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  • RE: Why every SQL Server installation should be a cluster

    Very interesting article and a great discussion generator. Many thanks.

    ...As a sole DBA at the place I work, I support over 50 SQL servers...

    Anyone else notice the irony? :hehe: I...

    ...One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that ones work is terribly important.... Bertrand Russell

  • RE: SQL Server Health and History Tool

    What can we infer about the utility of this tool given that nobody's ever heard of it?

    ...One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that ones work is terribly important.... Bertrand Russell

  • RE: SQL Best practices, policies and code-smells.

    We've similarly avoided the use of the term "best practises" because there's always more than one way to skin a cat. Instead we've developed a SQL checklist. Before code goes...

    ...One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that ones work is terribly important.... Bertrand Russell

  • RE: Disk Is Cheap! ORLY?

    I don't care how cheap storage is or becomes, I hate wasting resources if they don't need to be wasted.

    That's right. Laziness is looking at what the price used...

    ...One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that ones work is terribly important.... Bertrand Russell

  • RE: Is this a "gaps and islands" problem? Finding gaps in overlapping times.

    Hi Dwain

    Sorry for not getting back to you. I've been diverted to other projects for a while. I provided a rather simplified version of the problem as an example, but...

    ...One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that ones work is terribly important.... Bertrand Russell

  • RE: Is this a "gaps and islands" problem? Finding gaps in overlapping times.

    Chris how would you change yours to work on SQL 2005 (no cross apply and table value constructors)?

    ...One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that ones work is terribly important.... Bertrand Russell

  • RE: Is this a "gaps and islands" problem? Finding gaps in overlapping times.

    Hi Dwain

    I'm enormously grateful for the code you've put up. I'll test yours and Chris's and see what I can learn from them. I'll post back my observations after some...

    ...One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that ones work is terribly important.... Bertrand Russell

  • RE: Is this a "gaps and islands" problem? Finding gaps in overlapping times.

    Awesome to have the heavy hitters on the case! Jeff, where you say:

    You're not actually supposed to use any data from that. You're only supposed to use the presence of...

    ...One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that ones work is terribly important.... Bertrand Russell

  • RE: Is this a "gaps and islands" problem? Finding gaps in overlapping times.

    OK. So I'm trying to understand table value constructors and cross apply. If I do this (on a SQL 2008 machine):

    SELECT *

    FROM...

    ...One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that ones work is terribly important.... Bertrand Russell

  • RE: Is this a "gaps and islands" problem? Finding gaps in overlapping times.

    Thanks Chris. I'll go away and digest it. The VALUES... syntax doesn't work in SQL 2005, but it looks suspiciously like a tally table (which I already have) so I...

    ...One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that ones work is terribly important.... Bertrand Russell

  • RE: The Standard Limitation

    (Don't panic - tongue is firmly in cheek here)

    Wouldn't it be good if they created a licensing structure that forced db designers to normalise their OLTP databases properly. I'm heartily...

    ...One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that ones work is terribly important.... Bertrand Russell

  • RE: Getting Back Previous Database

    A comprehensive discussion of the various options tried in the past can be found here:

    http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic860953-61-1.aspx

    ...One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that ones work is terribly important.... Bertrand Russell

  • RE: Database Backup Restore

    Like Revenant, I too am a dev and not a DBA. I don't currently have access to a server that I can create dbs on, and faff around with backups...

    ...One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that ones work is terribly important.... Bertrand Russell

  • RE: When Is Work, Work?

    Well, a lot has changed since 2008. BlackBerry! Who remembers that! Hilarious!

    ...One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that ones work is terribly important.... Bertrand Russell

  • RE: Usage of CTE - Trick with Dates

    Hi adelinetfl.smkss

    You can increase the number to something greater than 100. Not advocating anything here 🙂

    See Query Hints in SQL Server Books online:

    ...MAXRECURSION number

    Specifies the maximum number of recursions allowed...

    ...One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that ones work is terribly important.... Bertrand Russell

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