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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    GSquared (11/30/2010)


    If it were written:

    SELECT ..

    FROM T1

    inner join T2

    on T1.a >= T2.b

    inner join T3

    on T1.a <= T3.c;

    Would you still question it? It's the same query,...

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

    Trey Staker (11/30/2010)


    It kind of makes my head spin.

    Yup. Far too late on a Tues evening to be thinking about relational theory.

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: Free memory issue

    Page file != Virtual memory.

    32 bit SQL? Have you changed the -g startup switch?

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

    Alvin Ramard (11/30/2010)


    I'm still not sure about the number of records this might returned.

    Who knows? Unless I'm missing something, it's a cross join between T2 and T3 (there's no limitation...

    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?

    Joe's pulled out his usual example over here: http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1026791-392-1.aspx (please don't take that thread out of control. So far it's polite)

    Before I reply to his assertions, I'd like an opinion...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: Are there separate patches for R2?

    R2 is a different version of SQL to 2008. It's like SQL 2005 and SQL 2008.

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: 2005 on 2008(OS)

    It works fine with service pack 3. I have more than one SQL 2005 instance on Server 2008 R2

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: 2005 on 2008(OS)

    Apply service pack 3 for SQL and it'll be fine.

    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: Number of licenses SQL and CALs that I need

    Aside: Stop using the sa account. That's so far into the 'worst practices' territory you'll need a map to find it.

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: Detect Corrupt Statistics - Is there a way?

    ALTER DATABASE <dbname> SET PAGE_VERIFY CHECKSUM

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

    Jack Corbett (11/30/2010)


    One unusual element of the Backup Exec SQL Agent is that a full backup does not truncate the log files. If you use SQL's own backup utility, a...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: Turning off auto update of statistics

    Indianrock (11/30/2010)


    But the question remains: can you turn off auto update of stats database-wide and activate it on specific tables/indexes? Or do you have to leave it on database-wide...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: Kill and rollback issues

    Please post new questions in a new thread. Thanks

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Error in Dynamic open row set query

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

    No replies to this thread please. Direct replies to http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1027319-338-1.aspx

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Cursor not giving expected results

    Robin_D (11/30/2010)


    UPDATE #Tmp set StoredProc = @SProc

    Shouldn't there be a where clause on that update?

    Gail Shaw
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