Great question, Steve. I have to admit that I had to look this one up. Now I know what my next task will be... determine the ramifications of that file. For example, how big can it actually grow to and under what conditions? I can see this as being a very dangerous file to have on the C: drive of the server and so I'll also look into how to make it live somewhere else. Much like a swapfille, I can see possibly dedicating a preallocated drive to it.
--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".
"Dear Lord... I'm a DBA so please give me patience because, if you give me strength, I'm going to need bail money too!"
Helpful Links:
How to post code problems
How to Post Performance Problems
Create a Tally Function (fnTally)