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  • RE: SQLServerCentral Editorial Policy - Article Publication

    jacroberts (8/13/2009)


    GilaMonster (8/13/2009)


    Plus who decides what's right? The last editor? What happens if someone comes along a couple months after an article's been published and edits garbage in. It may...

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  • RE: Twenty tips to write a good stored procedure

    jswong05 (8/13/2009)


    ANSI SQL92 is the other code, instead. which will work for Oracle adn other SQL-92 DBs. Microsofter always uses tactics to push other people away, reader beware. :hehe:

    Oh, so...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Twenty tips to write a good stored procedure

    Paul White (8/13/2009)


    In the most recent build of 2005 and 2008, I would tend to allocate a number of equal-sized files to tempdb (maximum four), and leave the trace flag...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Find Record position in Table

    Exactly the scenario that the OP asked about. Finding the 3rd row ordered by some criteria.

    Anther use is assigning unique values to rows in a resultset, perhaps for paging.

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Find Record position in Table

    vishal sharda (8/13/2009)


    but do you mean to say that row_number returns only the row number.

    It doesn't return the row number because SQL doesn't have any concept of a row's...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Find Record position in Table

    http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms186734(SQL.90).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

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Can't help much, but root cause is that some other app's listening on the SQL port. Only one app can listen on a port at a time (AFAIK). First st4ep...

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

    sivark1 (8/12/2009)


    pls tell how to c the o/p of the profiler

    What?

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Got Error while running DBCC CHECKDB / Selecting a table

    Do you have a clean backup? (backup from before this problem started) This is not a repairable error.

    Take a look at this article. http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/65804/. There's a section towards the end...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: How do you associate .bak broken into parts to an incremental backup?!

    I would suggest change the reindex to switch to bulk-logged instead of simple then back to full afterwards. The log will still grow, be prepared for that, but the log...

    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: SQLServerCentral Editorial Policy - Article Publication

    Plus who decides what's right? The last editor? What happens if someone comes along a couple months after an article's been published and edits garbage in. It may go unnoticed...

    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: What knowledge SQL Server DB Guy Needs for job with Banking/Insurance Experience

    dal hit (8/13/2009)


    What knowledge / key points the interviewer is looking in the candidate in relation to above skills ?

    In my experience, statements like that mean they want someone who...

    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: Got Error while running DBCC CHECKDB / Selecting a table

    Please run the following and post the full output.

    DBCC CHECKDB (< Database Name > ) WITH NO_INFOMSGS, ALL_ERRORMSGS

    Do you have a clean backup of this database?

    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: creating indexes in existing tables

    Did you read those articles?

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: Twenty tips to write a good stored procedure

    Runs the batch 8 times

    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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