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GilaMonster
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Posted Wednesday, January 25, 2012 8:17 PM
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Strings and Defaults
Gail Shaw
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SQL In The Wild
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bitbucket-25253
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Posted Wednesday, January 25, 2012 8:18 PM
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Good question - thanks for reminding me of the basics
If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something.
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Paul White
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Posted Wednesday, January 25, 2012 8:35 PM
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Backwards compatibility has a lot to answer for. I cringe slightly every time I see a variable-length data type used without an explicit maximum length value.
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Koen Verbeeck
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Posted Wednesday, January 25, 2012 11:17 PM
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Easy one, thanks Gail!
How to post forum questions.
Need an answer? No, you need a question.
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bitbucket-25253 (1/25/2012)
Good question - thanks for reminding me of the basics
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Iulian -207023
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Posted Thursday, January 26, 2012 12:56 AM
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Thanks for the question
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Brigadur
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Posted Thursday, January 26, 2012 1:36 AM
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Good question, thanks. It is good to be reminded of the default length issues.
Cheers
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GilaMonster
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SQL Kiwi (1/25/2012)
Backwards compatibility has a lot to answer for. I cringe slightly every time I see a variable-length data type used without an explicit maximum length value.
Only slightly?
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Wow, wasn't aware of this so thanks (went with 1 and 1).
Good job I always specify length so it hasn't cropped up before
Not a DBA, just trying to learn
For better, quicker answers on T-SQL questions, click on the following...
http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Best+Practices/61537/
For better, quicker answers on SQL Server performance related questions, click on the following...
http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/SQLServerCentral/66909/
If you litter your database queries with nolock query hints, are you aware of the side effects?
Try reading a few of these links...
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Missing rows with nolock
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Allocation order scans with nolock
(*)
Consistency issues with nolock
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Transient Corruption Errors in SQL Server error log caused by nolock
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Dirty reads, read errors, reading rows twice and missing rows with nolock
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Good reminder of these sorts of issues.
Thanks Gail.
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