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Once you are going setup SQL Server Replication configures the SQL Server Agent as: Make Sure SQL Server Agent is running Right click My Computer -> Manage… -> Choose from the tree at the left: “Services and Applications” -> “Services” By default the SQL Server Agent runs under the local
» Read moreIntroduction This document describes a scenario how to setup the Transactional SQL Server Replication. Before we proceed for Replication setup you can read brief note about “Understanding of Replication” http://varindersandhu.in/2011/05/14/understanding-of-replication/ Here we will setup the Transactional SQL Server Replication between SQL Server 2000 and SQL Server 2008R2. Pre-requisite SQL Server
» Read moreA few times we were trying to locate the installation log file folder if we faced any issue or problem while installation of SQL Server. Basically, we want to know reason of issue or problem. So location of Log file folder as below SQL Server 2008 and 2008 R2 %programfiles%\Microsoft
» Read moreYou can check the compatibility of a database simply by running the below sql command. sp_dbcmptlevel 'Database_Name' Read more about sp_dbcmptlevel Values of compatibility levels and their corresponding MS SQL Server versions 60 = SQL Server 6.0 65 = SQL Server 6.5 70 = SQL Server 7.0 80 = SQL
» Read morePrior to SQL server 2005, the only way of performing the error handling was to test vale of @@ERROR global variable. Once the SQL Server completes the execution of a Transact-SQL statement, it records the status of result in @@ERROR. If the error occurred, @@ERROR contains the error number. If
» Read moreMy friend wants to restore the SQL 2008 full backup to SQL Server 2005. He faced an issue while restore the SQL 2008 full backup to SQL Server 2005. He has a question from me as: Can we restore the SQL 2008 full database backup to SQL Server 2005? Answer:
» Read moreI had requirement to get the Comma Separated Values from the table for specific column. So here sharing with you example how i handle this situation. USE tempdb GO CREATE TABLE test1 ( column1 INT, column2 VARCHAR(6) ) INSERT INTO test1 VALUES (1,'Test1'), (1,'Test2'), (2,'Test3'), (2,'Test4'), (3,'Test5') Now see the
» Read moreIt is very common practice to create an exact copy of the database backup and store it to different places so that in case any emergency or misfortune, DBA should have the alternative location to find the backup of databases. Once a full backup is accomplished DBAs generally copy the
» Read moreI had requirement to find list of all the SQL Server installed on local network then I found few very useful commands. Here sharing with you all. You can use sqlcmd, osql and isql with the -L option as shown below. Using sqlcmd -L Servers: SQLServer1 SQLServer2\DBServer SQLServer3\ReportServer SQLServer4\SQLExpress SQLServer5
» Read moreI have faced an issue during SQL Server Migration. Here sharing with you. As I need to move some databases from SQL Server 2000 to SQL Server 2008 then I faced a problem because TSEQUAL and JOIN syntax such as *= or =* not supported in SQL Server 2008. Some of
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