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  • RE: TRUNCATE TABLE and ROLLBACK TRAN

    vk-kirov (2/6/2012)


    Hugo Kornelis (2/6/2012)


    And 34% of them are for "you can never rollback a truncate table statement"

    Maybe they are Oracle refugees? :hehe: http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Raw+Materials/71108/

    :w00t: AHHH! I've been discovered! Oh well,...

  • RE: Variant Order 2

    This all sounds like yet another reason to never use SQL_VARIANT columns in your database.

  • RE: Licensing Model for 2012

    I think the BI edition looks interesting, but I see a concern. Our data warehouse currently is on 2008 R2 Enterprise, using CAL licenses. Looking at Microsoft's editions...

  • RE: Network Databases? Is it time to change?

    I've been setting up database backups to occur over the network for years. The primary reason is that not every company I go to has enough disk space directly...

  • RE: Elementary Key Attributes

    L' Eomot Inversé (10/5/2011)


    I wish I knew some more familiar terminology. I suppose for "prime attribute" one can use "key attribute" (although the SQL influence on terminology means that...

  • RE: An interview with Jeff Moden: Exceptional DBA of 2011 and natural helper

    I'd just like to say how glad I am that Jeff is a part of the SQL Server community, and say thanks for all I've learned from his writings. ...

  • RE: ACID Properties

    ugh... I always outthink myself, I was sure about durable, but I thought that atomic was also violated since table variables are stored in TempDB but don't participate fully in...

  • RE: The Robot DBA

    Revenant (9/7/2011)


    ...managers get about 60 percent decisions right, no matter how many consulting bucks and effort go into that decision.

    That's 10 percent better than to flip a coin.

    heh-heh... that makes...

  • RE: A Cast of Thousands

    I've worked at some places that you'd think the previous DBA was more along the lines of Ed Wood! :hehe: Interesting Editorial, I like the visual of thinking of...

  • RE: Query to capture currently executing long-time queries

    I think it looks pretty good. In my query I use for simmilar purposes, I do a couple extra joins:

    INNER JOIN sys.dm_exec_sessions s ON r.session_id = s.session_id

    LEFT OUTER JOIN...

  • RE: Speeding up Data Access Part 1 - Missing Indexes

    k.lasuy (7/19/2011)


    If i understand correct i should add the indexes in de included_columns column.

    as Nadrek mentioned, you have to take the information that dm_db_missing_index_details gives you with a...

  • RE: Speeding up Data Access Part 1 - Missing Indexes

    naweed.akhtar (7/19/2011)


    Which column is the 'number of reads' column?

    There's actually 3 columns to look at in the query, all are from dm_db_index_usage_stats:

    USER_SEEKS, USER_SCANS, USER_LOOKUPS. When those 3 numbers are...

  • RE: Stairway to SQL Server Indexes: Step 5, Included Columns

    Mike Dougherty-384281 (7/13/2011)


    ...In the case of rarely-write, frequently read data with groups that are sometimes requested via either 2nd or 3rd key specificity in the where clause, I would expect...

  • RE: Slowly changing dimensions using T-SQL MERGE

    David Greenberg-358875 (6/20/2011)


    Very Good Article. I have a question. Suppose you have a dimension that contains certain columns that are type 2 where you want to keep track of historical...

  • RE: SP 2 on SQL 2008 Failing

    Oops, forgot I never posted back what we did... After having Microsoft inspect the cluster, they determined there was corruption in the cluster setup database (nothing to do with SQL...

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