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  • RE: SSIS task taking time but SP called is quick

    Most likely they're validating. Turn on Delay Validation.

    Also, make sure you're using what's become a defacto standard for SSIS called procs:

    SET NOCOUNT ON;

    SET FMTONLY OFF;

    WHILE 1=0

    BEGIN

    -- Result set for...


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  • RE: Client does not want to pay overtime. How to deal with it ?

    I've been consulting for years, and every now and then this lovely little item pops up.

    I ignore the 30 minute calls on the weekend if I don't have to login...


    - Craig Farrell

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  • RE: Very frustrating performance tuning!

    Merge is, generally, better than hash.

    That said...

    You mentioned you created new statistics, but did you update with fullscan? On BOTH systems? I'm wondering if the Test system is...


    - Craig Farrell

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  • RE: Converting Rows to columns

    PIVOT


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  • RE: FOR XML and trying to avoid nested cursors

    Not sure if you're still on this thread, Tavis, but that's a neat trick. May require some on the fly trickery to my base data to NULL, child the...


    - Craig Farrell

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  • RE: Performance difference between LIKE and CHARINDEX?

    Like will perform more optimally when used like a LEFT(). Otherwise they're both going to scan. LIKE I believe has a better chance of using Full Text Indexing...


    - Craig Farrell

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  • RE: Gauging slackerness via code samples

    RP_DBA (3/8/2013)


    The discussion I was involved in didn't key on messy, poorly performing code but rather on routinely taking shortcuts and not following best practices.

    Depends on the best practice....


    - Craig Farrell

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  • RE: ETL Standards

    For SSIS, there's a few things I recommend. Most of them revolve around Configurations.

    I know why standards exist and mostly that's to keep some nut with his own idea...


    - Craig Farrell

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  • RE: Do row filters avoid full table locks?

    As usual, it depends.

    Replication uses locking like anything else. Even if you have a row filter on, unless that's a VERY small row filter (5000 rows or less), the...


    - Craig Farrell

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  • RE: Gauging slackerness via code samples

    I would say no. Random code samples are a poor method, simply because a lot of what we do *is* simple and doesn't need a lot of exposition or intricate...


    - Craig Farrell

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  • RE: Duties of a DBA

    This is an article of mine, but it may help you a bit:

    http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Career/71608/


    - Craig Farrell

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  • RE: Weird Behavior in Data Flow

    Offhand, I have no idea and you're dealing with some really idiosyncratic glitch. I'm relatively sure you won't know for sure unless you call Microsoft and they look into...


    - Craig Farrell

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  • RE: FOR XML and trying to avoid nested cursors

    Tavis,

    That looks awesome, and similar to where I was probably going to end up with self-referencing proc calls but this looks a lot cleaner.

    Thank you for this. Once I...


    - Craig Farrell

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  • RE: Joining to Multiple rows which should really be one row

    Ugh, not a fun process, particularly when row order matters. Don't feel bad about struggling with it, it's neither obvious nor simple.

    Basically you're looking for the quirky update 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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  • RE: Advise on working with XML

    J,

    A few things.

    One, your code seems incomplete. There's BEGINs without ENDs, and there's no real reason to have them there.

    Next, your query plan is incomplete. As...


    - 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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