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What are the advantages and disadvantages of shrinking a database? Are there any performance implications?
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I am glad to announce that along with SQLAuthority.com, I will be blogging on the prominent site of SQL Server Magazine. My very first blog post there is already live; read here: Beginning SQL Server: One Step at a Time.
My association with SQL Server Magazine has been quite long, I have written nearly…
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I need to configure SQL Server aliases on a public-facing production server. To do that, I need to install SQL Server Configuration Manager.
I was not able to find a standalone installer for that, so I am having to install SQL Server 2005 Client Components. This approach is not ideal as we don't…
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I have a SQL Server 2008 DB. I want to extract SOME tables (and associated schema, constraints, indexes, etc) and create a SQL Server Express DB. It isn't a sync of the target, we stomp on it.
We ONLY need to do this in the file system (not across the wire). We are not fond of the synchronization…
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i am connecting to sql server 2000 on a remote computer with a dotnet application, but when i try to open the connection it gives the following error:
When connecting to SQL Server 2005, this failure may be caused by the fact that under the default settings SQL Server does not allow remote connections
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What are the advantages and disadvantages of shrinking a database? Are there any performance implications?
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We have a need to fit database in 4G in order to use ms sql express edition.
I started from 7G database, and found a lot of not needed records, and deleted them.
After Shrink database size is 4.6G, and 748MB is free (according to database properties).
However, when i execute
exec sp_spaceused i…
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How is it possible to execute a direct SQL command to an ADO.NET connected database?
I want to send a DBCC SHRINKDATABASE to the SQL server, to compress the current datafile after a big deletion process. The function ObjectContext::CreateQuery returns a parser error after the DBCC command. Is there…
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My question is, should I be running one or both of the shrink command regularly,
DBCC SHRINKDATABASE
OR
DBCC SHRINKFILE
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background
Sql Server: Database is 200 gigs, logs are 150 gigs.
running this command
SELECT name ,size/128.0 -
CAST(FILEPROPERTY(name,…
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Hi I'm having a production database and its replicated report database. How to shrink the transaction log files in the production database as the log file size is increasing. I had tried DBCC SHRINKFILE and SHRINKDATABASE commands but it does not work for me. I can't detach and shrink and attach…
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