Sorry Sandy, not a clue. I've only seen MySQL once or twice. I'm just not terribly familiar with it.

After you get the truncate working, you'll want to look at the query plans for the views to ensure that good indexes are in place.

That is odd. Did you try taking off only part of it? Remove the parenthesis? Remove the ON [Primary]? Remove one of the WITH clauses?

I'm just not sure. I've run...

We've used LiteSpeed for quite a while. Nothing spectacular to report. The tools is pretty solid. Quest has been adequate as a vendor. I've also tested RedGate's tool and found...

You've got a second problem as well, you need to make sure that you have the security settings to allow you access to that file. Once you've addressed that...

Can they...

I've stayed away from using functions, but the CROSS & OUTER apply statements work incredibly well with set based SELECT statements applied to the rows returned by the rest of...

To do that automatically you can either buy a tool like Embarcadero Rapid SQL that will do it for you, write a program using SMO to walk each table generating...

You're asking for improved methods of Row-By-Agonizing-Row (RBAR) processing. That type of processing is inherently slow because TSQL is set up & optimized for set based processing. You're almost guaranteed...

Sorry that wasn't helpful. I thought that covered most everything. However, for drill down, one place I go is the Query Procesing Team blog. This is the Storage Engine team's...

I've tested in 2008 and 2005. I also change the compatibility level of the database I was testing on and it worked on all of them, even 7.0. I'm not...

Did you mean to post this in the 2008 forum? If so, I tested your script on a 2008 database and it ran just fine. I'm not sure where the...

I found Itzik Ben Gan's course on advanced TSQL very helpful. He covered all the new TSQL functionality in great depth. He's from Solid Quality Mentors.

Have you performance tested both approaches? I think the CTE approach, especially the second one, not mine, should be much more effecient than loading data into a temp table.

Automatic verification of changes to the scripts as you save them is a pretty large advantage. Refactoring object names is great. The Static Code Analysis is getting a lot more...

If you can pass the data in as XML, you can use the XQUERY language in 2005 to pull the data out of it, exactly like a table. It looks...