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  • RE: Limiting the number of databases on an instance.

    CREATE TRIGGER [DDLTriggerLimitNumberOfDBs]

    ON ALL SERVER

    FOR CREATE_DATABASE

    AS

    SET NOCOUNT ON

    DECLARE @MSG VARCHAR(500)

    ...

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    Society has varying and conflicting interests; what is called objectivity is the disguise of one of these interests - that of neutrality. But neutrality is a fiction in an unneutral world. There are victims, there are executioners, and there are bystanders... and the 'objectivity' of the bystander calls for inaction while other heads fall.
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  • RE: SQL Server 2008 view Query

    Maybe something like this:

    select a.ItemID, a.ItemName, ISNULL(b.Qty, 0)

    FROM Inventory AS a

    LEFT JOIN Sales AS b

    ON a.ItemID = b.ItemID

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    It takes a minimal capacity for rational thought to see that the corporate 'free press' is a structurally irrational and biased, and extremely violent, system of elite propaganda.
    David Edwards - Media lens[/url]

    Society has varying and conflicting interests; what is called objectivity is the disguise of one of these interests - that of neutrality. But neutrality is a fiction in an unneutral world. There are victims, there are executioners, and there are bystanders... and the 'objectivity' of the bystander calls for inaction while other heads fall.
    Howard Zinn

  • RE: smart first name matching in TSQL

    Jan Van der Eecken (6/18/2013)


    May I humbly ask why you want to do this in the first place?

    This can be useful when performing record linkage and importing data into...

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    It takes a minimal capacity for rational thought to see that the corporate 'free press' is a structurally irrational and biased, and extremely violent, system of elite propaganda.
    David Edwards - Media lens[/url]

    Society has varying and conflicting interests; what is called objectivity is the disguise of one of these interests - that of neutrality. But neutrality is a fiction in an unneutral world. There are victims, there are executioners, and there are bystanders... and the 'objectivity' of the bystander calls for inaction while other heads fall.
    Howard Zinn

  • RE: Replacements for cursors

    Yea got it thanks. Not sure these sprocs work, I've seen a couple of syntax errors in there. Will have a go but difficult with no sample data.

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    It takes a minimal capacity for rational thought to see that the corporate 'free press' is a structurally irrational and biased, and extremely violent, system of elite propaganda.
    David Edwards - Media lens[/url]

    Society has varying and conflicting interests; what is called objectivity is the disguise of one of these interests - that of neutrality. But neutrality is a fiction in an unneutral world. There are victims, there are executioners, and there are bystanders... and the 'objectivity' of the bystander calls for inaction while other heads fall.
    Howard Zinn

  • RE: Replacements for cursors

    Fair enough 🙂

    Can you post one of the sproc or that part which creates the tables using cursors?

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    It takes a minimal capacity for rational thought to see that the corporate 'free press' is a structurally irrational and biased, and extremely violent, system of elite propaganda.
    David Edwards - Media lens[/url]

    Society has varying and conflicting interests; what is called objectivity is the disguise of one of these interests - that of neutrality. But neutrality is a fiction in an unneutral world. There are victims, there are executioners, and there are bystanders... and the 'objectivity' of the bystander calls for inaction while other heads fall.
    Howard Zinn

  • RE: Replacements for cursors

    If that's the only use for the cursors then I wouldn't waste your time rewriting them if they already work. I doubt you'll notice much performance difference with a set-based...

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    It takes a minimal capacity for rational thought to see that the corporate 'free press' is a structurally irrational and biased, and extremely violent, system of elite propaganda.
    David Edwards - Media lens[/url]

    Society has varying and conflicting interests; what is called objectivity is the disguise of one of these interests - that of neutrality. But neutrality is a fiction in an unneutral world. There are victims, there are executioners, and there are bystanders... and the 'objectivity' of the bystander calls for inaction while other heads fall.
    Howard Zinn

  • RE: smart first name matching in TSQL

    Here you go...

    p.s.

    I got this off the internet ages ago but I can't remember where! Anyway props to the people who compiled it 🙂

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    It takes a minimal capacity for rational thought to see that the corporate 'free press' is a structurally irrational and biased, and extremely violent, system of elite propaganda.
    David Edwards - Media lens[/url]

    Society has varying and conflicting interests; what is called objectivity is the disguise of one of these interests - that of neutrality. But neutrality is a fiction in an unneutral world. There are victims, there are executioners, and there are bystanders... and the 'objectivity' of the bystander calls for inaction while other heads fall.
    Howard Zinn

  • RE: Try now SQL

    Troll :doze:

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    It takes a minimal capacity for rational thought to see that the corporate 'free press' is a structurally irrational and biased, and extremely violent, system of elite propaganda.
    David Edwards - Media lens[/url]

    Society has varying and conflicting interests; what is called objectivity is the disguise of one of these interests - that of neutrality. But neutrality is a fiction in an unneutral world. There are victims, there are executioners, and there are bystanders... and the 'objectivity' of the bystander calls for inaction while other heads fall.
    Howard Zinn

  • RE: All queries running slow after moving the db from staging server to production Server in SQL Server 2008 R2

    Have you checked wait stats?

