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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Paul White (4/28/2009)


    Would that not work then? :laugh:

    It'll work, that ain't the point

    The latest suggestion in the date-time to date precision discussion, is to store the date part in a...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Statistics

    http://sqlinthewild.co.za/index.php/2008/11/04/what-are-statistics-and-why-do-we-need-them/

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Comparison of Dates in SQL

    Kurt W. Zimmerman (4/28/2009)


    My approach is quite simple. Often times I am passing in a date range into a sproc for selection criteria. What I do is the...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Comparison of Dates in SQL

    Tao Klerks (4/28/2009)


    2) What is the relationship between query plan caching and parameter sniffing, eg in a stored procedure? Isn't parameter sniffing essentially doing the opposite of query plan caching?...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Optimizer?

    Grant Fritchey (4/28/2009)


    SELECT * FROM TEST101

    WHERE CODE=105 AND ACNO=14000

    ORDER BY CODE

    --WHY IT IS GOING FOR CLUSTRED INDEX OF COLUMN "ID"

    --Now it is going for non clustered index, this is...

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

    Paul White (4/28/2009)


    On a separate subject, can I ask: Are articles checked or reviewed before publication on SSC?

    There's no technical review done, if that's what you're asking. Firstly Steve's vision...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: A strange problem with 'select' performance

    johny (4/28/2009)


    Yes. The records that end with '9' take more time every time.

    Can you post output of statistics IO and Statistics time?

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Multiple daily log backups required in a clustered and mirrored environment

    Schadenfreude-Mei (4/28/2009)


    We are thinking of putting in a log shrink after the backup, but i wanted to check that this was also going to be replicated to the mirror.

    Why,...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Upgrading database from 2000 to 2005

    Simon Smith (4/28/2009)


    For example the concept of locking seems to have bypassed them and locking whole tables whilst reporting is common.

    *twitch* Ouch

    I could do without the hassle of setting...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: TIMEOUT error (client thinks it's SQL Server)

    From Books Online:

    Use the remote query timeout option to specify how long, in seconds, a remote operation can take before Microsoft SQL Server times out. The default is 600, which...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Optimizer?

    mithun.gite (4/27/2009)


    SELECT * FROM TEST101

    --WHY IT IS GOING FOR CLUSTERED INDEX OF COLUMN "ID"?

    Because there's no filter of any form. That query reads the entire table, hence the only way...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Upgrading database from 2000 to 2005

    Bear in mind that there have been changes to what's considered valid SQL in SQL 2005. If the app uses any of that it will break on SQL 2005.

    Perhaps I...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: TIMEOUT error (client thinks it's SQL Server)

    riga1966 (4/27/2009)


    If there is SQL Server timeout error will it be captured in SQL Server Log

    or you need to configure SQL to start capturing this type of things?

    How do I...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Upgrading database from 2000 to 2005

    Simon Smith (4/28/2009)


    Are there any reasons as to why you can't upgrade a database straight from SQL2000 to SQL2005.

    You can. I've done so on a number of occasions.

    There are...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: A strange problem with 'select' performance

    Any chance you can post the plans as .sqlplan files (zipped)? The xml should be the same across all languages so, if I load it into my management studio, I'll...

    Gail Shaw
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