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  • RE: Long execution times when including simple SQL functions into a join

    For some info on scalar functions, including the difficulting in seeing how they perform

    http://sqlinthewild.co.za/index.php/2009/04/29/functions-io-statistics-and-the-execution-plan/

    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?

    Oh yay. 🙁

    Another email accusing me of personal attacks and damaging someone's public image by 'misleading' people about his statements.

    Sometimes I wonder why I bother.....

    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: Jet OLEDB 4.0 connection on 64 Server.

    Threads can't be deleted.

    No replies here please. Direct replies to http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic721366-148-1.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: Contents of Tempdb.mdf and Tempdb.ldf

    It's the data and log file for TempDB. That's the DB where temp tables and table variables are stored and where SQL stored intermediate results for queries (spools, hashs, etc)

    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: User password logging.

    The only way you're going to see the passwords is if you put a network sniffer in place and are using unencrypted communication. SQL will not allow you to see...

    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: Strange T-SQL Behavior

    Now that's taking white space insensitive just a little too far.

    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: Attempting to either create a temporary table or index statitics.

    Are you running this on your production server or on a dev server? (hint, you should not ever run index tuning wizard or database tuning adviser on a production system)

    Does...

    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: Attempting to either create a temporary table or index statitics.

    guptaajay1985 (5/21/2009)


    I am using ss2k ...

    Please post SQL 2000-related questions in the SQL 2000 forums in the future. If you post in the 2005 forums, you're very likely to...

    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: Filtered index with IS NULL predicate

    http://connect.microsoft.com/SQLServer/feedback/ViewFeedback.aspx?FeedbackID=454744

    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: Adding Minutes to DATETIME2

    Ian Scarlett (5/21/2009)


    Why it doesn't work with a datetime2 must be down to the underlying datatypes Microsoft are using internally.

    Datetime is internally a float and can implicitly convert to and...

    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: Set Universal permissions for a SQL Server user

    SA is sysadmin and has all permissions on the server anyway. There's no need to assign it anything.

    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: Multiuser Exception ???

    That's not built-in SQL error. The error number (50000) indicates that it's being raised in that procedure. Take a look through that proc for code like this, and see...

    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?

    Tom Brown (5/21/2009)


    You mean you don't count those headless voles, rat livers and mouse innards as wages.

    Mine never bring me anything. Only once they brought a bird in and then...

    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: How to prepare the Execution Plan of a query

    sk.panda (5/21/2009)


    Should the above command is the appropriate solution for Execution paln?

    What are you trying to do? If you just want to see the query's exec plan, run it in...

    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: Query Timeout

    Jan Van der Eecken (5/20/2009)


    Barry and Gail, you are both right of course. I'm still stuck somewhere between my C++ background, where short-circuiting of boolean expressions is part of our...

    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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