Pig Pile!

Seriously though, everyone got it right. Replication has the type of behavior you're looking for. It won't seriously impact your performance (configured correctly) and it's a lot more fault...

Very interesting stuff. Thanks for sharing. I'd love to know if you do find any kind of memory leak since, from a performance stand point you already proved that it...

Yeah, I've read a lot of that stuff. I was just wondering if anyone had come up with a compelling, real-world, example of using CLR and getting more or better...

Can you post the query plan as XML? It sounds like you might be missing an index which is why you're getting the work table in tempdb. Possibly in the...

I'm not entirely sure what you mean, but I think you you're looking for something along the lines the OPENROWSET command. Look it up in Books Online.

What about sys.server_principals & sys.server_role_members? You can also go to each database and look at sys.database_principals and sys.database_role_members on each database.

Hate to say this, but, it depends. There's no inherent advantage of a stored proc over a SQL statement. It's execution plan re-use that you're actually shooting for. However, Agent...

Crud. I should have read more closely. Good job. Man I feel stupid.

That is odd. Try running Profiler against the table as you do the work. Use the statement starting and statement completion events in addition to the normal ones. That way...

I don't know. I copied down all your code and walked through it. It's working fine. No issues. No errors. I was able to insert values using your script (with...

Total agreement. There's a constraint you're not seeing or there's a trigger you're not seeing or, probably, both.

Keep an eye on it. We once had a query, so badly written, that recompiles took over two minutes. We'd get time outs about once every 17 or 18 minutes...

Sure sounds like the trigger may be affecting the data. Can you, without violating business integrity, post the table definition and trigger? Also, you mentioned the incrementing id value? Is...

I have seen differences in how the query optimizer behaves in 2005. Overall, I think it's much better, but it acts choosy. Is it possibly going into recompile? Or is there...

I'm a bit confused. There are three things at work here. First off, creating a procedure

CREATE PROCEDURE x

AS

--followed by creating a table within the proc

--drop it first

IF EXISTS (SELECT *...