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  • RE: Data Scrubbing

    Yup so now you just need to copy the result of the query then paste into a new query window and run (preferably one update at a time to be...

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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: Setting up a report within SQL

    jennigirl (5/23/2013)


    I have a SQL statement ready go but I am looking for a way to get SSMS to run the report weekly at midnight and provide an output of...

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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

    Eric M Russell (5/22/2013)


    Abu Dina (5/21/2013)


    We have a tall table that contains 2.6 billion rows

    Table structure:

    The application which uses this table has been running slow for the last couple of...

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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 Scrubbing

    Crude but quick way of doing this is to copy then run the outcome of a query like the below:

    select 'update ' + table_name +

    'set ' + column_name +...

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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: SSIS Package w/Dynamic Source and Destination: Is this possible, if so how?

    KJKKPSI (5/23/2013)


    What they would like it to do is parse out the individual statements and destinations from the variable values, and then preform the export based on that pairing. After...

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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

    I have another question. Any implications running DBCC SHOW_STATISTICS on a live system with this big table?

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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

    Lowell (5/21/2013)


    Abu Dina (5/21/2013)


    The 2.6 billion total is after the insert of the 400 million.

    cool to have such big table, I'm actually a bit jealous, because it presents a lot...

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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

    The 2.6 billion total is after the insert of the 400 million.

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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

    Thanks to you both.

    Not sure why I said index fragmentation. When my colleague mentioned it to me, the first thing I asked him was about the stats lol.

    Was thinking along...

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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: Incorrect Syntax near 'MAXSIZE'

    missing comma I think, try this:

    Create database ToddTestDB On Primary

    ( Name = N'ToddTestDB',

    FILENAME = N'C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL

    Server\MSSQL10.MSSQLSERVER\MSSQL\DATAToddTestDB.MDF' , Size = 3072KB, -- this was missing!

    MAXSIZE = UNLIMITED, FILEGROWTH =...

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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: Another grouping problem

    Join the club! I also have a number of deadlines looming so don't have the luxury to spend too much time on this.

    Record linkage is a pain in the backside...

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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: Another grouping problem

    Thanks for all your help so far.

    This is one way I've tried and it works I think but I'm sure you clever folks can come up with a better way...

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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: Weird grouping problem thats driving my mad!

    Yes, there are a number of indirect relationships and it gave me a lot of headaches.

    It's just gone past midnight here in the uk so I'm off to bed. Will...

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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: Weird grouping problem thats driving my mad!

    The original table is the product of a record linkage process. All the ids are linked together. I know it's hard to spot but if you go through each row...

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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: Another grouping problem

    Unfortunately my solution isn't working as expected. Anyone else with suggestions?

    Here is some sample data:

    with SCC_CTE (Retained_ID, Dropped_ID)

    AS (Select 15799, 8388 union all

    select 52941,8388 union all

    select 52941, 15799 union...

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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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