The catch phrase around the office these days is “Big Trys and small Trans.” This came about as we were review stored procedure changes and I two suggestions. First, that the entire procedure has a try…catch around it and second that the transaction be as small as possible.
Big Try
We’ve got standards in place [...]
I had to create a script for dropping constraints on a table – no problem if the constaint is a named default, but if the default has a system generated name, it gets a bit hairy. Here’s an example of how the defaults get created:
Create table TestTable1
(TestConst datetime default Getdate())
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I googled this and found Pinal Dave had [...]
I took my 70-453 test, Upgrade: Transition Your MCITP SQL Server 2005 DBA to MCITP SQL Server 2008, yesterday and passed, so it’s official:
I would suggest once a quarter, set up a performance monitor log to collect the following counters for a couple of 24 hour periods. Look at the results in both a graph and report forms to determine the peak usage times and to see if there are any bottlenecks on your SQL server.
Here are the [...]