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  • RE: & 1 > 0 -- syntax help

    Firstly, never be too embarrassed to ask your colleagues. Everyone started from no where and you'll probably find that a couple of them also don't know what the predicate does...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: strange messages in sql error log

    Resolve what? It's an informational message, not an error.

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

    Tom Brown (5/14/2015)


    even Sci-Fi authors/books - on amazon click through, (I'm sure I remember picking up book recommendations from your site in the past)

    That's kinda been there for...

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

    Brandie Tarvin (5/14/2015)


    An alternative is a "tipping jar" that some sites use (such as paypal link), or connecting up to Patreon (which some of the webcomics use).

    Neither of which serve...

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

    Please post query, table definition, index definitions and actual execution plan (saved as a .sqlplan file and attached)

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Advantages Over SQL SERVER Always on over Clustering

    To start, Always On is not a feature. It's a marketing term. The two features which fall under that marketing terms are Failover Clustering and Availability Groups. Which are you...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Question for the people here...

    Over the years I've been very careful to keep my blog completely non-commercial, no adverts, no plugs for my company, nothing. Partially because when I started...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: splitting row into multiple rows - Urgent

    aaron.reese (5/14/2015)


    If the data contains MR, Mr or Mr. and it contains MRS, Mrs or Mrs. then it is two people

    Careful, that makes large assumptions. What about

    Prof and Mrs?

    Mr and...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: splitting row into multiple rows - Urgent

    It is a nightmare and it's going to be near-impossible to do correctly in all cases.

    What you can do is list all the valid titles that you have in the...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: unusual syntax - is this deprecated

    There aren't multiple ON clauses in a join there, it's not allowed. What's there is a rather badly formatted mess. It is NOT equivalent to a single join with ANDs,...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: Alternative to DBCC CHECKDB

    Thanks Paul.

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Alternative to DBCC CHECKDB

    Grant Fritchey (5/13/2015)


    GilaMonster (5/13/2015)


    Grant Fritchey (5/13/2015)


    Because you can have physical corruption that doesn't get backed up or restored.

    How?

    I keep hearing this advice, but the problem is it doesn't bear out....

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Alternative to DBCC CHECKDB

    Grant Fritchey (5/13/2015)


    Because you can have physical corruption that doesn't get backed up or restored.

    How?

    I keep hearing this advice, but the problem is it doesn't bear out. Backups are 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: Alternative to DBCC CHECKDB

    Grant Fritchey (5/13/2015)


    If you offload it to another server, you'll still want to run a PHYSICAL_ONLY check on the first server.

    Why?

    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: Alternative to DBCC CHECKDB

    You can offload the work to a second server, restore a backup of the production DB and check that. You can break CheckDB down and run its pieces, that's CheckAlloc,...

    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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