    I got into the habit of using the below query for initial investigation into performance related prolems:

    This is from Paul Randals blog: http://www.sqlskills.com/blogs/paul/

    WITH [Waits] AS

    ...

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    It takes a minimal capacity for rational thought to see that the corporate 'free press' is a structurally irrational and biased, and extremely violent, system of elite propaganda.
    David Edwards - Media lens[/url]

    Society has varying and conflicting interests; what is called objectivity is the disguise of one of these interests - that of neutrality. But neutrality is a fiction in an unneutral world. There are victims, there are executioners, and there are bystanders... and the 'objectivity' of the bystander calls for inaction while other heads fall.
    Howard Zinn

  • RE: Simple MAX Query not working

    Have a read of this: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms189461.aspx

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    It takes a minimal capacity for rational thought to see that the corporate 'free press' is a structurally irrational and biased, and extremely violent, system of elite propaganda.
    David Edwards - Media lens[/url]

    Society has varying and conflicting interests; what is called objectivity is the disguise of one of these interests - that of neutrality. But neutrality is a fiction in an unneutral world. There are victims, there are executioners, and there are bystanders... and the 'objectivity' of the bystander calls for inaction while other heads fall.
    Howard Zinn

  • RE: Simple MAX Query not working

    with SCC_CTE(vend_i, dept, tot_wgt)

    as (select 1, 1, 75 union all

    select 2, 2, 40 union all

    select 3, 4, 50 union all

    select 3, 5, 80)

    select vend_i, dept from

    (select ROW_NUMBER() over (Partition...

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    It takes a minimal capacity for rational thought to see that the corporate 'free press' is a structurally irrational and biased, and extremely violent, system of elite propaganda.
    David Edwards - Media lens[/url]

    Society has varying and conflicting interests; what is called objectivity is the disguise of one of these interests - that of neutrality. But neutrality is a fiction in an unneutral world. There are victims, there are executioners, and there are bystanders... and the 'objectivity' of the bystander calls for inaction while other heads fall.
    Howard Zinn

  • RE: Data type Question

    From MSDN:

    varchar [ ( n | max ) ]

    Variable-length, non-Unicode string data. n defines the string length and can be a value from 1 through 8,000. max indicates that...

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    It takes a minimal capacity for rational thought to see that the corporate 'free press' is a structurally irrational and biased, and extremely violent, system of elite propaganda.
    David Edwards - Media lens[/url]

    Society has varying and conflicting interests; what is called objectivity is the disguise of one of these interests - that of neutrality. But neutrality is a fiction in an unneutral world. There are victims, there are executioners, and there are bystanders... and the 'objectivity' of the bystander calls for inaction while other heads fall.
    Howard Zinn

  • RE: Comparing rows between two tables

    You're welcome! 🙂

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    It takes a minimal capacity for rational thought to see that the corporate 'free press' is a structurally irrational and biased, and extremely violent, system of elite propaganda.
    David Edwards - Media lens[/url]

    Society has varying and conflicting interests; what is called objectivity is the disguise of one of these interests - that of neutrality. But neutrality is a fiction in an unneutral world. There are victims, there are executioners, and there are bystanders... and the 'objectivity' of the bystander calls for inaction while other heads fall.
    Howard Zinn

  • RE: Comparing rows between two tables

    SELECT

    Service

    ,CustomerName

    ,ConnectDate

    ,Disconnect

    FROM Table1

    EXCEPT

    SELECT

    Service

    ,CustomerName

    ,ConnectDate

    ,Disconnect

    FROM Table2

    SELECT

    Service

    ,CustomerName

    ,ConnectDate

    ,Disconnect

    FROM Table2

    EXCEPT

    SELECT

    Service

    ,CustomerName

    ,ConnectDate

    ,Disconnect

    FROM Table1

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    It takes a minimal capacity for rational thought to see that the corporate 'free press' is a structurally irrational and biased, and extremely violent, system of elite propaganda.
    David Edwards - Media lens[/url]

    Society has varying and conflicting interests; what is called objectivity is the disguise of one of these interests - that of neutrality. But neutrality is a fiction in an unneutral world. There are victims, there are executioners, and there are bystanders... and the 'objectivity' of the bystander calls for inaction while other heads fall.
    Howard Zinn

  • RE: Very large table - performance issues

    Jeff, thanks so much for your ideas and suggestions. I've spent a few days on this problem and the table has been restructured and a new indexing strategy has been...

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    It takes a minimal capacity for rational thought to see that the corporate 'free press' is a structurally irrational and biased, and extremely violent, system of elite propaganda.
    David Edwards - Media lens[/url]

    Society has varying and conflicting interests; what is called objectivity is the disguise of one of these interests - that of neutrality. But neutrality is a fiction in an unneutral world. There are victims, there are executioners, and there are bystanders... and the 'objectivity' of the bystander calls for inaction while other heads fall.
    Howard Zinn

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