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  • RE: $2M worth DW infrastructured set to be releases

    Koen (da-zero) (1/29/2011)


    Yet this is posted in the SQL 11 forum 😀

    SQL 11 yes. Not SQL 2011.

    It's called SQL 11 (and has been called that since long before the code...

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  • RE: How many users can be configured(MAX) for SQL Server 2008 R2

    Google doesn't use SQL Server. They have a custom distributed database system.

    The one big internet site that uses SQL Server is MySpace. They have a couple hundred SQL Server instances,...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Difference between #temp temporary tables and @temp table variables

    yes, yes and yes. I wasn't listing all the differences (that would be an essay), just some.

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  • RE: Index

    No need for additional indexes here, the where clause is on the clustered index key. You would consider creating indexes when your queries filter or join on other columns

    This may...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    ALZDBA (1/29/2011)


    What would be the consequence for applications connected to a could database ??

    No business ??

    Yes, but Cloud's not used all that much here. Bandwidth (especially international) is expensive and...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Difference between #temp temporary tables and @temp table variables

    Sachin Nandanwar (1/29/2011)


    Do you think table variables might also face "Allocation Page Contention" the way temp tables do ?

    Yes. They're tables in TempDB, they're allocated pages just like any other...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Difference between #temp temporary tables and @temp table variables

    jerry-621596 (1/28/2011)


    One person in the office claims 'insider' knowledge and is indicating that these are both exactly the same and that both always get physically written to tempdb. His...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Difference between #temp temporary tables and @temp table variables

    Unfortunately that article is completely wrong on many points.

    Both temp tables and table variables are created in tempDB and assigned...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: How many users can be configured(MAX) for SQL Server 2008 R2

    Steve Jones - SSC Editor (1/28/2011)


    Connections to a website do not necessarily mean connections to a database.

    Especially if there's connection pooling.

    Seriously, the largest number of concurrent connections I've seen...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    mtillman-921105 (1/28/2011)


    Well, that's scary. (And I'm kind of surprised at myself when I say that, but the internet is a big deal now.)

    Not so much here. It's still a...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    mtillman-921105 (1/28/2011)


    So they reportedly turned off the internet in Egypt.

    'Makes me wonder how easy it would be to do that here in the US or in England?

    Would...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Tom.Thomson (1/28/2011)


    I've added another response. Maybe I'm going crazy, but to me you both seem to have missed the fact that he's trying to pass a large number of...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Upgrade from SQL 80 to 100

    If you mean SQL 2000 to SQL 2008, it's a backup/restore. You do need to test your app thoroughly, as lots changed.

    All the system tables are changed during the...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Problem with using ISNULL in where clause

    You really only have 3 options

    Dynamic SQL (not in a function though)

    The recompile hint on 2008

    Write your code in such a way that you're not using the same piece of...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Can anyone help this gentleman locate a split function please http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1054690-1292-1.aspx

    Gail Shaw
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