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  • RE: Waits issues

    azhar.iqbal499 (5/2/2011)


    Thanks for your valuable time,

    Attached image file explain Memory settings of our server.

    Thanks

    Azhar

    6400 MB of RAM used by SQL Server on an 8 gig system. Can you confirm...


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  • RE: Primary key and Foreign key on same column

    You're correct, it's valid, but pointless. SQL doesn't stop you from doing it, but it has no effect.

    Basically you're saying make sure my ID exists when my ID exists....


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  • RE: EAV's and NVP's are bad. So... What do YOU use as an alternative?

    Jeff Moden (5/1/2011)


    I've just read a dozen articles/posts where people absolutely condemn the use of EAV's (Entity, Attribute, Value) and NVP's (Name, Value Pair) tables and lambasted anyone who stood...


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  • RE: Waits issues

    GilaMonster (5/1/2011)


    Craig Farrell (5/1/2011)


    Badly, badly phrased. I meant drilled into it further regarding memory swaps and the like. I have a feeling he's ending up in the swapfile...


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  • RE: Waits issues

    GilaMonster (5/1/2011)


    Craig Farrell (5/1/2011)


    Azhar, I'm surprised noone brought this up before. Latches are primarily memory objects.

    Err, I did... 😉

    "Excuse me, waitress? I'll take my foot with ketchup...


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  • RE: SQL aggregation

    seanhalvers (5/1/2011)


    Glad to know there is a name for this type of thing :-D.

    In regards to:

    1). Yes, everything eventually rolls up to a single parent. It may seem...


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  • RE: Tally OH! An Improved SQL 8K “CSV Splitter” Function

    Thanks Jeff. It's great to walk with you through your beer-popsicle thought process, and for all the work you did here.

    I thought I was the only one who would...


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  • RE: Waits issues

    azhar.iqbal499 (4/30/2011)


    OS:Window Server 2003 Enterprize R 2 64 bit

    RAM: 8GB

    SQL Server: MS SQL Server 2008 R2 64-bit Enterprize

    Azhar, I'm surprised noone brought this up before. Latches are primarily memory...


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  • RE: SQL aggregation

    Hey Sean.

    What you're dealing with here is a Hierarchal self-join. You usually hear of them in regards to either OrgCharts, or Bills of Materials. I'm not sure what...


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  • RE: Index Rebuilding

    Syed Jahanzaib Bin hassan (5/1/2011)


    first thing is to create script of index rebuilding from SSIS and execute 5 to 15 indexes at a time as your space and execute log...


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  • RE: SSIS table to table date change

    Right, that's on the oracle side. What we need to do confirm that your ODBC driver is taking that to the SSIS as datetime. You need to look...


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  • RE: abandon Redgate for Compellent?

    crainlee2 (4/29/2011)


    Great questions, Craig.

    We only use Compellent's simple replays (snapshots/backups) for the database backup files produced by SQL Server's regular backup operations.

    Interesting. So you're not using the SAN...


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  • RE: Find all orders that have EXACTLY the same items

    LutzM (4/30/2011)


    removed. doesn't work under a different test condition...

    Well, Lutz, if it makes you feel any better, neither does mine. I forgot the order by in the correlated subquery...


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  • RE: abandon Redgate for Compellent?

    You mention you use simple backups. If you have full backups and need point in time restoration capability, can compellent's snapshots deal with this? I'm assuming it can't...


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  • RE: Using a View as an abstraction for a table

    STherrien-978820 (4/29/2011)


    Well I'm a DBA first, C# developer second, web developer third, so I fully agree with a preference toward a centralized CRUD for immediate performance and centralization of logic.

    My...


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