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  • RE: Do You Want to Be Right?

    GSquared (6/16/2008)


    Say an airplane's navigation system. That must not give an incorrect result.

    It depends on "incorrect". If, for example, precision exceedes accuracy, that's wasted effort.

    Naturally. I probably should have...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: How to detect dead lock from SQL Server side

    No. Use sysprocesses on SQL 2000.

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Creating Role error

    travis.whitley (6/16/2008)


    was supposed to be funny. i guess cultural references dont work on forums;)

    I think we all missed the joke.

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Creating Role error

    IDENTIFIED BY is not part of SQL Server's create role statement. The form of create role is

    CREATE ROLE role_name [ AUTHORIZATION owner_name ]

    so, as an example,

    CREATE ROLE buyers AUTHORIZATION...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Expired account

    Is it a domain account? If so, most likely it's a scheduled job that's using a domain account to connect to your server, and that account has expired within Active...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Moving Existing Table Indexes to new files from Primary file, improve performance

    noeld (6/16/2008)


    tmbasha (6/15/2008)


    S.No.TableData Size(GB)Index Size(GB)Total No of Indexes

    3.X33753

    ... 53 indexes in one table? ... 🙁

    Ouch. 3 GB data and 7GB indexes. I hope it's a read-only table

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: How to detect dead lock from SQL Server side

    samuel_yanzu (6/16/2008)


    I concur! I am having major problems with one of your applications at the moment and this will be a good way determining whether deadlocks are correlating to any...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: is there a way to decrypt the StoredProcedure after Encryption in SQL server 2005

    You can decrypt them. Both SQL 2000 and SQL 2005, though the methods are different.

    A google search should dig up more information for you.

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Do You Want to Be Right?

    Steve Jones - Editor (6/16/2008)


    Great points and this is an interesting debate. But it's not black and white.

    Functionality has to be 100%. Or what the client needs the software to...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Presentation tips

    Tomorrow. You're leaving things a bit to the last minute, aren't you?

    Write up a high-level summary on what you need to say. Include major points and some rough notes on...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: Dynamically choosing inner or outer join

    jcb (6/16/2008)


    I guess the better way do do it is create TWO SPs and let the app chose one or another...but the developer don't want to change some VB6 dlls...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Inline Function

    Ah. Now I see what you're getting at.

    I'd probably call that a macro-type replacement than an inline function, but that's just nomenclature. Probably more of a parser enhancement than an...

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

    I'm sorry I misunderstood you. If you're willing to explain more what you mean (or link to DB2 documetation) I'll try and help.

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

    You mean like this?

    create function dbo.cube(@x float)

    returns FLOAT AS

    BEGIN

    return( @x * @x * @x )

    END

    GO

    SELECT dbo.cube(4)

    😉

    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: TechEd - Day 2

    I can't imagne a TechEd with 10000+ people. The local one is max 1200. PASS 2 years ago seemed huge to me, with a bit under 3000 people

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