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  • RE: The Express Choice

    There are some 3rd part applications, for example employee project / time reporting or asset management, that require SQL Server as database but are relatively small scale and don't require...

  • RE: No State Based Deployments

    At least for me, schema comparison is more of a diagnostic tool used in scenarios where I'm troubleshooting an issue in production and need to know what total differences there...

  • RE: No State Based Deployments

    Bob JH Cullen (3/3/2015)


    Eric M Russell (3/3/2015)


    It sounds to me like some folks are just making in-place modifications to tables and stored procedures in the development environment and then using...

  • RE: No State Based Deployments

    It sounds to me like some folks are just making in-place modifications to tables and stored procedures in the development environment and then using a schema compare against production too...

  • RE: Where do senior SQL DBAs land finally?

    ZZartin (3/2/2015)


    Jeff Moden (3/2/2015)


    Don Halloran (3/1/2015)


    (Also I hate web development 😛 )

    Ah, yeah... we need to you move that smiley face one pixel to the right and change the color...

  • RE: No State Based Deployments

    Migrations based deployments are based on tracking each change to a database in a separate script and then executing each script, in order, on your production database. This is hard...

  • RE: The Express Choice

    RonKyle (2/27/2015)


    He was afraid of the learning curve. I'm afraid of the problems they are going to have down the road as soon as more than 1 person wants to...

  • RE: String as primary key

    A non-clustered index won't necessarily result in double I/O on reads. Given a well designed non-clustered index with all required columns included, it can entirely cover the user query without...

  • RE: String as primary key

    N_Muller (2/26/2015)


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    To note is the fact that the table(s) will have millions of rows, but the customer will request data for at at most, 100 or so identifiers.

    Regarding concerns about...

  • RE: String as primary key

    ScottPletcher (2/27/2015)


    A lower FILLFACTOR might be required. Since users always provide the up-to-50-byte key, the idea is to avoid having to create nonclustered indexes. This creates more I/O,...

  • RE: String as primary key

    ScottPletcher (2/27/2015)


    Eric M Russell (2/27/2015)


    As a general rule, the clustered key should be sequentially incremented (to avoid page splits and accumulating fragmentation) and it should be narrow, because it will...

  • RE: String as primary key

    From what you've described, I'm envisioning the table as looking like something similar to this, bothin form and function, but it would help if we had the actual table definition.

    create...

  • RE: String as primary key

    As a general rule, the clustered key should be sequentially incremented (to avoid page splits and accumulating fragmentation) and it should be narrow, because it will be used as the...

  • RE: The Express Choice

    If the 10GB online storage limitation is not enough to contain reference or historical data, then there are options to link to the data externally. Access will be slow, and...

  • RE: Slow Queries with Linked Server

    You're only seeing things from the client end of an ETL process. Perhaps there is some difference in the data retreival method used by MS Access versus SQL Server. My...

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