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  • RE: The dreaded RBAR

    I've found that building up a list of keys shared across multiple tables into a temp table using EXCEPT keyword is very efficient. Deleting or updating against an inner join...

  • RE: Linked server sal server 2008 r2 with mysql works with select but not with insert into

    Reply back with the actual OpenQuery statement.

  • RE: Kill Processes

    Robert.Sterbal (2/10/2015)


    Our main purpose for something like this is to do a database restore. Which method of killing processes do you prefer to do that?

    ALTER DATABASE <database> SET RESTRICTED_USER WITH...

  • 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...

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