I did some tests. For good or for ill, I found that the XML & Table of Numbers worked better than anything else when dealing with large tables and complex...

You just have to keep the tests honest. I wasn't counting icons and going "Oooh, it's faster." In the simple tests, both processes had a table scan. The one that...

Very good points. I was just going to start looking up similar solutions in Itzik's books when I saw your post. I figured there was a way to bring a...

I just tested it on some larger procs. It really is better. Hmmm I'll have to document this one in our best practices doc.

antonio.collins (1/6/2008)

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how can this:

select * from monitor_hosts where @myList like ('%,'+cast(hostid as varchar(8)+'%')

be faster than this:

select * from monitor_hosts where hostid in (select val from dbo.fListToValues(@myList))

the first statement will always...

If you're using the function as a table, you can simply join to it. We do it all over the place.

Unfortunately, table valued functions don't have statistics, so if the...

The link to the ZiffDavis IT myths doesn't seem to be working.

I agree with Jeff here. Naming tables after the database they're contained in is not going to be helpful. Also, I wouldn't recommend using the module in the names. I'd...

Inside the SQL Server 2005 folder is a folder called Configuration Tools. Inside there is a tool called SQL Server Configuration Manager. Open that up. In there on the left...

Is "E" a drive or a share name?

It has to be permission issue from the service account that SQL Server runs under. Not the 'sa' login, but the login...

So far we only three or four schema per database. We manage our security through a role in the database. The roles get access to stored procedures. The stored procedures...

BOHICA

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To my knowledge, not using this quick way of scripting. If you do an actual export to file you get the option of having a single file or seperate files...

I'm not sure what you mean. We're not talking about tables, but about stored procedures. If you have a data type of int in the stored procedure, the character length...

This isn't documented, but does what you want:

exec sp_procedure_params_rowset 'procname'

The -1 returned by the view is the designed method. The procedure, in my mind, is worse. It shows a length...