• mister.magoo (4/22/2013)


    Sean Lange (4/22/2013)


    mister.magoo (4/19/2013)


    Sean Lange (4/19/2013)


    I had to dig around a bit to find this one. One of our legacy tables replicated from the Main Frame has a table that nobody really knows it is for but...

    There is a column ConstantC char(1).

    Anyone want to take a guess what value you will find in all 1.2 million rows???

    Not only do we have 1.2 million copies of the same value, just using the column is 9 or 10 extra keystrokes than just using the actual constant from the keyboard. :w00t:

    Please tell me there is an index on it as well!

    No the table is a heap!!! I have been asking around and nobody knows what the table is even used for. 😛

    Maybe I will add a clustered index.

    Oh, that's a shame, an index on 1.2 million repetitions of "C" would have been sooooo nice 😛

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