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  • RE: DB Design Question

    NORMALISATION

    Normalise when it is practical to do so.  If you have a sales by day of week arrangement then there would be little point in normalising it down to a...

  • RE: Procedure Hit Rate

    Why not use SQL profiler?

  • RE: Best way of using the FTP action?

    If the DTS hangs when running within Enterprise Manager then because the display is modal I cannot get to the current activity.

    Taskmanager shows 100% CPU utilisation with the sqlserv process...

  • RE: Best way of using the FTP action?

    Basically I created the DTS package using the export data wizard then changed all the "CREATE TABLE" SQL tasks to "DELETE FROM" tasks.

    There are twelve database tables.  The wizard creates...

  • RE: Question of the Day for 12 May 2004

    Try updating dtproperties.

    If you have the "allow changes to system tables" disabled then, if it is truly a system table, it should give an error message.

    It doesn't so it isn't.

  • RE: Question of the Day for 12 May 2004

    BOL says that xtype='U' or type='U' means user table.

    The fact that dtProperties is conceptually a system table even though it marked as a user table is neither here nor there.

    It...

  • RE: Question of the Day for 12 May 2004

    I think the dtproperties table thing is a bug in SQL Server because it is flagged internally as a user table.

    To get around it you have to add and OBJECTPROPERTY(id,'IsMSShipped')=0...

  • RE: Question of the Day for 12 May 2004

    I use something similar when assigning rights to stored procedures, but without the cursor.

    I know that this is only an example question but for the scenario listed

    a) I would probably...

  • RE: How do you test a database ?

    There are several sorts of test.

    • Does the database do what it says it should do in the functional requirement spec.
    • Bounds testing.  What happens if I try and enter silly values...
  • RE: status&64=64 ???

    It is a BIT field test.

    • BIT 1 = 1
    • BIT 2 = 2
    • BIT 3 = 4
    • BIT 4 = 8
    • BIT 5 = 16
    • BIT 6 = 32
    • BIT 7 = 64

    The & means BIT...

  • RE: SQL Server Needs Incremental Updates

    I would be curious to know where Sybase ranks along side SQL Server, ORACLE, DB2 etc.

    I have colleagues who are using Sybase on a particular project and because both SQL...

  • RE: SQL Server Needs Incremental Updates

    Could you give examples of the "notable exceptions"?

  • RE: SQL Server Needs Incremental Updates

    I don't like the idea of a huge and radical change to something as fundamental as the SQL.

    Don't get me wrong, I'm enthusiastic about SQL2005 its just that the learning...

  • RE: Users From Hell

    The thing with consultants is that they charge too much to be ignored.

    If the boss hires a consultant and then ignores the consultants advice he may then have to justify...

  • RE: Users From Hell

    I forgot to put in one particular class of user, and I can't think of a smart ass name for them other than "Git".

    The Git insists that some obscure, hard...

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