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  • RE: Database project ranking/prioritization

    Chad Crawford (5/2/2012)


    Gus - I've done Scrums before but I'm not seeing how they would help with prioritization, perhaps we were using scrum incorrectly. We would Blitz (hope...

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  • RE: insert 100 rows without using loop or union etc.,

    drew.allen (5/2/2012)


    It clearly says,

    Joins that use the deprecated syntax fall into two categories:

    Inner Join

    ...

    Outer Join

    or were you referring to not finding CROSS JOIN?

    It doesn't specifically state anything about CROSS JOINS....

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  • RE: Find infinite cycle in a tree

    I've resolved hierarchies of this nature, with this kind of error handling, in the past, simply by using a While loop and a temp table.

    Insert your seed value (usually either...

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  • RE: Work to Live

    CrankyRat (5/2/2012)


    " it is not beyond the pale to believe that an individual's "personal" retirement funds will be confiscated by the government at some point in the future."

    Jeez, I'm listening...

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  • RE: Programmers v Salespeople

    Revenant (5/2/2012)


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    RobertYoung (5/2/2012)


    L' Eomot Inversé (5/2/2012)


    The idea someone had that salesmen should be paid more because they have to look good doesn't hold water

    I guess you not noticed the...

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  • RE: Improve Performance of this Purge Process

    If you reverse the sequence of shrinking it and then rebuilding the indexes, it won't speed it up, but it will at least leave you with intact indexes. Right...

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  • RE: Selecting dates from a fixed period

    You're welcome.

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  • RE: Getting Output value from sp_executesql for XML

    You're welcome.

    Sometimes it's the most obvious things that are the best hidden.

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  • RE: Issue with TableDiff...

    What did you have to change?

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  • RE: very very strange problem - profiler trace

    sqldba_newbie (5/2/2012)


    seth delconte (5/2/2012)


    I guess it may depend on what sort of process(es) are kicked off in the batch...if they are able to be executed asynchronously, as with a stored...

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  • RE: Issue with TableDiff...

    You don't get to review the command prompt (DOS) output from a batch file run that way. You have to run the command manually in the command prompt to...

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  • RE: Email Notification for Alrts

    You'd do that by setting up an SQL Agent job that runs every minute and uses sp_send_dbmail to send you the appropriate data.

    Why would you want an e-mail every minute?...

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  • RE: querying from Excel

    Do you need to query it repeatedly or just once? If repeatedly, will it be the same file each time, or will it be a different file different times.

    If...

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  • RE: Getting Output value from sp_executesql for XML

    Define another output, and make the Select populate it inside the dynamic SQL.

    SET @OldValueSelect = 'select @myxmloutput = (SELECT * FROM COMPARETABLE WHERE ' + @DeltaVarColumn + ' FOR XML...

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  • RE: Improve Performance of this Purge Process

    capn.hector (5/2/2012)


    You stated the DB was 4 TB before the purge what about after. as GSquared has eluded to if you have a massive amount of data to delete...

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