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  • RE: What's Your Title?

    abatej (11/18/2011)


    What I tell non technical people: computer programmer or a computer guy

    Last person I told that too asked if I could jail break her iphone...

    I love that...

    Me: "I...


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  • RE: Can we remove temp tables to improve performance

    andyron (11/18/2011)


    Hello guys,

    Please give some inputs for an newbie.

    The plan is to redevelop 10 PL/SQL package hundred page code, without changing the func. and the specifications, can we remove all...


    - Craig Farrell

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  • RE: Having trouble sorting by hour

    chris 81958 (11/18/2011)


    Dear Craig,

    I just read the "Forum Etiquette" section that you recommended. I can see how that would help a lot for both the poster and the helper....


    - Craig Farrell

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  • RE: SQL Server DBA/Developer salary survey

    Since there seems to be a lack of replies I might as well supply my opinion... I'm not willing to share my salary, even in a generic vote. Besides,...


    - Craig Farrell

    Never stop learning, even if it hurts. Ego bruises are practically mandatory as you learn unless you've never risked enough to make a mistake.

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  • RE: SUM from 2 CTE's

    Probably could whip something up, but I'm going to need similar schema/data samples as you originally provided for HRIS_Employee, HRIS_AbsenseHistory, HRIS_Vacation, why UnFiltered is using only the last entry logging...


    - Craig Farrell

    Never stop learning, even if it hurts. Ego bruises are practically mandatory as you learn unless you've never risked enough to make a mistake.

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  • RE: Ghost SID returned by SUSER_SID causing Login to fail with Token-based server access validation failed with an infrastructure error

    What background software are you using to pass the logins around for hops? Kerberos? Probably just needs to get itself refreshed from the primary system.


    - Craig Farrell

    Never stop learning, even if it hurts. Ego bruises are practically mandatory as you learn unless you've never risked enough to make a mistake.

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  • RE: Composite index not being chosen by the optimizer

    Tasty and chewy, thanks SpringTown. Gods I need to get caught up with things in 2k8... Skip Scan... really?! Wouldn't seem so odd if I didn't...


    - Craig Farrell

    Never stop learning, even if it hurts. Ego bruises are practically mandatory as you learn unless you've never risked enough to make a mistake.

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  • RE: Performance Question

    Thanks Ninja, I was also hoping to shorten up the endless scroll when I came back to this though. 🙂

    No wonder that thing takes two minutes, gyeah. Between...


    - Craig Farrell

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  • RE: Composite index not being chosen by the optimizer

    SpringTownDBA (11/17/2011)


    What column is the table partitioned on?

    Sql logically treats the partitioning column as a leading column of the indexes when building query plans.

    Hunh, news to me. ...


    - Craig Farrell

    Never stop learning, even if it hurts. Ego bruises are practically mandatory as you learn unless you've never risked enough to make a mistake.

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  • RE: Composite index not being chosen by the optimizer

    agiangone (11/17/2011)


    Hi Kraig,

    Table has 400,000,000 records and 1.4M are null but on key_2 having value 2 only 40,000 are null so the percentage is about 50% on the total but...


    - Craig Farrell

    Never stop learning, even if it hurts. Ego bruises are practically mandatory as you learn unless you've never risked enough to make a mistake.

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  • RE: Dates for Criteria in a view

    Mitch2007 (11/17/2011)


    Thanks for the replies Gentlemen.

    I decided to go with a Passthrough query created in VBA so that I could pass the Dates (which is stored on the source table...


    - Craig Farrell

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  • RE: Value FILLFACTOR for best perfomance

    MyDoggieJessie (11/17/2011)


    I've always been curious about which value should be set as a fillfactor and why as well...clearly there's different reasons for it when it's a clustered or non-clustered index,...


    - Craig Farrell

    Never stop learning, even if it hurts. Ego bruises are practically mandatory as you learn unless you've never risked enough to make a mistake.

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  • RE: Dates for Criteria in a view

    Mitch2007 (11/16/2011)


    BETWEEN 20111016 AND 20111115,

    BETWEEN CONVERT (varchar, DATEADD(mm, DATEDIFF(mm, 0, GETDATE()) - 1, 15), 112)

    AND CONVERT (varchar, DATEADD(mm, DATEDIFF(mm, 0, GETDATE()), 14), 112)

    It comes to a grinding halt....


    - Craig Farrell

    Never stop learning, even if it hurts. Ego bruises are practically mandatory as you learn unless you've never risked enough to make a mistake.

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  • RE: Composite index not being chosen by the optimizer

    Can you give me an average row size and NULL in key_1 percentage? going to build a local test-case.


    - Craig Farrell

    Never stop learning, even if it hurts. Ego bruises are practically mandatory as you learn unless you've never risked enough to make a mistake.

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  • RE: What about contract to hire

    Sean Lange (11/17/2011)


    I call it job dating. Both sides get a predetermined amount of time to see if they like each other before "going steady". 😛

    Great, thanks Sean. Now...


    - Craig Farrell

    Never stop learning, even if it hurts. Ego bruises are practically mandatory as you learn unless you've never risked enough to make a mistake.

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