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  • RE: DBAs on ACID

    I think it has a lot to do with the mindset difference between an app coder and a database developer. I can go on at length but there's a...

  • RE: Testing Two Tables Data for Equality

    UMG Developer (4/1/2011)


    Craig,

    That is a portion of what I suggested, but it really falls short.

    For example if the first table contains 7 rows with a value of 1 and the...

  • RE: Testing Two Tables Data for Equality

    An incredibly quick and dirty way:

    CREATE TABLE #T1 (ID INT);

    CREATE TABLE #T2 (ID INT);

    INSERT INTO #T1 VALUES (1)

    INSERT INTO #T1 VALUES (2)

    INSERT INTO #T1 VALUES (3)

    INSERT INTO #T2 VALUES (1)

    INSERT...

  • RE: Help!!!

    Ninja's_RGR'us (4/1/2011)


    That's great, but if you removed the inner joins altogether, this would run probably 5 times faster that it is at the moment...

    :blink: So would removing 2/3s of the...

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    LutzM (4/1/2011)


    Trey Staker (4/1/2011)


    Congrats Paul!! IMHO he was an MVP way before Microsoft realized it.

    seconded.

    CONGRATS, Paul!

    Well deserved and long due!!

    Thirded, very well deserved. Congratulations.

  • RE: Querying a large table with an odd criteria

    opc.three (3/31/2011)


    Craig Farrell (3/31/2011)


    opc.three (3/31/2011)


    You'll notice that a clustered index was not defined as part the CREATE TABLE statement and I was pointing out that in the absence of a,...

  • RE: The Chance of Failure

    James Stover (3/31/2011)


    Fortunately the Cloud will save us from failure. Because we know how bullet-proof telecom infrastructure is. It never fails...except when it storms, or during peak solar activity, or...

  • RE: Querying a large table with an odd criteria

    opc.three (3/31/2011)


    You'll notice that a clustered index was not defined as part the CREATE TABLE statement and I was pointing out that in the absence of a, [explicitly] defined clustered...

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    WayneS (3/31/2011)


    I was asked a question a few minutes ago by a developer. Didn't want to laugh in his face, primarily because he didn't believe this either. But at his...

  • RE: T-SQL PROBLEM

    ptlbiren (3/31/2011)


    I AM GETTING FOLLOWING BELOW ERROR

    Msg 8115, Level 16, State 6, Line 14

    Arithmetic overflow error converting varchar to data type numeric.

    And also correction in above update statement it is...

  • RE: T-SQL PROBLEM

    CELKO (3/31/2011)


    Please post real DDL. Learn to use ISO-11179 rules for the data element names, avoid needless dialect and use ISO-8601 temporal formats, codes and so forth. People cannot read...

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Grant Fritchey (3/31/2011)


    Craig Farrell (3/31/2011)


    Grant Fritchey (3/31/2011)


    Jeez, that guy (or girl) is lost. One more response and then I'm done. I'm the Scary DBA, not the Saintly DBA.

    Oh, him. ...

  • RE: The Chance of Failure

    Tom Bakerman (3/31/2011)


    This seems like rehashing old news. I have vague memories from a database class I took in the 80s where we talked about an airlines data center...

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Grant Fritchey (3/31/2011)


    Jeez, that guy (or girl) is lost. One more response and then I'm done. I'm the Scary DBA, not the Saintly DBA.

    Oh, him. Yeah, I gave up...

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Roy Ernest (3/31/2011)


    Topic Change. But Steve, you can delete this post if it is against any rules of the forum. I know that some of the people hanging around here...

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