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  • RE: Career Engagement

    Christopher Reed (5/31/2012)


    Steve,

    I'm just curious. What was "c"? You never listed it in the editorial.

    I was just about to post the same question.

    Based on the logical...

  • RE: sp_getapplock useful?

    I've actually never leveraged sp_getapplock nor even encountered it, and I've seen a lot of databases code. However, I have seen situations where developers have implemented their own concurrent "locking"...

  • RE: A Break from Data

    It's rare that I'll see a truly great science fiction film. What I'm talking about is a film that's a great adaptation of a great sci-fi novel. Most of the...

  • RE: A brief overview of mechanisms to "export to excel" - which do you use, which do you prefer?

    allmhuran (5/10/2012)


    ...

    COMMAND LINE BASE SOLUTIONS

    OPTION: output to text file using bcp/sqlcmd

    ISSUES: prone to special character problems, like tabs, commas, newlines etc embedded in large text coulumns such as memos,...

  • RE: A Break from Data

    A couple of weeks back, I went to see "Mirror, Mirror" with my wife and kids. I went into it with only luke warm expectations, but it actually turned out...

  • RE: Too much space for each row

    My first guess is that it would be the result of index fragmentation or page splits.

    SQL Server Fragmentation The Basics

    http://www.brentozar.com/archive/2009/02/index-fragmentation-findings-part-1-the-basics/

    Also, you may want to consider moving your LOB...

  • RE: Table data Corrupted

    How to troubleshoot a Msg 823 error in SQL Server

    http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2015755

    To start, SQL Server 2008+ contains a system table called SUSPECT_PAGES that maintains information about suspect pages and their error...

  • RE: Old, but stable

    Markus (5/16/2012)


    Not enough really. I don't think a CIO/CEO would say that is acceptable if someone wreaked havoc on that SQL Server install or stole data from it and...

  • RE: Old, but stable

    Markus (5/16/2012)


    The big problem with running it beyond 2014 is that if a virus comes out that effects SQL2000 Microsoft will no longer create a fix for it. THAT...

  • RE: Fill factor on historical table

    rafael_si (5/14/2012)


    Hello Eric,

    Since my business key do not duplicate, the identity column is not necessary, is it?

    No, it's not necessary. Having LoadDateTime + ID would just be an alternative...

  • RE: Where are the good Senior Level DBA's?

    Elliott Whitlow (5/10/2012)


    Lynn Pettis (5/10/2012)


    Anyone tuning the query by not looking at IO and Time statistics and query plan would immediately fail.

    Guess I'd fail here. First things I look...

  • RE: Fill factor on historical table

    Using LoadDate as the leading column in primary clustered key makes sense in a table containing historical rows, because it's sequential (I'm assuming it's based on system date at the...

  • RE: Collation problem? Text search with a 'v' also gets 'w'

    When tables and indexes are created, their internal data structure is effected by whatever collation setting was currently in effect. Similar to Fill Factor, I believe that after changing the...

  • RE: Mobile Password Protection

    Personally, I don't own an iPhone, Android device, or whatever. If I did, I'd keep my Hotmail or Gmail account stuff in the cloud and not have it setup to...

  • RE: Stored Procedures Performance

    This is a good script.

    One suggested addition would be a 'schemaname' column. When I'm unit testing in Development, I often times have a different version of the stored procedure...

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