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Question We have a 120GB database. There was table with 60GB of data which is useless and we have truncated it. Now database size is 120GB with free space 60GB. The database will not grow up to 60GB in at least 3 months. So can … [Read More]

Question I am having trouble getting a trigger to work. What it needs to do is to prevent any customer with last name Glass from being inserted into the database. This is what I have: The issue is when I add customers with last name … [Read More]

Question This question was attempted twice on experts-exchange with no real answer. I know that I should not shrink the log file – that is not the question. If you feel like answering that one should not do it- that has been confirmed many times … [Read More]

Question I’m creating a query that has a column of dates stored as a VARCHAR in the format DD-MMM-YYYY. Could you tell me how I can convert this into date format please? I don’t want to alter the original table in any way, as it’s … [Read More]

Question One of our SQL Server 2014 database transaction logs is growing very fast and I cannot find the root cause for this. Database in Simple recovery mode. During full backup the log file grows to its limits (800GB) and backup fails. I checked the … [Read More]

Question We have the ApplicationIntent=ReadOnly properly routing our users to the Secondary ReadOnly replica. Is there a way to make this the default behavior? Apparently the default behavior seems to be ReadWrite, and if you don’t specify an ApplicationIntent it will redirect to the Primary … [Read More]

Question In my environment, I have SQL 2014 with Always On Availability Group for databases in asynchronous with manual fail over. We have 1 primary and 2 secondary replicas–secondary1 and sec2. I have to do failover from primary to secondary1. I know some data loss … [Read More]

Question I’ve some logs that I want to extract to a report in order to get the SQL_Agent_Jobs status that runs during the night. If the Job fails then I want to receive the Error Log in a table. I am trying to get that … [Read More]