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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Bob Hovious 24601 (10/29/2009)


    .... not to mention practicing martial arts and conquering the galaxy.

    Galaxy unfortunately remains unconquered. Haven't touched that game since I mentioned it here. As for martial arts,...

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    CirquedeSQLeil (10/29/2009)


    How do you find the time? School, articles, SSC, writing books, work...

    School?

    It's 11pm and I'm just starting on a report that'll likely take 2-3 hours. Answer your question?;-)

    Not...

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Woot.

    Articles finished, slides finished, demos finished. Packing half done (laptop, books, cables and important documents still to do). Just 2 reports to finish and I think one of those is...

  • RE: Puzzling SQL server performance

    rudy komacsar - a.k.a. Doctor "X" (10/29/2009)


    By upgrading to SP4 you'll be 'supportable by MS until sometime in 2013 !

    'supportable' meaning if you have a premier support agreement with MS...

  • RE: Metadata updating

    Column names and data types you chance with an ALTER TABLE statement. When you say comments, do you mean extended properties?

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    CirquedeSQLeil (10/29/2009)


    Looking at the Manning Site, it shows that only some of the chapters are available currently. Do you know anything concerning that (is it just an update issue...

  • RE: Metadata updating

    The column names, column data types, that kind of thing?

  • RE: Metadata updating

    What are you trying to do?

  • RE: Row Order is not getting preserved

    By definition, tables have no order. If you don't specify an ORDER BY, the order that the rows will be returned in is not defined and can change.

    Change your SSIS...

  • RE: Metadata updating

    If you're talking about directly updating the actual system tables then no, absolutely not.

    The stored procs and related commands that do that are there for a reason. On SQL 2000...

  • RE: How To Convert the SP to View

    Please don't shout at us (type all caps)

    sp_configure 'Ad Hoc Distributed Queries'

    There is a good reason this is disabled by default. Check with the DBA and whoever's responsible for security...

  • RE: Need composite unique key

    Sorry, I don't understand. I'm not saying drop the date column.

    Define a computed (calculated) column, based on the effective date column then create a unique index on the computed column.

  • RE: Restore statistics.

    A restore recreates the database in exactly the same state it was at time of backup.

    As for the index usage stats report, that sources off sys.dm_db_index_usage_stats. That DMV is memory...

  • RE: Need composite unique key

    Define a computed column as the year and the month, persist that column and stick a unique index on it.

  • RE: QAAA

    Reported. Please do not download attachment

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