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  • RE: Need the Price with the Latest Date

    drew.allen (2/1/2011)


    Jeff Moden (2/1/2011)


    drew.allen (1/31/2011)


    Craig Farrell (1/31/2011)


    After having done some other tests, this method seems to be the quickest, especially if you have a solid index on Item/ChangePriceDate

    My tests indicate...

  • RE: RAID & Filegroup Stategy for a new SQL Server 2005 system

    Am I correct that all of this:

    RAID 5: DRIVES F - K

    - F: 34gb (tempdb ONLY)

    - G: 4gb (ROFG1 - Read Only Filegroup for static tables)

    - H: 55gb (FG1 and...

  • RE: What is the log file for...

    GilaMonster (2/4/2011)


    Craig Farrell (2/4/2011)


    mike 57299 (2/4/2011)


    Ok... I am still a little confused. Would I be safe in doing the following:

    1) Checkpoint

    2) Backup Log File

    3) DBCC Shrinkfile ( log file),...

  • RE: Problem restoring

    Ever done a Transaction Log backup? From your description, I'm assuming you're not aware of the necessity. Your Transaction Log has also been growing and growing with no...

  • RE: What is the log file for...

    mike 57299 (2/4/2011)


    Ok... I am still a little confused. Would I be safe in doing the following:

    1) Checkpoint

    2) Backup Log File

    3) DBCC Shrinkfile ( log file), 0, Truncateonly

    4)...

  • RE: I cannot understand these codes

    VBScript. I shoulda guessed. 😉

    Is this a legacy DTS package stored on your 2k5 server?

    Also, to the original question:

    StartDate = CStr(DATEADD("m", DATEDIFF("m", 0, Date) -4, +2))

    EndDate = CStr(DATEADD("m", DATEDIFF("m",...

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    jcrawf02 (2/3/2011)


    Craig Farrell (2/3/2011)


    Steve Jones - SSC Editor (2/3/2011)


    I rarely delete stuff, but that one went so sideways, with almost no technical info, that I decided to whack it.

    Probably for...

  • RE: Performance Best Practices

    Multiple simultaneous recursion testing with timers in UAT environments. Really the only way. You can't test for load interference on an unloaded system. You can guess, but...

  • RE: Opportunity to separate trans logs & tempDB - Sorting out RAID options and best practices

    will s (2/3/2011)


    One more question on log contention: I basically have an OLTP database doing lots of little writes per second, and then an "OLAP" style database on the same...

  • RE: Need the Price with the Latest Date

    Jeff Moden (2/4/2011)


    Craig Farrell (2/3/2011)


    Hm, you appear to have hit on something here... especially depending on the indexing.

    Using this new benchmarking code:

    Wow! Lots'o code! What conclusion do you...

  • RE: How to Access SQL Database Over the Web

    My only comment on that article is to make sure your firewall CLOSES the SQL Server's ports. You still have to expose that server to internet access. Lock...

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    LutzM (2/3/2011)


    Craig Farrell (2/3/2011)


    ...

    Is it bad that I consider the 'Don't Feed The Trolls' sign a challenge to see if I can manage to piss off a Troll enough to...

  • RE: Need the Price with the Latest Date

    Hm, you appear to have hit on something here... especially depending on the indexing.

    Using this new benchmarking code:

    SET NOCOUNT ON

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

    ...

  • RE: What is the log file for...

    mike 57299 (2/3/2011)


    I'm it. We are using full recovery mode. We do a full backup everyday at 3am and transactional backups from 6am - 8pm everyday.

    That seems a...

  • RE: How to call a stored proc with parameters in a OLE DB (or ADO.Net) Data Source?

    You won't be able to parse, unfortunately, with the parameters. Turn bypass prepare to true, make sure your parameters are named 0, 1, 2 (etc), and give her a...

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