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  • RE: Too Many Bricks, Too Much Data

    We're human beings. Our tendency is to gather until we can't.

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Steve Jones - SSC Editor (4/2/2012)


    Pints from Red Gate is a good idea, but at the rate I drink it would take me 5000 days to achieve alcohol toxicity.

    5000 days...

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  • RE: The Beginning of April

    sqlzealot-81 (4/3/2012)


    Why not satire? Points only to "Practical Joke" is not justified.

    Lost 7 points anyway.

    Would have been even better if he didn't give any points for any answers. Then the...

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  • RE: Auto Increment

    Sean Lange (4/2/2012)


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    Jeff Moden (4/1/2012)


    SPAM reported.

    I must be missing something. What spam?

    There was a spam message in here at one point. After he reported it they took down that...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Evil Kraig F (4/2/2012)


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    GilaMonster (3/30/2012)


    I read the end of that and I am not getting involved...

    Initial gut feel - improper transaction management (leaves transactions open)...

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  • RE: records disappearing after insert, occasionally of course

    Side note, potentially even better than scope_identity() is using an Output clause in the insert. That can handle multi-row inserts, can't cross-scope, and allows for options other than just...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    GilaMonster (4/2/2012)


    Evil Kraig F (3/30/2012)


    GilaMonster (3/30/2012)


    I read the end of that and I am not getting involved...

    Initial gut feel - improper transaction management (leaves transactions open) combined with connection pooling....

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  • RE: Identity column Problem

    Identity columns don't guarantee sequentiality. They can skip around. If an insert fails, or gets rolled back, the identity goes up, but the row won't be in there.

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  • RE: records disappearing after insert, occasionally of course

    Since it happens under heavy load, is it possible the DAL (or application if you aren't using an explicit DAL) is dropping connections before allowing the transaction to commit? ...

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  • RE: Auto Increment

    Jeff Moden (4/1/2012)


    SPAM reported.

    I must be missing something. What spam?

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  • RE: The Beginning of April

    Revenant (4/2/2012)


    GSquared (4/2/2012)


    As usual, I spent the day telling people who were barefoot or in sandles, et al, that their shoes were untied. Told my dogs that too, of...

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  • RE: The Beginning of April

    As usual, I spent the day telling people who were barefoot or in sandles, et al, that their shoes were untied. Told my dogs that too, of course.

    Put white...

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  • RE: SQL Knowledge Transfer for new project

    opc.three (3/30/2012)


    That's an awesome list, but we do not even know the type of DBA role we're talking about here. Level 1 / Level 2 / Level 3 DBA that...

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  • RE: Confio Ignite tool for measuring SQL waits and performance

    I've been using Ignite for a couple of years now, and consider it a great tool.

    For example, when I first started using it, we had a situation where a code...

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  • RE: Subtotals in t-sql

    It's all a question of Union All and columns to control order and section. You can add as many sub-totals/grand-totals/summaries as you like, interspersed with the main data, by...

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