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  • RE: XML vs Split for parsing of URL type data

    Antonio:

    My tests with XML vs Numbers/Tally table have shown similar CPU time results, but have had interesting IO differences. Did you include IO stats in your runs? (If...

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  • RE: Pros & Cons of Windows vs Mixed Authentication

    Steve Jones - Editor (4/2/2008)


    Hate to deviate, but apart from what's put down already, both Windows and SQL auth suffer from the problem that anyone can connect with any application...

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  • RE: Choosing between a View and Table-valued function

    TheSQLGuru (4/2/2008)


    G2, your issue seems to be different in nature from my client's. They took the hierarchy as an initial set of data and then joined it to between...

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  • RE: Choosing between a View and Table-valued function

    Jeff Moden (4/1/2008)...

    Heh... I know I'm not supposed to cheat, but I do... I maintain the adjacency model... when there's a change move (not just an insert), the whole...

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  • RE: trigger not called for each record?

    Jeff Moden (4/1/2008)


    Gosh, I hate the idea of replacing one form of recursion with another, but the recursive CTE will at least handle a set even if it is hidden...

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  • RE: whats wrong in the Order By Clause

    Not sure what you're doing here. I tried this:

    create table #TvsRecords (

    LastUpdate datetime,

    TvsRecordID int identity primary key)

    insert into #TvsRecords (lastupdate)

    select '4/1/2005' union all

    select '4/1/2005' union all

    select '4/1/2005' union all

    select...

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  • RE: SELECT * and subtract a couple of fields?!

    Trader Sam (4/2/2008)


    If I need a 'select' that has a lot of columns, I'll script out the source table 'create', then manually edit out the extra stuff.

    Deleting the...

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  • RE: Incorporating business rule

    It looks to me like you're most of the way to where you want to go.

    Turn your logic on the Riders into a function, with @PID as an input, and...

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  • RE: Complex partial string matching

    This is actually a significantly complex subject.

    First, you have to define rules for what "matches any part". For example, "Tub" and "Target" both have the letter "t" in them,...

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  • RE: in and not in question

    If there are any null values in the id field in table B, "not in" will return 0 rows. Since "null" means unknown, you're telling to select all values...

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  • RE: Multiple update aggregate with multiple conditions

    I'm not clear on what the end result of this is. I see the tables, I see a the queries, but without a sample of the starting data and...

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  • RE: Pros & Cons of Windows vs Mixed Authentication

    sblock (4/2/2008)


    Some of the advantages of using windows accounts:

    - Windows accounts can force password changes on a regular basic

    - You don't have imbed passwords in programs or force users to...

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  • RE: SQL Server Table Types

    The article is a reasonably good introduction to the subjects, even though it does have the common flub of assuming table variables are RAM and temp tables are HDD. ...

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  • RE: trigger not called for each record?

    Try this:

    create trigger dbo.updateSettingsTrigger

    after update

    as

    if update(pagename) or update(parentid)

    begin

    ;with CTE (ID, ParentID, Pagename, Breadcrumbs, URLPath) as

    (select id, parentid, pagename, breadcrumbs, urlpath

    from inserted

    union all

    select sitepages.id, sitepages.parentid, sitepages.pagename,

    cte.breadcrumbs + (breadcrumb string),

    cte.urlpath +...

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  • RE: Choosing between a View and Table-valued function

    TheSQLGuru (4/1/2008)


    I have a client with a similar situation. On their system we developed an orghierarchy table that gave both the up and down listing for each org and...

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