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  • RE: Clustered Index Internals

    Paul White NZ (3/20/2010)


    Peter Trast (3/20/2010)


    "Dropping and rebuilding a clustered index on a partition scheme may move data to other drives. " ?

    Really? How can that be? The idea of...

    Peter Trast
    Microsoft Certified ...(insert many literal strings here)
    Microsoft Design Architect with Alexander Open Systems

  • RE: Counting spaces

    Another lucky guess 🙂

    When you pipe the results out to a text file, you get:

    StringA,StringB

    hello ,hello (one space after first hello)

    hello ,hello ...

    Peter Trast
    Microsoft Certified ...(insert many literal strings here)
    Microsoft Design Architect with Alexander Open Systems

  • RE: Clustered Index Internals

    "Dropping and rebuilding a clustered index on a partition scheme may move data to other drives. " ?

    Really? How can that be? The idea of the partition is to locate...

    Peter Trast
    Microsoft Certified ...(insert many literal strings here)
    Microsoft Design Architect with Alexander Open Systems

  • RE: Shrinking the transaction log

    wbeaton-664441 (3/18/2010)


    3 of the 4 options are correct. But, this statment can't be true:

    "Reducing the physical size of a log file requires shrinking the file."

    You can truncate a transaction...

    Peter Trast
    Microsoft Certified ...(insert many literal strings here)
    Microsoft Design Architect with Alexander Open Systems

  • RE: How long is a NULL?

    I cannot tell a lie... I ran the code before answering this one. 😛

    I wanted to pick '1234567890' but I wanted to prove I was "right" first. What a surprise!...

    Peter Trast
    Microsoft Certified ...(insert many literal strings here)
    Microsoft Design Architect with Alexander Open Systems

  • RE: SELECT @local_variable

    I got lucky and guessed the one with all of the text... 🙂

    I am not seeing why the concatenation of the inserts occurs... can someone break this down further??

    Peter Trast
    Microsoft Certified ...(insert many literal strings here)
    Microsoft Design Architect with Alexander Open Systems

  • RE: Fun with Decimals

    Great question Julie, even if the explanation was not exactly right. I was unaware of this behaviour, and THAT is the point of asking and discussing it 🙂

    Peter Trast
    Microsoft Certified ...(insert many literal strings here)
    Microsoft Design Architect with Alexander Open Systems

  • RE: Temp Tables

    vk-kirov (12/17/2009)


    It would be much better if the options #2 and #3 where not separated from each other. Neither #2 nor #3 in itself does not trigger SQL Server to...

    Peter Trast
    Microsoft Certified ...(insert many literal strings here)
    Microsoft Design Architect with Alexander Open Systems

  • RE: Question of the Day for 21 Dec 2009

    I had my 14 year old solve it 😛

    I gave it to her without the SQL code and she did a standard alphabet/number decode... I am going to try it...

    Peter Trast
    Microsoft Certified ...(insert many literal strings here)
    Microsoft Design Architect with Alexander Open Systems

  • RE: Answers to Your QOD

    CirquedeSQLeil (3/20/2010)


    Paul White NZ (3/19/2010)


    CirquedeSQLeil (3/19/2010)


    I'll award back points later for everyone on this one since it's not really a fair question, but thanks for all the comments.

    That would be...

    Peter Trast
    Microsoft Certified ...(insert many literal strings here)
    Microsoft Design Architect with Alexander Open Systems

  • RE: Transactions

    It is always a GREAT question when something new (for me) is in it!

    Peter Trast
    Microsoft Certified ...(insert many literal strings here)
    Microsoft Design Architect with Alexander Open Systems

  • RE: Answers to Your QOD

    brdudley (3/19/2010)


    I'm sensing a loophole if we all just cooperate. Since, by the answer, we have been granted responsibility for the correctness of the answer, we ought to all agree...

    Peter Trast
    Microsoft Certified ...(insert many literal strings here)
    Microsoft Design Architect with Alexander Open Systems

  • RE: Answers to Your QOD

    🙂

    Peter Trast
    Microsoft Certified ...(insert many literal strings here)
    Microsoft Design Architect with Alexander Open Systems

  • RE: Voice of the DBA Podcast

    Always pick the first choice when you have no idea 😀

    I hate that too...!

    Peter Trast
    Microsoft Certified ...(insert many literal strings here)
    Microsoft Design Architect with Alexander Open Systems

  • RE: drop

    Doesn't this work all the way back to SQL 7??

    Peter Trast
    Microsoft Certified ...(insert many literal strings here)
    Microsoft Design Architect with Alexander Open Systems

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