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  • RE: Co-worker Dispute

    JKSQL (1/22/2009)


    That will not be a for a while. nice thing about an SP is if it gives me grief I can change it to a @Table and be...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: SQL Server Architecture? What's going on behind the scenes?

    ashepard (1/22/2009)


    The "in-memory result set" - is that a table ?

    Depends on your definition of table.

    Do you refer to the output of a query as a table? If...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: On Using JOINS in FROM clause

    gyessql (1/22/2009)


    Is there any difference between joining in these 2 ways?

    select ...

    from table t1

    inner join t2

    ...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: On Using JOINS in FROM clause

    gyessql (1/22/2009)


    Does this mean, instead of ON and AND, for readability ON and ON can be used?

    No. They're not synonymous.

    select ....

    from ....

    ...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: On Using JOINS in FROM clause

    Bob Hovious (1/22/2009)


    Grant, would you mind showing an example of how you would use joins in a where clause? I'm not sure what you mean.

    Well, it's not the...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Are deadlocks more frequent in 2005 due to page level locks?

    DBADave (1/22/2009)


    Another statement they made in the doc is that we should identify the code causing the deadlocks and add indexes if necessary to resolve the problem.

    Other problem...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: DBCC CHECKDB doing nothing

    Please post new questions in a new thread (in an appropriate forum) as people may miss it at the end of an existing thread, and SSIS people may well not...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: Correct use of @variables and uniqueidentifiers

    So cast the uniqueidentifier to a varchar before concatenating.

    Why do you have denormalised tables? What's the reason for putting lists into a single column instead of into a child table...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: SQL Server Architecture? What's going on behind the scenes?

    ashepard (1/22/2009)


    Hi. Yes there is a temporary internal table for the resultant set rows that the cursor runs against I believe

    That's cursors. Not general queries

    For general queries,...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: Error: Unspecified error occurred on SQL Server

    Nothing in the SQL error log at all?

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

    Lowell (1/21/2009)


    really, i think there are only like 6 questions that keep getting repeated over 90 percent of the posts, and the other 10% are the ones that we enjoy.

    You...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: Are deadlocks more frequent in 2005 due to page level locks?

    DBADave (1/22/2009)


    Deadlocks can frequently occur on SQL Server 2005 as SQL Server 2005 place locks on the page level rather than row level

    Do you agree with this statement?

    No.

    All versions...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: How to prevent sysadmin from tracing using profiler...

    In addition, an administrator could put a packet sniffer in place and read all of the network packets coming into the server. Unless you've got those encrypted, that'll reveal...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: DBCC Shrinkfile to a size not working - why ?

    Great. Now give some though to good log management so that this won't happen in the future.

    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 prevent sysadmin from tracing using profiler...

    onlyvikas2004 (1/22/2009)


    that means no way to restrict sysadmin at all? :crying:

    No. That's the definition of sysadmin.

    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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