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  • RE: Merge from Heap to Clustered Index Table.... Improvements?

    nslupi - Wednesday, February 20, 2019 12:43 PM

    Eric M Russell - Wednesday, February 20, 2019 12:39 PM

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

  • RE: You Need Offline Backups

    Steve Jones - SSC Editor - Wednesday, February 20, 2019 2:36 PM

    If that's true, then how could they lose more than a...

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

  • RE: Merge from Heap to Clustered Index Table.... Improvements?

    Rather than hash key matching, consider implementing Change Tracking on the source table, and then leverage that to perform a differential merge.
    https://youtu.be/ZNUN9qejCfc

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

  • RE: You Need Offline Backups

    Steve Jones - SSC Editor - Wednesday, February 20, 2019 8:47 AM

    Wow, crazy. They might not use offsite. Lots of companies have...

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

  • RE: How Perfect Should Our Software Be?

    Ask 10 users what perfection looks like, and you'll get 10 different answers. Ask them again the following week, and you'll have 20 different answers. So, in reality, "perfection" can...

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

  • RE: A Tiny Trauma

    n.ryan - Wednesday, February 13, 2019 10:50 AM

    Eric M Russell - Wednesday, February 13, 2019 7:35 AM

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

  • RE: Google's Expensive Confusing Rules

    The problem with Google and FaceBook is that they want to create this alternate digital universe where they are essentially an all knowing, all judging, all powerful God. A universe...

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

  • RE: A Tiny Trauma

    n.ryan - Wednesday, February 13, 2019 6:09 AM

    I suspect that this is partly down to unofficial standards in software languages. Integer types...

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

  • RE: Forgiveness

    I've believed for many years that when a work environment is toxic, one where witch hunts and blaming are commonplace, it's actually a sign of corporate weakness and a "canary...

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

  • RE: Enjoying a Down Weekend

    I almost forgot my favorite Netflix series of all time: "Halt And Catch Fire".

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

  • RE: Any video courses that teach Execution Plans?

    Kendra Little does some good video presentations on execution plan analysis.
    https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=kendra+little+execution+plans

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

  • RE: A Tiny Trauma

    thomas_franz - Wednesday, February 6, 2019 6:30 AM

    The tinyint is not your problem. Sure, after changing it to smallint, you will not...

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

  • RE: A Tiny Trauma

    I probably would have done a re-cast in the view.

    CAST(ResendLimit AS SMALLINT) - ResendCount as RetriesLeft

    But it depends on if we want to retain invalid data...

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

  • RE: The Pros and Cons of Terabyte Phones

    frederico_fonseca - Tuesday, February 5, 2019 2:16 PM

    good old days - setup a new server - huge 10MB MFM disks where we...

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

  • RE: The Pros and Cons of Terabyte Phones

    Steve Jones - SSC Editor - Tuesday, February 5, 2019 10:32 AM

    I remember those days. I also remember typing format a: too...

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

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