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  • December 4, 2012 at 5:41 pm

    #1565542

    A lot of people have very large "log" tables that mean nothing in UAT. Find them and truncate them before you do the recommended index and compression things the others have recommended.

    If that does do it, then you're going to have to pick and choose which data you want to keep. Such "Gold Sets" are a huge PITA in many ways.

    --Jeff Moden

    RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
    First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
    ________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.

    Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.

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