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  • RE: Decoupling in Relational Databases

    Oh, and for all those who wrote in criticizing the article, give it a rest. The article is very basic, but as some have pointed out, there are people...

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  • RE: Decoupling in Relational Databases

    Karen Lopez - InfoAdvisors (3/2/2010)


    All this discussion about what to call these tables points out that we as a profession do a lousy job of defining our profession ;-).

    These tables...

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  • RE: Dodge, Dip, Dive, Duck, and Dodge

    Steve Jones - Editor (1/14/2010)


    I think you're correct about it, but I don't know that having better customer service would necessarily mean that prices would rise a lot. I'm not...

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  • RE: Dodge, Dip, Dive, Duck, and Dodge

    Man, that's enough to give even us one-time Oracle guys a bad name...geez, lighten up a bit! Not everything worth reading is confined to your narrow little world.

    Steve, this...

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  • RE: Women in Technology

    cmcc (1/6/2010)


    DC, I totally agree - we're seeing self-selection at work. What I ask is, what is behind this self-selection?

    In my generation (baby-boomers educated in the 70s) I saw the...

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  • RE: Women in Technology

    If there previously were 40% and now are 20% it indicates that there's some bias at work. You can't say that women aren't interested, if that was the case, that...

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  • RE: Optimizing Cursor Performance

    Bru Medishetty (11/22/2009)


    tho.pfaff (11/21/2009)


    ordinary queries grap the rows from the hard-disk, where the cpu needs more time to grap them. and erery time the sql-query is executed the a full...

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  • RE: Is it normal that varchar variable is automatically trimmed in t-sql ?

    No, according to the ANSI standard trailing blanks are never ignored for comparison. And as you found out, even turning the ANSI_Padding off doesn't affect how variable values are...

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  • RE: Creating View without duplicates, hope this not a dumb question lol

    I didn't see that Lynn had posted a solution, but in looking at it, that's pretty much the direction I was headed anyway...

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  • RE: Sometimes get IndexScan instead of IndexSeek

    When you have a nonclustered index seek that winds up being more expensive than an index scan you are probably also getting a Key Lookup. Which in turn means...

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  • RE: how to get output from stored procedures

    Sorry to tell you this, but I think you are in for creating a bunch of temp tables. You can't execute a stored procedure from within a function or...

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  • RE: Creating View without duplicates, hope this not a dumb question lol

    If you are really tied to that table design, post the ddl and I'll see what I can come up with.

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  • RE: Creating View without duplicates, hope this not a dumb question lol

    I'm sure you could write some pretty ugly sql to get this done, but just how married to this table schema are you? The design of this table makes...

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  • RE: Is it normal that varchar variable is automatically trimmed in t-sql ?

    This is one of those kind of weird things that you just have to keep in mind... ansi_padding is an option that controls this behavior, but it works a...

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  • RE: Sometimes get IndexScan instead of IndexSeek

    The EXCEPT function under the covers is doing the same thing as the NOT EXISTS, at least in my limited testing.

    There is one major drawback to the EXCEPT function and...

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