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Thanks for the feedback. I haven't tried it with a linked server query.
Where possible I base my articles and experiments on the sample databases Adventureworks, Northwind or Pubs simply...
August 11, 2011 at 1:57 pm
That's unfortunate actually. I now live in the south part of America and have been trying very hard to not pick up this southern drawl. It's horrible.
"I've got...
July 30, 2011 at 3:13 pm
Not yet but close.
My experience, and I've had a lot of it, is similar to your own.
I have seen it work in an e-commerce site where there was a large...
July 27, 2011 at 2:35 pm
So a bit value is 1 or 0
A date is 20110728
A Money value is 65000
If money is a whole value then why not use an INT?
If money is a decimal...
July 27, 2011 at 2:23 pm
What proportion of reads do you have to writes?
Can you subdivide what you do along a product line basis?
Can you break your database out into separate DBs for customers, products...
July 27, 2011 at 2:10 pm
The InnoDB engine has a default page size of 16K which is global to the engine.
The MySQL web site says you can recompile the code to anything between 4K and...
July 27, 2011 at 1:00 pm
If you accept the premise that your surrogate keys are going to be BIGINT values then you could try the following
The right most 6 characters are just a sequential number
The...
July 25, 2011 at 4:01 pm
Any views or procs that reference objects in your CONFIG database?
anything that uses cross database ownership chaining?
July 24, 2011 at 12:55 pm
What exactly are you trying to achieve?
Are you attempting to come up with some sort of key generator?
Whereas a uniqueidentifier is 16 bytes a bigint is 8 but random keys...
July 24, 2011 at 12:49 pm
This would be on my list of things to avoid.
The nearest I've seen to a "safe" solution was where the tables for which these actions were allowed were stored in...
July 24, 2011 at 11:49 am
It's taken me a long time to wean myself of querying sysobjects, using GETDATE() etc.
I'm finding I'm dealing with disparate data sources so focussing on ANSI standard commands does eventually...
July 24, 2011 at 11:32 am
Do you actually use the XML datatype within SQL Server for anything other than the storage of XML data?
What I am getting at is if all you want to do...
July 24, 2011 at 11:18 am
I take it your DOMAIN\Administrator account has permissions to both SQL Server and the file system where the replication snapshot files are kept?
Just asking because some places block network and...
July 24, 2011 at 11:14 am
When I'm interviewing people all my questions can be attributed to 3 meta-questions
1. Can they do the job
2. Will they do the job
3. Will they fit in.
The...
July 20, 2011 at 4:30 pm
The endless pursuit of cheaper goods strikes me as a typical case of propping a ladder against a branch then sawing the wrong side of the ladder!
In the UK some...
July 17, 2011 at 6:29 am
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