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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    LutzM (4/26/2011)


    Any advice regarding time management in general?

    Yeah, learn how to, from someone who can. I'm terrible at at that. If I could manage time well I'd have finished this...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
    SQL In The Wild: Discussions on DB performance with occasional diversions into recoverability

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    M.Sc, not PhD (yet)

    I dabble in a lot of stuff, some works out well, some doesn't. It's been several years since I last wrote fiction of any form. Kinda miss...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
    SQL In The Wild: Discussions on DB performance with occasional diversions into recoverability

    We walk in the dark places no others will enter
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  • RE: Upgrade from SQL Server 2005 32 bit to SQL Server 2008 R2 64 bit

    Apurva (4/26/2011)


    When you restore database to a different server your Database users are orphaned.

    Not if when the logins are created they are created with the same SID as on the...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
    SQL In The Wild: Discussions on DB performance with occasional diversions into recoverability

    We walk in the dark places no others will enter
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  • RE: Help with (easy for you) query

    There's no need to count all the rows just to see if any rows exist. It's inefficient.

    IF EXISTS (select 1

    from dynamicsgp_utilities.dbo.V_sfvouchers

    where (sfid like 'EM-%' or sfid like 'EXP-REP%') and sfid...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
    SQL In The Wild: Discussions on DB performance with occasional diversions into recoverability

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  • RE: Help with (easy for you) query

    ColdCoffee (4/26/2011)


    I would advice you to use Aliases for the tables and then run the query.. probabaly some outer query is accessing the columns of the inner query..

    It's likely this...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
    SQL In The Wild: Discussions on DB performance with occasional diversions into recoverability

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  • RE: Help with (easy for you) query

    What are you trying to set @cnt to?

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
    SQL In The Wild: Discussions on DB performance with occasional diversions into recoverability

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    SQLRNNR (4/26/2011)


    Stefan Krzywicki (4/26/2011)


    GilaMonster (4/26/2011)


    Working on PASS abstracts tonight. Am strongly tempted to write one of them at least in verse. Just for fun...

    That is something that would strongly tempt...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
    SQL In The Wild: Discussions on DB performance with occasional diversions into recoverability

    We walk in the dark places no others will enter
    We stand on the bridge and no one may pass
  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    I don't do epic verse.

    Though... (read attached at your own risk, very amateur attempt)

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
    SQL In The Wild: Discussions on DB performance with occasional diversions into recoverability

    We walk in the dark places no others will enter
    We stand on the bridge and no one may pass
  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Working on PASS abstracts tonight. Am strongly tempted to write one of them at least in verse. Just for fun...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
    SQL In The Wild: Discussions on DB performance with occasional diversions into recoverability

    We walk in the dark places no others will enter
    We stand on the bridge and no one may pass
  • RE: Need help with merge query with multiple tables

    Please don't cross post. It just wastes peoples time and fragments replies.

    No replies to this thread please. Direct replies to: http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1098821-392-1.aspx

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
    SQL In The Wild: Discussions on DB performance with occasional diversions into recoverability

    We walk in the dark places no others will enter
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  • RE: Split-brain mirroring

    No, read the kb article again. It's not split brain. If you try to query the former principal, you'll get an error.

    To have a split brain scenario, both servers...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
    SQL In The Wild: Discussions on DB performance with occasional diversions into recoverability

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  • RE: Numeric(p,s) datatype in TSQL

    When you have a numeric, the first number (p) is the total number of digits that can be stored. The second number (s) is how many of those digits are...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
    SQL In The Wild: Discussions on DB performance with occasional diversions into recoverability

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  • RE: Less Pay, More Convenience

    Grant Fritchey (4/26/2011)


    nico van niekerk (4/26/2011)


    One can understand that employers would be reluctant to allow someone with whom they have no trust-relationship to work at home. There are a multitude...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
    SQL In The Wild: Discussions on DB performance with occasional diversions into recoverability

    We walk in the dark places no others will enter
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  • RE: Enable index - urgent

    Enterprise edition? If so, you should be able to do the rebuild online. If not, you just have to accept the impact from your mistake. It won't lock the entire...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
    SQL In The Wild: Discussions on DB performance with occasional diversions into recoverability

    We walk in the dark places no others will enter
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  • RE: Enable index - urgent

    You need to rebuild the index.

    Disabling an index drops the entire b-tree, just leaving the metadata behind. It takes a rebuild to recreate that.

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
    SQL In The Wild: Discussions on DB performance with occasional diversions into recoverability

    We walk in the dark places no others will enter
    We stand on the bridge and no one may pass

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