Yes, you look at the foreign key relationships.

Ed Wagner (5/15/2014)

You know, I think that was a...

Oh, sounds like what we used to call the Logical Modeling Team. And **** NO they weren't in charge of us! When I started at the company, the DBAs did...

In general, if you have the name Architect in your role, I would assume you're, at least potentially, a step up over the DBA. I filled that role (didn't have...

You've got a bunch of stuff that's going to lead to scans. Adding columns like this:

(prev_stat.BIZ_YEAR + prev_stat.BIZ_MONTH)

For a comparison will prevent statistics use and lead to scans. Functions on...

Glad you found the answer. I always go back to Microsoft for licensing questions. They're going to be the ones to enforce it, so you might as well find out...

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Or upgrade to 2014.

According to MS, that column was added with 2012, so all you can do is left joins to the sys.dm_exec_requests.

Although, you might take a look at Adam...

If it's a one time thing, shrink it. One, two or three shrinks over the life of a database is no big deal. It's the people scheduling monthly, weekly, daily...

The good news is, you have full optimization, so the optimizer didn't time out leaving you with a junk plan. The bad news is, yikes.

I suspect you may have some...

Either google-fu is failing me or I'm delusional about the recording of the discussion (both possible). Sorry.

No, i'm sorry Stefan, I don't have a specific resource on that one. It's something that came out of multiple talks with Oracle people to get an understanding of what...

To a degree, what people think of as cursors in Oracle (and maybe in other DBMS, I'm not sure) are two things, one of which we have in SQL Server....

Assuming TableA is the parent to TableB and that's the parent to TableC, then your delete order should be:

TableC

TAbleB

TableA

If you try anything else, you'll get referential constraint errors, as it...

Data can be cached on the servers outside SQL Server, then the queries against SQL Server won't ever show that data. But that's the only thing I can think of...