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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    GilaMonster (2/18/2011)


    Craig Farrell (2/18/2011)


    Stefan proved to me he's a much better abuser of fools than I am. May I request recruiting his assistance? 🙂

    No! Leave Lennie alone. We don't...


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  • RE: RAID 5

    Two drives are RAID 0 or 1, Three minimum for RAID 5. Why:

    Raid 1 is a mirror. 1 drive worth of data with two drives involved.

    Raid 5 is...


    - 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?

    Koen Verbeeck (2/18/2011)


    Gianluca Sartori (2/18/2011)


    Do you remember Lennie, the guy with sock-puppets friends?

    He's back again. Nothing worth worrying about, at the moment.

    http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1066085-9-1.aspx

    I just read the thread you linked to in...


    - Craig Farrell

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  • RE: Select records form lasthour

    Jeff Moden (2/17/2011)


    Craig Farrell (2/16/2011)


    and we haven't gotten to 8/2/2011 yet (I read it as 2010 for some reason) so yes, it's after an hour ago... LOL

    DD/MM/YYYY 😉 It's...


    - Craig Farrell

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  • RE: How to split/extrapolate single records by date range into multiple records

    Jeff Moden (2/17/2011)


    It's not my job to judge but I have to say it anyway, Craig... well done not only on the usage of the Tally Table, but also on...


    - Craig Farrell

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  • RE: Future for DBAs?

    Gianluca Sartori (2/18/2011)


    power chords. 😛

    Rockband DBA for the win!


    - Craig Farrell

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  • RE: Have an Extra Beer!

    There is only one proper hyper-caffeinated reply to to this editorial.

    *BUUUUUUUUUUUUUuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuurrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrppppp....*


    - 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: Finding sets of records

    tacy.highland (2/17/2011)


    "You want all caseIDS with a blank closedate and a casetypeid of 100, 102 or 131, that don't have any associated caselogs that have a closedate of blank [or...


    - Craig Farrell

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  • RE: Need some help with query taking forever

    We'd need to see the execution plans for the queries to really help you here. If you need some help doing that the link in my sig for index/tuning...


    - 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: Finding sets of records

    tacy.highland (2/17/2011)


    Oh Craig, this is so close. I may not necessarily understand it right off the bat, but it looks so close.

    Let's fix that before we continue, or the...


    - Craig Farrell

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  • RE: Select records form lasthour

    Then your code should work. In the MyTable DDL, is [date] a field type of DATETIME, or is it VARCHAR() or something else?

    There's no other reasons that code should...


    - Craig Farrell

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  • RE: Select records form lasthour

    Can you run this in a separate query window and tell me if you get one, or two, records back?

    IF OBJECT_ID('tempdb..#MyData') IS NOT NULL

    DROP TABLE #MyData

    CREATE TABLE #MyData

    ([Date] DATETIME)

    INSERT 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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  • RE: Moving Data with possible changes from Different Locations

    ehlinger (2/17/2011)


    Thanks for all your input.

    Craig, in your opinion could I use the Lookup or Merge Join transforms to compare between the source and the target? If so, which...


    - 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: Select records form lasthour

    Jole84 (2/17/2011)


    Craig Farrell (2/17/2011)


    If you're using my sample data/build, there's no records in the last 14 days then there was in the last hour, so that's correct.

    If you're using your...


    - 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 does it take longer to run a script through a linked server?

    Are all the tables in the script on the foreign server? Does the linked server user have the necessary security to see the statistics on the tables to create...


    - 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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