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  • RE: Pick on Windows Poll

    Windows for Warehouses? Shortly after the release of Windows for Workgroups.

    Then there was a Geordie version of Windows.

    For those of you who don't know what Geordies are, they...

  • RE: The Pitfalls of Foreign Keys

    One of the great disillusionments of my career is seeing the backend databases for applications that are making money hand over fist.

    I would agree that many of the database designs...

  • RE: The Pitfalls of Foreign Keys

    I didn't argue for well tested stored procedures replacing DRI. That was the opinion of Phil Factor.

    I strongly believe that whether to use DRI is a design issue and...

  • RE: bcp question

    Possibly something to do with the time taken to open/close a connection to the database?

  • RE: Utility Procedures

    What I meant was that, depending on the tool and font, double underscore is not visibly that different from single underscore.

  • RE: Question of the Day for 01 Mar 2006

    COS(1) produces 0.54

    SIN = Opposite/Hypotenuse

    COS = Adjacent/Hypotenuse

    TAN = Adjacent/Opposite

    SIN, COS, TAN functions in SQL server work on radians NOT degrees. As a circle is represented by 2 PI radians...

  • RE: Utility Procedures

    I would steer well clear of depending on sp double-underscore as a determiner for bespoke stored procedures.

    Firstly, a double-underscore isn't obviously different from a single underscore.

    Secondly, I feel it...

  • RE: Using Cursors in Recursive calls

    Take a step backwards.

    What is the business problem that you are trying to solve

  • RE: HOW TO CREATE A DATABASE INSTALLER

    The way that I do it is to create a standard batch file that contains a bunch of OSQL scripts.

    All my objects are generated in scripts which I break down...

  • RE: Undo Last Query

    In hindsight, no.

    With foresight:

    Do the update with a begin transaction but commit transaction commented out. If you get an unexpected number of records updated then run the commit.

    My...

  • RE: Can someone please recommend resources for learning DTS

    http://www.sqldts.com/

    Look at their book list

    The professional Sql server DTS by Wrox is OK but I wouldn't pay full wack for it as it is a little dated now.

    If...

  • RE: Is Count(*) faster than count(1)

    If you look in sysindexes and look at any clustered indexes there is a rowcnt field that contains the approximate count for the number of rows in the tables to...

  • RE: xp_cmdshell winzip string constuction help plz

    Firstly add the path of the WZZIP.EXE files to the PATH environment variable. Having done so restart MSSQLSERVER and SQLSERVERAGENT. You should now be able to call WZZIP...

  • RE: Configuring Memory for SQL EE on Windows 2003 with 4GB

    This suggests to me that if you have a SQL Server with 4GB RAM then there is little benefit in allowing it to look beyond the 2GB threshold?

    The...

  • RE: Is Count(*) faster than count(1)

    Count(Field) will produce a count of the non-null values so you have to use count(*) or count(1) in any case.

    Try running DBCC UPDATEUSAGE(0) then running sp_spaceused

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