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  • RE: Database Refresh

    You do have to define refresh. For example, we do a regular "refresh" where in we move the production database down to our QA environment through a backup and restore....

  • RE: query execution process in sql server

    In regards to the question, it does fill books. I'd take a look at the first two chapters of Itzik Ben-Gan's book, Inside T-SQL Querying. It's a good overview of...

  • RE: Are There That Many GUIDs?

    RonKyle (10/12/2010)


    I think there's a bit too much fear around GUIDs.

    Fear isn't the issue. In situations for which there is a simpler solution, they are a royal pain.

    '

    Oh absolutely....

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Brandie Tarvin (10/12/2010)


    Paul White NZ (10/11/2010)


    Jack Corbett (10/11/2010)


    $3k is about right at this point. You can do it for less by finding a cheaper hotel and roommate.

    A cheaper room-mate?...

  • RE: Upgrading from 2000 to 2008 performance issue

    reggie burns-317942 (10/11/2010)


    Thanks for all the input.

    After running update statics on 5 of the must active tables the queries are running much better, as if it was still in...

  • RE: Are There That Many GUIDs?

    I think there's a bit too much fear around GUIDs. In my own experiences, as long as they're not the clustered key, even the sequential ones, you generally won't have...

  • RE: TRY - CATCH with multiple errors

    Also CATCH won't catch syntactical (is that a word) errors, so you may see two errors in fact, but you'll only catch one

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Craig Farrell (10/8/2010)


    Alvin Ramard (10/8/2010)


    Brandie Tarvin (10/8/2010)


    Ray K (10/8/2010)


    Gianluca Sartori (10/8/2010)


    At last, Mr. Celko gives a polite and useful answer to a poor-worded question.

    It's nice to see everyone can learn.

    I...

  • RE: T-SQL Best Practices

    Best thing you can do is pick up a copy of Itzik Ben-Gan's Inside SQL Server TSQL Querying. Make all the developers read that. That'll do more positive than any...

  • RE: 2005 or 2008

    At this point in time, coming up on 2011, SQL Server 2005 is six years old and 2008R2 is 9 months old. There'll be a new version (either SQL Server...

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Chris Morris-439714 (10/8/2010)


    Brandie Tarvin (10/8/2010)


    Chris Morris-439714 (10/8/2010)


    Brandie Tarvin (10/8/2010)


    Grant Fritchey (10/8/2010)


    what is it we do for work again?

    Work is a four letter word. My mother taught me to behavior better...

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Chris Morris-439714 (10/8/2010)


    Grant Fritchey (10/8/2010)


    Jeff Moden (10/8/2010)


    The Dixie Flatline (10/7/2010)


    I just had an idea for an epic summer movie. It involves an intrepid group of DBA's...

  • RE: Upgrading from 2000 to 2008 performance issue

    steveb. (10/8/2010)


    Pradyothana Shastry (10/8/2010)


    Check the indexes and as well as fragmentation level too

    would an upgrade change the fragmentation level?

    Assuming either a restore or attach style upgrade.... nope.

    There are some...

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Jeff Moden (10/8/2010)


    The Dixie Flatline (10/7/2010)


    I just had an idea for an epic summer movie. It involves an intrepid group of DBA's and SQL Developers who...

  • RE: Upgrade to 2008

    I'm a huge fan of side-by-side upgrades. So far, knock wood, I haven't had a single 2008 upgrade go wrong, but if one did, having the 2000 server sitting there...

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