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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    GilaMonster (9/17/2011)


    Evil Kraig F (9/17/2011)


    The request? I thought we were just hoping to break Steve's spirit in general.

    CRAP, I've been doing it wrong again!;-)

    Knowing Steve, it'll take far more...

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    GilaMonster (9/17/2011)


    WayneS (9/17/2011)


    Steve Jones - SSC Editor (9/15/2011)


    Please let's not have quotes of every post that counts down from 95, 94, 93.

    I'm going out of town for a few days....

  • RE: Format of CSV output file

    As you are not specifying the parameter @query_result_separator, the separator in your attached file will be space, not comma, so it isn't a CSV file. If your data doesn't...

  • RE: Dotted Line Relationships Are Everywhere – Get Good at Them!

    Personally I like dotted lines. It's more than 40 years since last I had a job where there weren't any, and I suspect that most people work with more...

  • RE: Today's Random Word!

    Ray K (9/16/2011)


    Tom.Thomson (9/16/2011)


    Ray K (9/16/2011)


    Daniel Bowlin (9/16/2011)


    Zoom

    Schwartz

    (Let's see if anyone picks up on this!)

    Bifigliano

    Tom wins the prize!

    The hard part was choosing between Bifigliano and Profigliano.

    No-one else chose either -...

  • RE: isnull

    okbangas (9/17/2011)


    Well, we may have different opinions here. The sum of a column in an empty record set does not make any sense to me. The only aggreate function which...

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    WayneS (9/17/2011)


    On a side note, it looks like you were trying to make the above a hyperlink. You need to start it off with [ url=] (without the space), like...

  • RE: How to run commands on a changing set of databases

    If you have your database independent command sting in a varchar(??) variable @command, you can do something like

    use master

    go

    begin

    declare @crlf varchar(2)=char(13)+char(10)

    declare @sql varchar(max) = ''

    select @sql = @sql+'use '+name+@crlf+@command+@crlf+'go'+@crlf

    ...

  • RE: isnull

    okbangas (9/17/2011)


    This is indeed the correct behavior if no rows are matching:

    select SUM(ISNULL(object_id, 0))

    from tempdb.sys.objects

    where type = 'X'

    <rant>Correct only in that the mathematically illiterate cretin who determined this part...

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    GilaMonster (9/17/2011)


    Tom.Thomson (9/17/2011)


    Could domeone with a really good understanding of the interaction between indexes and locking have a look and join the discussion, please?

    I already did, but seeing as I'm...

  • RE: Understanding which missing indexes should be created

    GilaMonster (9/17/2011)


    Tom.Thomson (9/17/2011)


    Maybe you need both for deadlock avoidance.

    It's possible, but I wouldn't start with both on the off chance that a deadlock may occur.

    Looks as if you were replying...

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    The responses to this question struck me as being carelessly wrong, so I jumped in with a contradictory response. Could domeone with a really good understanding of the interaction between...

  • RE: Understanding which missing indexes should be created

    Maybe you need both for deadlock avoidance.

    This happens roughly as follows: Any query that updates one or more included values in one or more rows of the included values has...

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    ALZDBA (9/16/2011)


    Tom.Thomson (9/16/2011)


    I forgot one:

    5) risks of using backup log to append a log backup to an existing file containing log backups instead of always creating a new backup file...

  • RE: Advice on Reducing Database size

    How large has your log file grown? If the database is in simple recovery mode, something strange must be happening to make log files grow large - maybe something...

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