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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Brandie Tarvin (9/15/2010)


    SELECT [No biltong] = 'Absolute, total disaster'

    I tried your code. It does not compute.

    Msg 257, Level 16, State 3, Line 2

    Implicit conversion from data type varchar to varbinary...

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  • RE: Indexing and Primary Keys

    Stefan Krzywicki (9/15/2010)


    Do you have a link for the recommendations for a cluster that you mentioned? I'd love to read more on it.

    Is it a valid reference if I wrote...

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  • RE: ORDER BY not working

    Magy (9/15/2010)


    Oh I see...thanks for BOL link.

    I tried using 101 instead of 103, and I still get a random order by.

    101 orders Month/day/year, I don't think that's what you want...

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  • RE: ORDER BY not working

    If you look in BoL, you'll see that format code 103 formats the date dd/mm/yyyy, so it'll be sorted in that order, by day first, then month, then year. I...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Latches makes me crazy

    PageIOLatch is a wait on physical IO, not PageLatch.

    None of those waits look particularly high. Also, that DMV shows info since SQL started. If SQL's been running a long time,...

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

    Chris Morris-439714 (9/15/2010)


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    Chad Crawford (9/14/2010)


    If only you and DEAD people can read Hex, how many people can read Hex?

    Don't know. But I do know what...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Indexing and Primary Keys

    WayneS (9/15/2010)


    One other point to make: the keys that make up the clustered index will be used in all other indexes. You might want to consider having an identity column...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: How to move tables, indexes & Logs from one disk to another disk drive

    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/Topic986215-357-1.aspx

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  • RE: MCTS content

    fawwad (9/15/2010)


    one more thing regarding exams

    how many questions i have to answer correctly atleast.

    No way to know. The distribution of marks is not available. There's no way to...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: case statements

    SELECT DISTINCT

    ID,

    CASE

    WHEN EXISTS (SELECT 1 FROM @tmp sub WHERE sub.id = t.ID AND Status = 5)

    AND EXISTS (SELECT 1 FROM @tmp sub WHERE sub.id = t.ID AND Status...

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  • RE: Database Engine Tuning Advisor

    As I said

    GilaMonster (9/15/2010)


    Not without testing and making sure the recommendations really help. Test them out one by one, implement the ones that do help.

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Time out expired when i execute stored procedure.

    I'm not reading through 10 plans to guess which is the problem. Do some investigation on your side, run the queries in Management Studio, and work out which of them...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: lastwaittype as PAGEIOLATCH_SH

    ravisamigo (9/15/2010)


    Ok, So, Stored procedure is not causing this issue.

    No, I didn't say that. The error you posted is not related to the latch waits, but badly written, sub-optimal queries...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Indexing and Primary Keys

    Stefan Krzywicki (9/14/2010)


    then I don't need an index on B, C on the second table for the stated query, but I should have one there anyway for checks on the...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: To get a DBA Job

    http://www.brentozar.com/sql/how-to-get-a-junior-dba-job/

    Gail Shaw
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