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  • RE: Time for a ROWID?

    In both SQL Server and Oracle, the ROWID is a physical marker that changes when the physical position of the row in the page or table changes. For that reason,...

    "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho

  • RE: MS Access as a front end to SQL Server?

    allonlineaccts (7/31/2011)


    Allow me to rephrase the question and exclude MS Access from it.

    I am responsible for developing and editing user interfaces for several departments. These interfaces allow the end...

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  • RE: The Impact of Outages

    From what I've seen, most outages (an extended period of time where all or a large number of users cannot access the application or some key feature of it) are...

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  • RE: Time for a ROWID?

    mar10br0 (7/29/2011)


    Eric M Russell (7/29/2011)


    mar10br0 (7/28/2011)


    For deduping duplicates in a heap-table, I would just delete all offending rows, then re-insert one record. Since a heap cannot have any foreign-keys pointing...

    "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho

  • RE: Have an Extra Beer!

    umailedit (7/29/2011)


    I have become skeptical of "scientific" findings regarding food and medicine. There seems to be scientific studies backing every cockeyed conclusion both for and against.

    I saw an infomercial...

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  • RE: Geeky Distractions

    I'd say that SQLServerCentral is a geeky distraction. 😉

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  • RE: Geeky Distractions

    cy-dba (7/29/2011)


    I've been watching various movies via Netflix (streaming and DVD), especially documentaries.

    Is anyone else wondering when Iron Fist will come out on the big screen??

    There are a lot of...

    "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho

  • RE: Geeky Distractions

    I've been reading through the Sword Of Truth series for several months. Also, from these books the TV series Legend Of Seeker was adapted.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sword_of_Truth

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  • RE: Time for a ROWID?

    mar10br0 (7/28/2011)


    For deduping duplicates in a heap-table, I would just delete all offending rows, then re-insert one record. Since a heap cannot have any foreign-keys pointing to it, this will...

    "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho

  • RE: Slow running select Queries

    Ninja's_RGR'us (7/28/2011)


    TheSQLGuru (7/28/2011)


    3) BEWARE DTA!! It does numerous bad things with indexing.

    I've actually had DTA CRUSH the server's CPU (large load) and then fill up the drive by growing...

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  • RE: If exporting data to excel exceeds 65536 rows.....

    The optional Power Pivot addin (reuquires Excel 2010) can analyze millions of rows. You don't need to import millions of rows into Excel to analyze the data using Excel. Rather...

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  • RE: Time for a ROWID?

    Nadrek (7/28/2011)


    Eric M Russell (7/27/2011)


    How would you leverage ROWID for detecting "overlapping date ranges"; doesn't that typically involve comparing two or more date columns?

    It's the trivial case of "exclude each...

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  • RE: Time for a ROWID?

    Nadrek (7/27/2011)


    Eric M Russell (7/27/2011)


    Nadrek (7/27/2011)

    Actually, I'd very much like it to be exposed; for certain cases (say, overlapping date range detection), having an efficient, guaranteed unique per row value...

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  • RE: Time for a ROWID?

    Nadrek (7/27/2011)


    Eric M Russell (7/27/2011)


    When a table is edited in SSMS, say to add a column or alter it's datatype, the operation will often times be scripted out in the...

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  • RE: Time for a ROWID?

    Steve Jones - SSC Editor (7/27/2011)


    Eric M Russell (7/27/2011)


    The row id would have to be something both static and transferrable to the replicated instance, so it couldn't be a matter...

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