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

    ROFL Steven!

    Where the hell did you find that?! 😀 :w00t:


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

    Hey Chrissy,

    A number of folks (myself included) would be happy to help you nail down your requirements and the like and help with the presentation. The best forums for...


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

    Thanks for the kind words folks, and I'm glad people can still get some distance from this article.

    Dird, I'm sorry you disagree but just because it's common doesn't...


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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Nevermind.


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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    GilaMonster (5/22/2013)


    Grant Fritchey (5/22/2013)


    GilaMonster (5/22/2013)


    Oh look... "I don't think that's right... " again. Anyone got a baseball bat? Or a punching bag?

    Will an Arkansas tire thumper work?

    No idea what one...


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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Lynn Pettis (5/22/2013)


    If anyone can find it a provide the url (by clinking and pasting from the message number) I would appreciate it. I have been rereading the past...


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  • RE: Need some query help.

    Need more data. What are you trying to group it by? All you're showing us is what appears to be half a query with the MIN/MAX. What...


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  • RE: Why is my subtree cost so high?!

    The only person I know around these parts who has gone deep enough into the internals to really understand costing and why a particular number would be x would be...


    - Craig Farrell

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    ChrisM@Work (5/22/2013)


    Is it just me or is there really a hike in hideously BS answers this week? Not on this thread of course, the "worker threads" (ahem).

    Well, I've been around...


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  • RE: SQL Query Help

    Yeah, sorry, been working all night and hoped a quickie would get your answer for you. Got some time now so here's your query end to end:

    IF OBJECT_ID ('tempdb..#test1')...


    - Craig Farrell

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  • RE: SQL Query Help

    rocky_498 (5/21/2013)


    INSERT INTO Test1

    VALUES ('1','FirstValue','140/90','1','4')

    INSERT INTO Test1

    VALUES ('2','SecondValue','140/90','1','4')

    INSERT INTO Test1

    VALUES ('3','ThirdValue',null,'4','3')

    INSERT INTO Test1

    VALUES ('4','FourthValue',null,'4','3')

    Select

    * from test1 t1

    ...


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  • RE: Why is my subtree cost so high?!

    Costs are guidelines and SQL tends to overestimate XML breakouts in my experience. I don't see anything particularly strange here, however. Also, this is an estimated query plan.

    Are...


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  • RE: Initial data dumps

    I don't usually say this but your problem is a bit too large for a forum post. The amount of details and discussion required to get into the nitty...


    - Craig Farrell

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  • RE: Memory and tempDB on SQL server

    tony28 (5/21/2013)


    I read that

    - number of temp db files like CPU - 16 ? true or false ?

    Rule of thumb before we starting getting rediculous amounts of cores....


    - Craig Farrell

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  • RE: A Check and Foreign Key Constraint Improves Query Performance

    As usual, this conversation got away from my 'quick reply' ability to respond to the pieces, so my tardiness isn't ignoring it, it's wanting to make sure I had enough...


    - 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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