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Depending on the version of SQL Server. You could use an agent job and call a PowerShell script to drop the directories. Or use the old batch script. Old DOS RMDIR drive:path Or PowerShell: Remove-Item...
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As Blackhawk-17 and David mentioned, you have to do some manual work when using log shipping. If you want automatic fail-over look at mirroring or better yet look at SQL 2012 and AlwaysOn options.
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Have you read this forum post? It may be an authentication issues. The user is in one domain and trying to connect/authenticate to a server is a different domain. Read here:...
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For people to be able to provide answers to your question(s) you need to provide more information. This is a great post to help you help us to help you. :)...
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Being handed a mess or a broken server is never fun. As far as I see you have a few options. Others may provide more options but here are two. It appears by the error message there are some required...
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You can't recover data after deleting unless you have the following. 1. Transaction log backups (simple mode you won't) 2. You have a backup of the database (you said you didn't) 3. 3rd Party software...
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Adding one other thing to Thomas's answers you may want to consider/look into. You could use database compression (row or page level) to reduce the size of the mdf file. There are some draw backs to...
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From what I was able to gather from your question, I executed the query on my server and all backups indicate they were backed up last night as my schedule indicates they should. This is a script I...
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I have not worked with this type of requirement before. That being said, the direction I would go is something like this. 1. Gather requirements (Business unit/Security) 2. Discuss with Security (Or...
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Why not use the Job Activity Monitor in SQL Server Agent? It is a GUI interface showing all jobs on your system. It has columns of Job Name, Enabled, Last Run Outcome, Next Run (date). You could also...
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The range (lowest value to highest value) for the column is based on the data type. Review the numeric data types here and chose one appropriate for you solution....
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We can provide some answers but with the questions you have you need to do some reading too. HEre is a link to MSDN page about clustering. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh231721.aspx. You...
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Look at this site. It shows a good example of what you (or they) need to do. http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2012/08/24/sql-server-delete-truncate-and-reseed-identity/
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I don't use SSIC but did you run the report after installing and rebooting? There are multiple logs generated. Perhaps it is looking at a log before the final log is written? Maybe this link will help?...
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Powershell is an option for what you want to do. Have you looked at that? I have a job running every morning sending me a excel document with all failed jobs from all my servers. Take a look here for...
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If you are only adding the months in number format why not just use an insert/update statement? After all there are only 12 numbers to insert. Or am I missing something?
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Is there a file group "AWFullTextFG"? It appears in your example there are spaces in the "path".
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What do you mean by > is there anyway i can format this I'm quite puzzled as i can't use HTML mail like i have in the past. Does that mean you can use because of the formatting issue? I use HTML...
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I think your issue is you are still using a query in the email. I do all the querying/formatting within the table. Then just add the table to sp_send_dbmail. It may also be related to HTML and the csv...
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You could use a temp table to store the information from the first SELECT, then pull one row at a time (TOP 1) from the temp table, insert and then after inserting, delete that row from the temp table....
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