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

    bdcoder (1/31/2015)


    Ha! - store *every* column as VARBINARY(max) and never worry about data types again!

    You may laugh, but actually SQL Server's symmetric key encryption requires that any encrypted columns...

  • RE: Kill Processes

    The script can be handy as a starting point, if you want to kill multiple connections for a specific application or user. You must be careful to filter on Login...

  • RE: Slow Queries with Linked Server

    Jeff Moden (2/9/2015)


    Eric M Russell (2/9/2015)


    axc_67 (2/9/2015)


    No I am not joining any tables in the remote server.

    I am just pulling a simple data extraction from remote server with where conditions....which...

  • RE: Slow Queries with Linked Server

    axc_67 (2/9/2015)


    No I am not joining any tables in the remote server.

    I am just pulling a simple data extraction from remote server with where conditions....which is why I don't understand...

  • RE: Slow Queries with Linked Server

    axc_67 (2/9/2015)


    Eric,

    Your solution seem to work faster:

    Exec ('Select ...) at linked Server

    It took about 14mins...which is still longer than access but atleast it takes half the time of OpenQuery.

    Thank...

  • RE: Hadoop and SQL Server

    Gary Varga (2/9/2015)


    I really enjoyed everyone's view on Hadoop. From my development perspective this has yet to come up on any project that I have worked on or anything that...

  • RE: Slow Queries with Linked Server

    Experimenting with a different provider or linked server property configuration may offer marginal performace gains. But when it comes to performance of remote queries, what's most important is that the...

  • RE: Burnout

    It's easy to walk away from a job when you're young, your coworkers are difficult, and the pay is low. In that situation there is no internal conflict and debate,...

  • RE: Data Lakes

    Gary Varga (2/6/2015)


    Eric M Russell (1/12/2015)


    ...I read an interesting book the other day (well actually it was back in the early 1990s) by guy named Kimball. His ideas sounded similar...

  • RE: Where do senior SQL DBAs land finally?

    In some organizations, because of the way the pay grades and scales are structured, getting promoted to management is the only way for a senior level IT employee to get...

  • RE: Restricting what a user can view in SSMS

    First, I'm assuming that these user login accounts are properly assigned as members of default [public] server role and NOT [sysadmin]. There is nothing you can do to hide things...

  • RE: Where do senior SQL DBAs land finally?

    I also got my start back in late 80s and early 90s working with FoxPro and dBase on DOS, and later Clipper on OS/2. I thought I could build an...

  • RE: CASE vs ISNULL? Which is faster?

    Try all three methods (CASE, ISNULL, and COALESCE) and see which is faster in your specific scenario. If you're encountering performance issues, then it's probably the sargability of the query...

  • RE: What is the best practice about maintain and using Big Log Database

    He may also want to consider placing a unique key constraint on session + product + time or date with the ingore_dup_key option set to insure that redundant click events...

  • RE: What is the best practice about maintain and using Big Log Database

    Jeff Moden (2/3/2015)


    To cover some of what has been said, 35 inserts per second should be trivial for a well written audit system. It's usually the tables or a...

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