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  • RE: nvarchar(max) or nvarchar(1000)?

    Jeff Moden (8/2/2013)[hrI guess it depends on what you consider to be a "small performance difference". On only a million rows, the difference between 4.9 and 9.2 seconds might...

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Maybe I'm committing an egregious social error by raising something technical in this forum, but sometimes I thing deprecation lists are at least as political as technical, besides which the...

  • RE: A New Look

    Steve Jones - SSC Editor (8/2/2013)


    We're in disagreement here. I think it is cleaner, and it's not squeezed into half the space. It's narrower, but it's spread out. That's less...

  • RE: Lock mode RangeI-N

    Nice to see a question on locking - it would be good if technical internals stuff like this turned up more often in QOTD.

    The lesson to be taken from the...

  • RE: Question about user and login

    Erland Sommarskog (8/1/2013)


    L' Eomot Inversé (2013-07-31)


    I think that might depend on your auditing policy. Several logins might have the same capabilities, so map to the same usernames (using usernames...

  • RE: LEN and CONVERT

    PHYData DBA (8/1/2013)


    Also from MSDN article http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms190476(v=sql.110).aspx

    Length for a numeric data type is the number of bytes that are used to store the number. Length for a character string or...

  • RE: LEN and CONVERT

    PHYData DBA (8/1/2013)


    Hugo Kornelis (8/1/2013)SELECT LEN(@var) implicitly converts @var to string, because that's the only data type supported for LEN. This conversion is independent of the clients' Windows locale setting,...

  • RE: Database Naming Convention

    Nemeaux (7/31/2013)


    So what do you all think about database names as short as 5 characters in length? Which is a standard that is mandated where I work?

    Sounds crazy to me,...

  • RE: Database Naming Convention

    laurie-789651 (7/31/2013)


    I've never seen any convention on this. It's best to give a DB a short meaningful name with no spaces. Sometimes DB names may be for example...

  • RE: Question about user and login

    Erland Sommarskog (7/31/2013)


    Normally, the name of the database user and the server login are the same. Rarely, there is any reason to use different names. (The one exception is when...

  • RE: DBCC CHECKDB

    GilaMonster (7/31/2013)


    L' Eomot Inversé (7/31/2013)


    and about 175 picked the equally non-existent although less implausible sounding DBCC CHECKFILEGROUP;

    http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms187332.aspx

    DBCC CHECKFILEGROUP (Transact-SQL)

    Checks the allocation and structural integrity of all tables and indexed views...

  • RE: DBCC CHECKDB

    It's a good question.

    It's a bit shocking to see that so far out of just over 600 people about 55 people picked the non-existent and utterly implausible DBCC CHECKCACHE, and...

  • RE: Today's Random Word!

    ChrisM@Work (7/31/2013)


    Spoot

    Ensis

  • RE: LEN and CONVERT

    PHYData DBA (7/30/2013)


    thierry.vandurme (7/30/2013)


    Hi Philip

    that indeed explains it. Thx a lot! I was almost losing my mind over this 🙂

    Chrz

    Thierry

    Thierry,

    That explanation is not correct for TSQL. Style does not...

  • RE: A New Look

    SQLRNNR (7/29/2013)


    Jeff Moden (7/29/2013)


    I just took a look at the home page for the first time this morning. Why in the hell do people think that change is always...

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