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  • RE: Re-design messaging table SQL Server 2008

    First, consider giving surrogate key identifiers a unique names, and a broadly used standard is to use <tablename>ID (ie: MessageID instead of just ID). I'd recommend making this...

    "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho

  • RE: concatenate COLUMN NAME WITH VALUES

    You can leverage the INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS system table, which contains one row for each table and column in the database, to build up a SQL select statement into a variable.

    To execute...

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  • RE: Painful datetime conversion

    Sean Lange (9/17/2015)


    Eric M Russell (9/17/2015)


    Someone had mentioned that the date/time conversions can be expensive. Depending on what you're needing to do with the dates and times once they're converted,...

    "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho

  • RE: Painful datetime conversion

    Someone had mentioned that the date/time conversions can be expensive. Depending on what you're needing to do with the dates and times once they're converted, it might make sense just...

    "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho

  • RE: MS-Jet Engine 4.x ODBC enabled databases to 1 Terabyte/5 billion rows (or) SQL SERVER?

    Whether a Jet based database will scale up to 1 TB depends on how exactly you are partitioning and the case usage of how the users are querying it. Jet...

    "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho

  • RE: Can't release space of temdb

    Jeff Moden (9/4/2015)


    Alvin Ramard (9/4/2015)


    Jeff Moden (9/3/2015)


    sriponraj (9/3/2015)


    Check the connection for temp db by using sp_who2 active. Kill all the connection related to temp db and try to shrink..

    So, if...

    "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho

  • RE: The Problem Solver

    Andrew_Steitz (9/4/2015)


    Ed Wagner (9/3/2015)


    Jeff Moden (9/3/2015)


    When I was the Director of MIS for a small but nationwide telephone company, someone asked me about my habit of hiring nearly over zealous...

    "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho

  • RE: Can't release space of temdb

    If this is a reporting database with stored procedures that typically run for several minutes or longer, then one thing I do to audit usage and performance is implement something...

    "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho

  • RE: Cannot log in as 'sa' after a password update

    To decode the actual reason the login failed, you'll have to look in error log (not client message) for the State code.

    http://blogs.msdn.com/b/sql_protocols/archive/2006/02/21/536201.aspx

    Note that the message is kept fairly nondescript to...

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  • RE: The Case for Upgrading

    xinternet (9/3/2015)


    SQL2005 is EOF April 2016. It's on Extended Support. So not accurate to say "... old, unsupported ..."

    https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle?c2=1044

    For a TB+ sized data warehouse there is more of...

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  • RE: The Case for Upgrading

    Andrew..Peterson (9/3/2015)


    If you have an old truck that still does the job, you don't buy a new one just because it is new. Upgrades are a cost benefit decision. Microsoft...

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  • RE: Upgraded from 2008 to 2014, queries slowed to a crawl

    bwhiteside (9/3/2015)


    Grant, I think you called it. It looks like the new cardinality estimator appears to be causing our queries to run much slower. We changed the compatibility mode to...

    "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho

  • RE: Byte Me: Bad Code

    jckfla (9/3/2015)


    Eric M Russell (9/2/2015)


    Psst! Hey Buddy! You wanna buy some source code?

    Yuck, who let a sales repsentative for Red Hat wander into the data center? 😀

    Oh dear...I feel...

    "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho

  • RE: The Case for Upgrading

    Alvin Ramard (9/3/2015)


    Eric M Russell (9/3/2015)


    Years ago I was involved in a SQL Server 2000 -> 2005 migration. There was a 3rd party hardware interface application that would not connect...

    "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho

  • RE: No More Foreign Keys?

    ccd3000 (9/3/2015)


    I suppose you could argue the cost is in complexity and rigidity. Depending on the scenario that can be a good thing (you need structured, efficient data). I think...

    "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho

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