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  • RE: Powershell Functions

    Nice question. Yesterday's was so bad it had me despairing of QotD, today you've restored my faith.

  • RE: Create Procedure

    it would have been a nice question if the right answer had been correct, but with the nonsensical and simply applling "correct" answer it must be in the running for...

  • RE: Today's Random Word!

    Steve Jones - SSC Editor (11/5/2015)


    No snow

    ๐Ÿ™

    Grey Christmas

  • RE: Risks of NOLOCK, part 1

    Kim Crosser (11/4/2015)


    TomThomson (11/4/2015)


    However, the use of NOLOCK still increases both the worker time and the elapsed time. These are the results I get:-

    SP......... cached_time............exec count.. AvWorkerTime.. tot_wt...min_WT.. max_WT...AvElapsedTime....

  • RE: Today's Random Word!

    DonlSimpson (11/4/2015)


    Weak

    frail

  • RE: Risks of NOLOCK, part 1

    Kim Crosser (11/3/2015)


    Thank you for all the work here, but I think the rollbacks and "update" transactions in your test scenario may be creating some of the difference.

    That the rollbacks...

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Jeff Moden (11/3/2015)


    No takers on the job description I posted a while back?

    If taking wouldn't lead to my wife putting out a contract on me (:w00t: exaggeration) I...

  • RE: A call to โ€˜LogonUserWโ€™ failed with error code : โ€˜1385โ€™

    Brandie Tarvin (11/4/2015)


    Okay, so the problem is that I can't post the code for my stored procedure. Grrrrr.

    See attached text file.

    Perhaps it could be those " characters? I haven't...

  • RE: Risks of NOLOCK, part 1

    I looked some more at the amount of performance difference caused by NOLOCK (when it is safe) and because 1 or 2 percent seemed rather tight I devised some tests.

    I...

  • RE: Risks of NOLOCK, part 1

    Luis Cazares (11/2/2015)


    That's what I thought when answering. And also got it wrong. Yes, the answer is technically right, but might mislead people. It's a good question, though.

    Yes, it's a...

  • RE: Risks of NOLOCK, part 1

    I got this one wrong because I reckoned that when there is no concurrent activity the saving from not requesting shared locks is so small as to be absolutely...

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Eirikur Eiriksson (10/30/2015)


    jasona.work (10/30/2015)


    Brandie Tarvin (10/30/2015)


    Someone needs to have a talk with that David Burrows guy. He's talking crazy in another thread. Like suggesting I could use SQL Server tables...

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    ChrisM@Work (10/29/2015)


    Ed Wagner (10/29/2015)


    yb751 (10/29/2015)


    I was on my last eye twitch yesterday (so to speak) so I put together this image. (attached)

    I was thinking about unleashing it but then I...

  • RE: Which gives the greatest points?

    SQLRNNR (10/31/2015)


    Eirikur Eiriksson (10/30/2015)


    Thank you all for giving this a try;-)

    ๐Ÿ˜Ž

    (mis) Quoting William Edward Hickson

    Tis a lesson you should heed:

    Try, try, try again.

    If at first you don't succeed,

    Try, try,...

  • RE: Today's Random Word!

    happygeek (10/30/2015)


    Peace

    Treaty

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