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  • RE: Foreign key constraints...WHY??

    Steve Jones - Editor (4/5/2010)


    I'll stand by my "design w/o RI is poor."

    May I substitute the word poor by the word wrong? 😉

  • RE: Transaction Log

    BSavoie (1/5/2010)


    As developers, we tend to think of a log as some container that records some non-critical detail about an event that happened in the past.

    That's one of the many...

  • RE: Issue with a Decimal column in a table

    Use data conversion task instead of sql exec task.

  • RE: Mixing tables from different databases/applications into one database

    Three reasons not to do it...

    1- Security administration,

    2- Backup/Recovery strategy,

    3- Escalability

  • RE: results per db

    Not totally sure about the question but sp_MSforeachdb allows to execute a T-SQL statement against all databases in the SQL Server instance.

    Hope this helps.

  • RE: Career Advice

    Most DBA in the team I work with are over 40 years old; not too late for you.

    Reading your post it looks like you have some exposure to SQL Server...

  • RE: Foreign key constraints...WHY??

    david_wendelken (4/4/2010)


    At this point, my friend, said, "Ok. How about I shift the project schedule around a bit so I can be done by the end of the year,...

  • RE: Any Recommended Sites or Books for Practising SQL/SQL Server

    I would start by installing SQL Server and playing around on included test database, BOL will be your best friend throughout your career.

    Good luck.

  • RE: INSERTED DUPLICATE RECORDS

    Ramoncito Medina (11/22/2007)


    I enforce the "no duplicates" via my vb program and it is working.

    It's not joined, the data are directly inserted in the table from a text file via...

  • RE: INSERTED DUPLICATE RECORDS

    Ramoncito Medina (11/20/2007)


    What would be the probable cause of the duplication of the records?

    Poor design - there is no PK in affected table or PK was poorly defined otherwise no...

  • RE: Foreign key constraints...WHY??

    Actually I was more concerned about "Sometimes the business requirement is to BE SEEN to have an application on a topic and pretending it works correctly "... scary :crying:

  • RE: Relational Model Advantages

    Tom.Thomson (4/4/2010)


    If I seem to be confrontational here, that's intentional - David Portas' confrontational and unsubstantiated claim about defects in SQL compared to languages like C++ which contain far more...

  • RE: Foreign key constraints...WHY??

    david_wendelken (4/4/2010)


    I start with the premise that the data is supposed to be valid. That's, on occasion, NOT a business requirement at all. (Sometimes the business requirement is...

  • RE: Sql Query on one table sub query required

    No need for an inline view a.k.a. subquery.

    Just joing Employee table with itself - use different aliases.

  • RE: Foreign key constraints...WHY??

    Paul White NZ (4/3/2010)


    PaulB-TheOneAndOnly (4/2/2010)


    sumit.joshij (4/2/2010)


    SO when we create the relation between the PK and FK it check the statistics for PK and FK. it can take time for a...

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