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  • RE: Urgent help with stored procedure (Re-Post) Please need Immediate help...

    EDIT: Removing my rude and unnecessary comment.


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  • RE: blocking due to long query, insert, and new queries

    Syed Jahanzaib Bin hassan (5/27/2011)


    If you have multiple processors then use

    MAXDOP query hint option in the end of the query

    how to apply query hint then visit on this link

    What...


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  • RE: Asking for help to understand subtle nuances of randomised query.

    mister.magoo (5/27/2011)


    Yes, I understand that principal better now - that's why I changed the query to include that specific ORDER BY.

    Ah, sorry. Misunderstood your confusion.

    1. Why does this query...


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  • RE: How to "key/join" procedural vs. relational records??

    al_nick (5/27/2011)


    Craig-

    This works perfectly.

    Was not familiar with "Cross Apply",

    Glad to hear, and my pleasure. 🙂

    What would you see in the way of optimizations? Indexes on the "id"s on the...


    - Craig Farrell

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Brandie Tarvin (5/27/2011)


    I had to add my two cents about Craig's article and blog about it too. I hope that drives more traffic to the site.

    Cool, that's always nice. 🙂


    - Craig Farrell

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  • RE: What is the difference between for and after trigger?

    The two triggers are "instead of" and "after" for SQL Server. One triggers on the data on its way in, the other triggers with access to the data but...


    - Craig Farrell

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  • RE: Lock Escalation

    *facepalm* MUST LEARN TO READ, CHOOSE 2... and I go and click 3 of them.

    D'oh! :blush:


    - Craig Farrell

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Jan Van der Eecken (5/26/2011)


    Anyhow, I hope my comments on that thread didn't put him down even more...

    Nah, you're good, and thanks. 🙂 I just re-read the article to...


    - Craig Farrell

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  • RE: A(nother) discussion on CXPACKET

    CXPacket waits are not bad things directly.

    It means that the internal optimizer isn't balancing the load between the threads perfectly, and some end up waiting. It could be they're...


    - 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: Looking for Work in SQL Server

    Jake Shelton (5/26/2011)


    Hi Craig, glad you replied and I was pleasantly surprised you were around to do so as quickly as you did.

    I cheated. I get notifications when this...


    - 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: How to "key/join" procedural vs. relational records??

    I would use a technique like this. Some notes:

    1) Notice how I built out the dataset to be easily consumed for testing.

    2) This can be continuously expanded as you...


    - Craig Farrell

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Craig Farrell (5/26/2011)


    Anyone tell me if I was a bit too heavy handed here? He didn't get me riled, I'm just not sure it reads well. It looks...


    - 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: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Anyone tell me if I was a bit too heavy handed here? He didn't get me riled, I'm just not sure it reads well. It looks fine to...


    - 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.

    For better assistance in answering your questions[/url] | Forum Netiquette
    For index/tuning help, follow these directions.[/url] |Tally Tables[/url]

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Jan Van der Eecken (5/26/2011)


    GilaMonster (5/26/2011)


    One very uncomfortable PM sent...

    From the posts the person has made, they are totally out of their depth. 6TB DBs, major perf problems and barely...


    - 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: Looking for Work in SQL Server

    Jake Shelton (5/26/2011)


    First off, apologies in advance for the long rant, but this is from spending two years largely on the bench (albeit the last 9 months phasing out into...


    - 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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