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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Revenant (7/12/2013)


    I suggest we relegate this to a separate topic, if anyone wants to dwell into it. I do not.

    </rant>

    Fair enough Rev.


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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    L' Eomot Inversé (7/12/2013)


    Evil Kraig F (7/12/2013)[hrFrustration in the southwest due to a horribly porous border (that isn't supposed to be, like the one with Canada). Most of our...


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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Steve Jones - SSC Editor (7/12/2013)


    L' Eomot Inversé (7/12/2013)


    Personally I find it very hard to understand why, some years ago, the USA government/administration decided to instill into operatives in its...


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  • RE: The Job Posting - Do I really have to be the SQL God?

    Glad to know this article is still helping people out. 🙂


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  • RE: Invalid object even though script should never run

    It's failing during the metadata check in the pre-compile, not during actual runtime. This is usually ran into when you're dealing with altered #tmp tables in repeated script runs...


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  • RE: CHARINDEX problem

    You're on target Luis. It's a CHARINDEX and right command usage confusion.

    OP, let's say you have this:

    1234|1234567890

    CHARINDEX (|) will = 5.

    When you RIGHT(string,5) you get 67890.

    What you need to...


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  • RE: CPU Flat lines and numerous Time Outs

    First, I'd start with the basics... have you done a maintenance run for index rebuilds and statistics updates? Your messing with maxdop allows queries to recompile. Something may...


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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Lynn Pettis (7/1/2013)


    Just dropping by to let you know where I am.

    I made it to Bagram last night but looks like I get to hang out here another day (at...


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  • RE: Find lowest populated field, not min value

    I agree with David here, since it's a relatively simple paradigm and a direct order of evaluation you've got. Anything more complex would be overkill, as well as non...


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  • RE: How to prevent SQL Injection Attack from SQL server side

    Aaron,

    Just in case you're not aware, best practice when allowing adhoc queries is to enforce usage of sp_executeSQL, because you can parameterize it and avoid injection attacks that way without...


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  • RE: SSIS Package Configuration Use

    bill.lawler (6/21/2013)


    It appears the best practice is to have a single package configuration file name with instances of the the package configuration stored on each server. This may have been...


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  • RE: need help with using data in a certain way

    Sean,

    It's an orgchart chain with the upper root level removed. You want to find the sublevel's highest association. Highest Association is decided by the lowest ID.

    I just wanted...


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  • RE: OS + ldf or mdf + ldf sharing on RAID?

    Dird (6/21/2013)


    Hi,

    At work today I noticed that most of our SQL Server environments have the same setup:

    2 disks in RAID 1

    4 disks in RAID 5

    The database config also follows this...


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  • RE: performance tunning.

    ekant,

    If you continue to get stuck, one of the things that will help us the most is the .sqlplan. If you take a look in my sig, there's a...


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  • RE: How to prevent SQL Injection Attack from SQL server side

    DKG-967908 (6/20/2013)


    Being a DB Admin can we do something from the SQL server end? if so please can you point out all the suggestions.

    Don't allow ad-hoc querying and restrict the...


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