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  • RE: Today's Random Word!

    Profligate

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  • RE: get data from two tables

    Actually a FULL OUTER JOIN is probably going to perform better. I believe that article says as much.

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  • RE: Index Structures

    At the last PASS summit, I had a chance to talk for about an hour at breakfast with a man from Microsoft who is part of the BOL team. ...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    GilaMonster (5/26/2010)


    Is it me, or is this week particularly bad in the 'bad questions' dept?

    Gail, are you saying the posted questions are getting worse?

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  • RE: Jst a query......

    The response was rude, insulting, and totally inappropriate. It earned the OP a spot on my personal blacklist.

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  • RE: What will this return?

    I got it wrong. I answered "purple". :doze:

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  • RE: Index Structures

    And we all know that the "B" in "B-Tree" as defined by Microsoft, means balanced, and not binary. Right?

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  • RE: Index Structures

    A thought provoking question anyway....

    I think "unique" should count twice or not at all. You can have unique clustered indexes and unique nonclustered indexes.

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  • RE: Need some help with query

    You are trying to join on characters in the middle of a string. There is no way for an index to help with a join that vague....

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  • RE: Today's Random Word!

    Understanding and applying Paul White

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  • RE: Today's Random Word!

    Priapism

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    My wife had an interesting thought about plagiarism, which was that websites should NOT take down those articles. Instead they should keep the title, the name of the...

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  • RE: Clustered indexes

    Tom.Thomson (5/11/2010)


    Cliff Jones (5/6/2010)


    What threw me off was "All nonclustered indexes include the clustered index columns in their index pages" . I thought this was incorrect because the clustered...

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  • RE: Free Advice or Free Consulting

    Well said, and too true, Grant. The discussion has been interesting too.

    Forums really shouldn't be a resource of last resort, especially in an emergency. A forum is...

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  • RE: Subroutines in TSQL

    Sihaab, thanks for posing an interesting topic. This was thought-provoking for me. One thing I'm curious about is how the optimizer would be expected...

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