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Question I am using the below query to pull back database sizes for our SQL instances. This cannot pull data larger than 2TB back because of the maximum number the int data type can pull back. How do I go about altering the query to return the database size, …
Continue readingQuestion I have a publisher with the distributor on the same server which is transactional replication. There is also an active subscriber using push method. I need to set a new subscriber up going to a different server using the same articles as the current …
Continue readingQuestion Is there a way to force all database and log backups run on the server to be encrypted? If encryption is not specified, the query will be terminated. asked 2021-09-12 by Avi Answer Not in SQL Server There is no option to force BACKUP DATABASE & …
Continue readingQuestion I have a table that consumes almost 1.2 TB of space and has lots of historical data which are mostly irrelevant. Since performing bulk DELETE is going to cause a lot of heavy-lifting, I'm trying to use the concept of horizontal partitioning to create …
Continue readingQuestion Our server where the Microsoft SQL Server 2016 Web Edition server is installed is running very slow. We are thinking of increasing the number of cores licensed on it. However, we need to check how many CPU cores the database is using currently. Our …
Continue readingQuestion I need to get the values from a Excel Sheet (in a shared folder) to export it and then create a SQL Table in my instance. After of this I will execute a Stored Procedure (I already created) in order to create extended properties for a specific schema …
Continue readingQuestion I realize this is likely a simplistic question but my searches only return results for Drive Letters or Database names if I include SQL Server. Please feel free to point me to existing articles or answers, and my apologies in advance :)
Continue readingQuestion I’m breaking some new ground and trying to get into Azure Data Studio. I’m having a problem with intellisense that seems to be a bug with Azure Data Studio but I’m not sure. I have issues with basic queries. Foreign keys, select statements and insert …
Continue readingQuestion I have an "Basic" pricing tier Azure SQL database with a table of 7 columns, an ID column of int that is the clustered index and primary key, one datetime2(0) column, 3 varchar(100) columns and 2 varchar(MAX) columns, all nullable.
Continue readingQuestion Diving on dba.stackexchange.com I found a nice answer that teach me how to open a .bacpac file with File Explorer. I gave it a try with the database AdventureWorks2008R2 and all I did was: Save the database as .bacpac file Rename the file extension …
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