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  • RE: 10% Fill Factor

    How often does the table get reindexed?  Fill factor only applies when indexes are built or rebuilt, if there's no maintenance plan then it has no effect.

    I agree that 10%...

  • RE: Another RAID Questions...

    I agree that option 4 is the best choice, with a 64K stripe size.  Don't solicit any more advice from whoever it was that said 8K.

    If I was absolutely determined to...

  • RE: Backup to Multiple Directories?

    I use up to 4 directories for backups, based on database size.  Each directory is on a separate drive that doesn't have any of the SQL data or log files...

  • RE: Installation best practices

    You should create 1 tempdb data file per actual CPU core (not counting hyperthreading), even if they are on the same drive.  If you have the luxury of using separate...

  • RE: 5 TB database backup

    LiteSpeed Pro's object level recovery feature can restore an individual table to a different table, database, and/or server.  It can even export a table from a backup to a CSV...

  • RE: 5 TB database backup

    My experience with a 200+GB database has been:

    Backup to network share:  Over 4 hours, double that if anything else is tying up the database.

    SQL Backup to four local drives: Backup finished...

  • RE: Accessing Package Variable in a Script

    Variables are more complex than they appear.  The design-time value is saved in the dtsx file that defines the package.  No run-time action will rewrite the package file to change...

  • RE: SQL Server Security: Pros and Cons of Application Roles

    There are some gotchas with app roles, but I think the major pro of letting users perform actions through an application without giving them any rights to the data or...

  • RE: Question of the Day for 11 Jul 2007

    The question was "When using the Fuzzy Grouping transformation, how can you determine how closely two different columns match each other?"

    The reference in the answer says "_score, a value...

  • RE: Question of the Day for 11 Jul 2007

    The given answer is wrong.  The _score field "indicates the similarity of the input row to the canonical row", it doesn't say anything about any particular pair of columns unless...

  • RE: Return the most recent row

    The easiest way to get the one most recent record from some group of records is simply SELECT TOP 1

    SELECT

    TOP 1 id

  • RE: Programming an SSIS Transform and UI

    You need to add custom properties to your component that allow you to enter the expression and replacement strings, then add a boolean custom column property that lets you flag which...

  • RE: Script to tell if a file with .BAK extension exists

    I agree that it might be easier to query the backup history tables to verify that all the backups that should have been written, were written successfully.

    But this script will...

  • RE: Distinct and Max

    select

    email,

          max(case when type ='click'

  • RE: Help with a stored procedure

    The original query returns one row for each store, then does subqueries returning a totals column for each store in every row.  Surely that can't be what you want.  Also,...

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