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  • RE: Incremental Load

    Phil Parkin (3/23/2015)


    Eric M Russell (3/23/2015)


    abhas (3/23/2015)


    DATE_MODIFIED column is there.

    If DATE_MODIFIED is populated when the row is initially inserted, and it's updated consistently by the application, and it's indexed,...

  • RE: Incremental Load

    Koen Verbeeck (3/23/2015)


    Eric M Russell (3/23/2015)


    abhas (3/23/2015)


    DATE_MODIFIED column is there.

    If DATE_MODIFIED is populated when the row is initially inserted, and it's updated consistently by the application, and it's indexed,...

  • RE: First Episodes

    below86 (3/23/2015)


    Eric M Russell (3/23/2015)


    No has even attempted a reboot of B. J. and the Bear.

    I loved that show.

    I ran into this same issue with a couple movies....

  • RE: Incremental Load

    abhas (3/23/2015)


    DATE_MODIFIED column is there.

    If DATE_MODIFIED is populated when the row is initially inserted, and it's updated consistently by the application, and it's indexed, then that's ideal. You may...

  • RE: First Episodes

    No has even attempted a reboot of B. J. and the Bear.

  • RE: Common Mistakes

    Charles Kincaid (3/20/2015)


    Knut Boehnert (3/20/2015)


    #1 No documentation

    ...

    #2 Incomplete documentation

    ...

    #3 Inadequate documentation

    ...

    I'm working on a tool to help with this right now. First release is targeted for April.

    Don't forget the...

  • RE: Common Mistakes

    Chris Harshman (3/20/2015)


    Eric M Russell (3/20/2015)


    One thing that SQL Server could use is function based indexes, so we can index on something like CAST(SALESDATE AS DATE) or even PRODUCTDESC LIKE...

  • RE: Common Mistakes

    xsevensinzx (3/20/2015)


    Eric M Russell (3/20/2015)


    #5 Inappropriate use of datetime columns. For example SELECT ... WHERE SALESDATE BETWEEN '2015/03/01' AND '2015/03/31'.

    This one is the one I found myself doing...

  • RE: Common Mistakes

    Steve Jones - SSC Editor (3/20/2015)


    CGMChris (3/20/2015)


    What exactly is the "chef problem"? A quick Google search didn't turn up anything seemingly relevant. Or perhaps Steve meant "chief"?

    The chef problem...

  • RE: Common Mistakes

    Novices have no business designing databases, so I won't reiterate all the bad patterns related to that. Instead I'll mention a few observations regarding common mistakes that end users make...

  • RE: Microsoft and R

    Hopefully R# will be to data analytics what C# is to application development, and it won't simply be a curious wallflower like J# and F#.

  • RE: Microsoft and R

    R is good, but R# will be even better.

  • RE: Disk drive report connectivity problems.

    You can use the following stored procedure and DMV queries to get information about server disk space. Because it runs within context of SQL Server, you only need connect to...

  • RE: Snapshot of data, compare previous day

    SQL_Kills (3/17/2015)


    Hi Eric,

    This is not giving me the result I require.

    Thanks

    Sorry about that; I forgot to add Y.ID = T.ID in the join, which is why it was previously cross...

  • RE: Small Experiments in Data

    Miles Neale (3/17/2015)


    Eric M Russell (3/17/2015)


    Miles Neale (3/17/2015)


    I agree, however the lawyer would say that there is no proof that the digital representation has not been altered or completely fabricated...

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