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  • RE: Event Handlers and Errors and HeadDesk, oh my!

    Okay, I found the problem... the error message just was never actually showing up in my output for some reason until I created a much more simplified version of the...


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  • RE: Filtering a query

    You need to think of this in steps. First you need to find the first order in your system for each customer. This involves a MIN() and a...


    - Craig Farrell

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  • RE: Usage of ad-hoc SQL Express instances within an organzation

    My personal opinion, when I find out about an ad-hoc instance of SQL server out there, is to attempt to find the owner(s), and discuss with them bringing them onto...


    - 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: Event Handlers and Errors and HeadDesk, oh my!

    GSquared (2/28/2011)


    What happens if, instead of a message box, you log the message to a file or table?

    I currently have logging in the SSIS package shipped to a table, it...


    - Craig Farrell

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  • RE: Commuting Pain

    When it comes to telecommuting, I'm an odd duck. I'm almost always an hourly consultant, and just about every employer wants chair warming to be part of the position....


    - 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: Will You Become a Master?

    Jill-771690 (2/28/2011)


    I often find that expertise is not so much “knowing more”, but having the understanding of how many things are part of a single idea or pattern. The Masters...


    - 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?

    Hey Jeff, your mailbox is full again. I didn't want to keep cluttering up the newbie's thread regarding unioning and the like, he's got enough confusion going on, 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: why the avatar picture you use

    Some days I think I know exactly how that dog is feeling at that moment...


    - 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: Issue with adding Identity Column

    Amit, not really. You're basically forcing an update to every row in the table.

    You can do some things that will help with availability, like making a copy...


    - 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: Will You Become a Master?

    I'll second all the emotions about becoming a master and throw another bone in the mix. Po and Yoda were Old, with a capital O. I wanna do...


    - 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 solve this 2 query

    Sorry for the delay, I was fiddling with the code you provided Jeff, trying to see what I'd not been paying attention to. I've known about a partitioned view,...


    - 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 solve this 2 query

    Jeff Moden (2/27/2011)


    I never know how someone will take my rather direct questions because it's difficult to write the correct "tone" into such posts. Thanks for taking it the...


    - Craig Farrell

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  • RE: How to solve this 2 query

    Jeff Moden (2/27/2011)


    Interesting... why do you think this is such a bad practice especially if you don't have the Enterprise Edition? What would you use instead of 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: SQL 2005 Transaction Logs

    aa.nichol (2/25/2011)


    The DB is 43gb. I have now managed to shrink the LOG file, thanks to your instructions and it went down to 100mb.

    I did not have the room...


    - 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: Index Strategy for OLTP Tables

    TheSQLGuru (2/25/2011)


    And what is your preference when you notice that an index gets fragmented from 0% to say 90% after 24hrs? Do you reorganize it on a daily basis or...


    - 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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