Reasons not to grant db_owner DBO can do some nasty stuff:-  CHANGE RECOVERY MODEL  BACKUP DATABASE  ALTER ANY SYMMETRIC KEY TURN ON/OFF AUTOSHRINK  ADD FILE AUTO_UPDATE_STATISTICS SET RECURSIVE_TRIGGERS DROP DATABASE SET OFFLINE   If you must create database objects, view showplans/dynamic tables or more but do not want to give away ‘the keys to the […] Read more

Audience: Managers/Non-database technical staff/RDBMS (database server) Beginners. Sometimes an application can misbehave.  It is normal for processes inside an RDBMS system to occasionally get blocked by another process which is currently updating data, and this normally goes unnoticed as it is usually short-lived and clears once the update activity finishes and the locks are released.  However, sometimes […] Read more

Detailed notes on reviewing existing  DBCCDB for use with ‘check storage’ DBCCDB review First, find out what ASE recommends you set the minimum values to using > sp_plan_dbccdb <dbname> Then, we work through these values and we pay attention to the settings below. check size of dbccdb check size of dbccdb_cache check scan ws value […] Read more

NO ROWS Function ‘rs_get_textptr’ for ‘sometable’ returned no rows,  table example:- create table test_tab( cola int not null, colb_txt text null) This occurs with columns containing text columns.  The problem is you forgot sp_setrepcol.  The default for text/image is always replicate and so not null is assumed.  So you need to run sp_setrepcol to set […] Read more