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  • RE: Running Sql Server Program files on RAID10 - is this necessary for performance ?

    I usually have the OS and SQL Server binaries on a separate drive than the data files or log files.

    What I'm mostly looking at these days is:

    C: (internal drive) OS...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    jcrawf02 (2/27/2012)


    Has anyone implemented an ENDOFTIME()/BEGINNINGOFTIME() pair of functions before? taking a date and a period, returning the start/end of said period? Read an article from Itzik which mentioned such...

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  • RE: Why maxdop 1 ?

    I don't think a stats update could be done in parallel. It pretty much needs to count values in columns, and spreading that out to multiple threads doesn't seem...

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  • RE: Better option than using Stored procedures

    MyDoggieJessie (2/27/2012)


    But fact that the execution plans for the procs are often cached and more likely to be reused isn't though. This isn't an option when running ad hoc...

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  • RE: London Job Market

    Have you tried using LinkedIn to contact any connections from that area? I've found that useful in researching this kind of thing.

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  • RE: Going to Dev Edition

    It's going to be the same as installing Enterprise Edition on a cluster. Are you familiar with that?

    If it's an active/passive cluster, then start here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms189134.aspx

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  • RE: Better option than using Stored procedures

    The bit about procs being pre-compiled is actually the IT version of an urban legend.

    But the bit about refactoring a proc being easier than rebuilding and redeploying a report is...

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  • RE: How to get the inner XML from an xml element using XQuery

    Will this suffice?

    DECLARE @XML XML = '<root><Books><Book><ID>2</ID><Name>Sql Server Admin</Name>

    <Author><Name>Joseph</Name><Age>35</Age></Author></Book></Books></root>' ;

    SELECT @XML.query('/root/Books/Book/Author') ;

    If not, you'll need to query the values within the Author node, and then recompose it into XML with...

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  • RE: Are the posted answers getting worse?

    patrickmcginnis59 (2/27/2012)


    Well I asked for a clarification this week on a post, and the poster replied that he was sorry I wasn't able to understand his post, and he wouldn't...

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  • RE: Help with Logic

    If it has to be done for each load, then you either need to add that to the script/proc that puts data in that table, or you need to make...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    LutzM (2/27/2012)


    So, is SaraGate a new name for RedGate? :unsure:

    And, thank you, Brandie. Now I know there's a key required. So the area seems to be locked. I'll keep asking...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Lynn Pettis (2/27/2012)


    Just got off the phone with my new employer. I start work on March 5th, which gives me a nice one week vacation.

    Sounds about perfect.

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

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    GSquared (2/27/2012)


    Amusingly, that reminds me of one of the more common scam issues in EVE Online. The scam artist claims to be doing research on trust between strangers...

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  • RE: Generic Database Naming Convention

    I have a couple of lookup databases (like lookup tables, but it's the whole database). I'm not sure if that's what you mean.

    I have one database called "Common", that...

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  • RE: What is wrong with this insert query?

    How are you determining that the rows aren't there? A separate query?

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