I'm impressed if you can write the TSQL so that it fully performs and returns all the correct data out of the gate. It usually takes me a pass or...

Speaking only for myself, I won't be applying for that position.

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You can run the query and capture the actual execution plan. There's a button on the default tool bar, look for the tool tip that says "Include Actual Execution Plan"...

Right now I'm trying to uninstall 2008 from a virtual machine.

For a good overview, read the book "Database Administration" by Craig Mullins. Best summary of the job I've ever seen.

Do...

Well, back in the day... 6.5, 7.0, that was true, to a degree. But it hasn't been true at all for years & years now. Here's an introduction to performance...

Yeah, sorry about that.

I sent an email to the group this morning. Did you get it?

Profiler and Perfmon are your bestest friends. There are also a number of dynamic management views available in 2005 that list missing indexes, etc.

A seek is when a particular value (or values) is pulled out of an index. Think of it like looking up a particular index card (OK, people may not know...

That's called RBAR (reebar) processing and means Row-By-Agonizing-Row. It's definately not the way to go in most cases.

Instead, you need to focus on the results that you want as a...

ODAA caught by the coworkers, still not noticed by the boss or any one else in management.

Oh great, I'm not schizophrenic enough. Now I have to figure out the order in which to read posts.

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It's behaving pretty strangely over all. I'm seeing multiple alerts for discussions that don't appear to have any new posts at all.

First, NOT IN usually doesn't perform as well as an OUTER JOIN, so I'd change that right away. Second, you can check to see that values are a number by...

Only because he wanted to return the values and lock them down from other users. So I did the SELECT with the update lock first, then udpate the table to...

Also, on the SELECT...INTO vs. CREATE TABLE & SELECT question. That one depends too. It depends on whether or not you are going to create indexes or in any other...