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It's just a chapter out of a larger book. The information is likely to be good, but it could be pretty light.
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August 1, 2008 at 5:42 am
I'm honestly mixed on this one. On the one hand, it's none of HR's or the company's business what I do in my off time. On the other hand, participating...
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August 1, 2008 at 5:37 am
Hey Jack,
You know, I do forget about that threading thing. Holdover from the days of 2000. I will say, it still doesn't work quite like having multiple connections from multiple...
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August 1, 2008 at 5:25 am
It's an ancient book. But hey, relational databases are relational databases. It's not til you get to all the funky queries and ETL and all that fun stuff that 2000/2005/2008...
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July 31, 2008 at 12:51 pm
Tuning Advisor stinks.
I've used Profiler to capture production and then play it back. It's actually pretty easy. The real key is that you absolutely have to recover to a precise...
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July 31, 2008 at 12:10 pm
Fleming & von Halle's "Handbook of Relational Database Design" is one of the best introductory books that I'm aware of.
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July 31, 2008 at 12:03 pm
As several people have already posted, that's just too vague a question to give you a good answer. If you're really stuck on how to get started, here's a basic...
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July 31, 2008 at 12:01 pm
You still can't buy it though. All they're offering is the "Readiness" disk and the July CTP.
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July 31, 2008 at 11:56 am
Today? I seriously doubt it, but this is the first time I heard this rumor.
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July 31, 2008 at 6:49 am
IDENTITY columns do not duplicate, even without a constraint, when operating normally. You can force duplicates in by using IDENTITY_INSERT or by doing a RESEED, but the normal behavior is...
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July 31, 2008 at 6:18 am
When you say duplicated, do you mean in the data? I've never seen that in normal functions, it must be a bug or you're not using the IDENTITY setting and...
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July 31, 2008 at 5:37 am
The newest version of Red Gate's SQL Prompt will do that for you and lots more. Also Red Gate's SQL Refactor has a way to clean up the layout of...
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July 31, 2008 at 5:32 am
And just like your last post, take a look at the execution plans that will tell you a lot of what you need to know for making these sorts of...
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July 31, 2008 at 5:30 am
Check the execution plan. WHERE clause order can affect some execution plans, but won't affect all. On a very simply query like this, it's unlikely to make a difference.
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July 31, 2008 at 5:28 am
dale_keller (7/30/2008)
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July 30, 2008 at 12:08 pm
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