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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Brandie Tarvin (2/4/2015)


    ... a book called SQL Server 2012 Query Performance Tuning by some guy named Grant Fritchey... Anyone know anything about this Grant guy? Does he know what he's...

  • RE: Estimating time for schema expansion

    Mindy Hreczuck (2/3/2015)


    I have a schema with 9 fields originally set at char(32) and will be expanded to char(64).

    I'm trying to figure out which databases this expansion will take...

  • RE: Won't convert to decimal

    ma701ss (2/3/2015)


    Hi,

    I'm trying to insert into a table from an XML file. The mapping works OK however there is a problem with one of the fields. It is field name...

  • RE: Please Help Improve My While Loop

    Quick thought, this code looks very inefficient, while the logic is rather simple, should be straight forward to construct a set based code for the operation. Could you post DDL...

  • RE: FOR XML PATH SQL - 2 part inquiry

    Quick thought, maybe this will help

    😎

    USE tempdb;

    GO

    SET NOCOUNT ON;

    DECLARE @TXML XML = '<ROOT><code>1</code><code>2</code><code>3</code><code /></ROOT>';

    SELECT

    ROW_NUMBER() OVER

    (

    ...

  • RE: A delicious dilemma

    sqldriver (2/2/2015)


    Eirikur Eiriksson (2/2/2015)


    Quick thought, the problem itself is straightforward, the issue is more the schema, normalize it and the solution is easy.

    😎

    That was one of the first things I...

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Grant Fritchey (2/2/2015)


    Sioban Krzywicki (2/2/2015)


    SQLRNNR (2/2/2015)


    Ed Wagner (2/2/2015)


    I only have Standard Edition, but I can't imagine running a production instance on SQL Express. Maybe I'm just spoiled.

    I have to...

  • RE: A delicious dilemma

    Quick thought, the problem itself is straightforward, the issue is more the schema, normalize it and the solution is easy.

    😎

  • RE: CASE vs ISNULL? Which is faster?

    Quick thought, isnull is implemented as a case statement under the bonnet/hood, performance tends to be the same for equal statements.

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  • RE: The Number that shouldn't be a number

    Jeff Moden (2/1/2015)


    jarick 15608 (2/1/2015)


    How about storing all of the data in XML in a compressed binary string and using and using am image datatype to store it in. ...

  • RE: The Number that shouldn't be a number

    jwiseh (1/31/2015)


    I remember the pain of working with a system where a developer had chosen the TIME data type to store the number of hours worked in a day....

  • RE: The Number that shouldn't be a number

    Andy Hogg (1/31/2015)


    Eirikur Eiriksson (1/31/2015)


    ...phone number as decimal with the fraction as the extension...

    You have got to be kidding me!!! :w00t:

    Just like "The Evil That Men Do", but this time...

  • RE: The Number that shouldn't be a number

    Don't know where to start, possibly EF choice of geography as varbinary(max) or XML as nvarchar(max). Other peculiarities would be Currency Exchange Rates as int, Social Security Number as datetime,...

  • RE: Logical Help

    Could you please check your data sample, somehow id doesn't look right or I'm missing something

    😎

  • RE: Logical Help

    Quick question, is this ERD an accurate interpretation?

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    ...

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