArticleDo I need to change collation to save Japanese characters in the database?
Hi,I posted a question about saving Japanese characters in the database the other day. The solution offered was to change the column data types to nvarchar which I did but Japanese characters are still...
View ArticleCharacter Encoding - Conversion
Hi,We have a CRM application which records the emails into a database. The Database uses the Collation: SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS.When I query this table to retrieve the subjects of the email using...
View ArticleA login "SQLLoginA" on server A and he wants to alter a view of a database on...
Linked server:I have a login "SQLLoginA" as db_owner on server A and he wants to alter a view of a database on server B using linked server.I have logged in Server A as Sysadmin and choosen the fourth...
View ArticleQuery runs a long time when I include actual execution plan
I'm trying to troubleshoot why a query runs 1 second vs 18 seconds in 2 very similar environments, but different servers. The database where it runs fast is a restore of a backup of the database...
View ArticleSeparating Data Files and Log Files
Hi Folks, I am facing an issue which I thought I understood but looks like reading and implementing a strategy are very different. I have a SQL 2008 running on a VM with Windows 2003 and having 8...
View ArticleSQL Server 2012 takes forever to restore database
I've been using a 2008 R2 install for a while, restoring 2008 R2 databases from a different install. 10GB DB took about 5 minutes at most to restore. I upgraded to 2012, and now the same backup takes...
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