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  • RE: Trade-offs

    I have heared it as "Good, Fast, Cheap. Pick any two." See here. It's a truism. For the large part it's true. Like most truisms it's...

    ATBCharles Kincaid

  • RE: Fun with Outer Joins

    DB.Duck (9/17/2012)


    CELKO (9/9/2012)


    ...we do not use BIT flags in SQL...

    You, sir, couldn't be more wrong. That is all.

    Actually it's almost a great point but poorly stated. Let me give...

    ATBCharles Kincaid

  • RE: Fun with Outer Joins

    Ken,

    It's a great article.

    Yep as a simple teaching example I get your design. I also get what Joe is saying, although he has often said it better, in that...

    ATBCharles Kincaid

  • RE: Check Used Table Space for User Defined Tables

    I just tried it again on my 2005 instance. Works fine for me but I do get that error if I don't have the following declare at the top.

    DECLARE

    @TABLENM...

    ATBCharles Kincaid

  • RE: Check Used Table Space for User Defined Tables

    Mick Opalak (9/5/2012)


    Nice script, but can't you get the same information in Management Studio just by listing a database's tables in the Object Explorer and sorting by space used?

    That might...

    ATBCharles Kincaid

  • RE: Watch Your Mouth

    thadeushuck (8/29/2012)


    This is how it starts. Steve wants us to police our language at work. Then the government passes laws banning curse words at work and at home for the...

    ATBCharles Kincaid

  • RE: Trading in xp_cmdshell for SQLCLR (Part 1) - List Directory Contents

    As for not having the source code, that might not be as big of a thing as you think. If you can extract the assembly as a file then...

    ATBCharles Kincaid

  • RE: Check Used Table Space for User Defined Tables

    Great script. Thanks. I learned that all bets are off when change tracking is on. I had an express instance that reported full but space used showed...

    ATBCharles Kincaid

  • RE: Happy Fourth of July 2012

    I am proud of my homeland. I am also proud of being proud of my homeland.

    Every person should be proud of their homeland. I like hearing from people...

    ATBCharles Kincaid

  • RE: Introduction to Indexes

    GilaMonster (7/3/2012)


    Any time at all that you query the index's order is irrelevant. Join or no join.

    Sorry. I misspoke (mistyped, whatever). In the absence of ORDER BY it’s...

    ATBCharles Kincaid

  • RE: Introduction to Indexes

    GilaMonster (7/3/2012)


    No. They define the logical order only.

    The first time that you JOIN it won't matter anyway. There may be some ordering in intermediate result sets but the only...

    ATBCharles Kincaid

  • RE: New features in SQL 2012, the contained database

    So lets say that my application needs to connect. How do I construct the connection string?

    ATBCharles Kincaid

  • RE: Run SQL Server Scripts using C#

    There is 1 central thing about stuff you can run as a SQL statment and that is:

    It's a SQL statement. 😎

    I have used the data access stuff just fine for...

    ATBCharles Kincaid

  • RE: How to create a database backup using visual studio

    Say, Grasshopper, that remids me. COPY ONLY! Don't let a rogue backup mess up your chains.

    Somebody else mentions log backups and differnetials. This thread is like a...

    ATBCharles Kincaid

  • RE: How to create a database backup using visual studio

    I agree that there are lots of good tools on the market. What makes me so tired, and sad, is hearing from my clents that they have yet another...

    ATBCharles Kincaid

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