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  • RE: WHERE Column = 'String' Doesn't work...

    Jesse McLain (4/23/2009)


    Depending on your method of import, Excel usually comes in as nvarchar rather than varchar. If that's the case, then you will need to search using the RTRIM()...

    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?

    Default autogrow on data and log

    No indexes or constraints on Products. The cluster on Main is going to fragment quite badly, depending how often the inserts/updates are.

    Product price is inconsistent...

    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: query with multiple parameters

    Please post table definitions, sample data and desired output. Read this to see the best way to post this to get quick responses.

    http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Best+Practices/61537/

    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: Restore with no full backup available

    To restore to a point in time with log backups you need a full backup and all of the log backups (unbroken chain) from the full backup up until the...

    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: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Alvin Ramard (4/23/2009)


    hmmmm...Where would one look for examples of bad SQL? (I'm ducking to avoid flying pork chops) 😀

    My presentation from last year had some made up bad...

    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: MCTS 70-431 [2005]

    dev_programmer (4/23/2009)


    Please give me some practise papers that would allow me to judge myself with various sections of sql server 2005.

    As i said, the only 'free' practice papers that you're...

    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?

    http://sqlinthewild.co.za/index.php/2009/04/11/pass-summit-submissions/

    You need the following:

    - Your biography

    - A title (eye catching or at least intriguing)

    - Short abstract

    - 3 goals of the presentation

    - Requirements - what people need to know to follow

    -...

    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: MCTS 70-431 [2005]

    dev_programmer (4/22/2009)


    where can get practice test papers for free as i cant afford the amount asked.

    The vast majority of 'free' practice test papers that you will find are 'brain dumps',...

    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: RESTORE PROBLM

    Hmm, looks like you have one of the parts of a striped backup. It commonly happens when a backup is taken through management studio and there are two (or more)...

    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?

    Bob Hovious (4/23/2009)


    Thanks everyone, I truly hope I can be in the audience for some of your presentations.

    You didn't submit an abstract?

    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: Restore with no full backup available

    If you've already restored the full backup, you can't go back as the restore would have overwritten the existing database. You can just run the following to bring it out...

    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: Include a column to a already existing Non Cluster Index...

    Change the primary key to clustered. Is there any good reason it was created as a nonclustered index in the first place?

    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: Row Size

    mithun.gite (4/23/2009)


    ok means the max row size is 8060 bytes and anything more than then resides off the page , right...

    No.

    The max row size is 8060 bytes and creating a...

    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: Trigger CLR

    Post the trigger code and the T-SQL 'shell' for it?

    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: Row Size

    create table my table (str1 varchar(3000),

    str2 varchar(3000)

    str3 varchar(3000)

    )

    it created the table and i entered 3000 chars in all columns and it working fine.

    Yup. Varchar are variable length character data. 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

    We walk in the dark places no others will enter
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