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  • RE: Taking Notes – Paper or Keyboard?

    Pen and paper, on a regular notepad.

    To-do items, I copy into a ticketing system.

    I periodically review the notepad and put a checkmark over items that require no further attention at...

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  • RE: Apostrophes and Double Quotes - Should They be Allowed in table Text-Type Columns?

    mtillman-921105 (1/30/2012)


    Well, if they're not already doing so, I hope that new programming languages start using another delimiter for strings other than quotes. Even brackets "[]" would have been...

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  • RE: Any Other Problem with NOLOCK other than Dirty Reads?

    Rob-350472 (1/31/2012)


    Just wondering what you'd make of using nolock in this situation...

    You want to obtain the most recent communication and a count of communications for a particular customer.

    Running that...

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  • RE: Any Other Problem with NOLOCK other than Dirty Reads?

    SQL Kiwi (1/30/2012)


    GSquared (1/30/2012)


    It will potentially save the CPU overhead of establishing a shared lock. On a seriously overloaded system, that could be beneficial.

    The Read Committed isolation level guarantees...

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  • RE: Database Issue--Please Help

    What version and edition of SQL Server did you run it on? I'm on 2008 R2 SP1 Dev Edition.

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  • RE: Morale Data

    Steve Jones - SSC Editor (1/30/2012)


    Stephanie J Brown (1/30/2012)


    I'm not sure I agree with the "companies who would use it don't need it; companies that need it would abuse it"...

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  • RE: Foreign Key reference with Synonym

    PaulB-TheOneAndOnly (1/30/2012)


    As already pointed out in this thread there is not such a thing as cross-database referential integrity therefore you cannot have a real FK pointing to a PK in...

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  • RE: Where can I download a Thesaurus file?

    Thanks.

    I'm about to implement a fairly large first-names thesaurus, and was curious if your experience covered performance hits. I'll be testing it, of course, but data from others with...

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  • RE: Any Other Problem with NOLOCK other than Dirty Reads?

    SQLKnowItAll (1/30/2012)


    jcb (1/30/2012)


    For example it can be used for domain tables, since these tables dont change daily (or even monthly) the dirty reads ill no to be a issue.

    Why use...

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  • RE: validate imported spreadsheet data against the original spreadsheet

    Matt Miller (#4) (1/30/2012)


    GSquared (1/30/2012)


    Matt Miller (#4) (1/27/2012)


    In terms of validation: you can run aggregate functions in both the excel file and against the table to make suer you...

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  • RE: Apostrophes and Double Quotes - Should They be Allowed in table Text-Type Columns?

    Stripping that kind of thing from a string does, obviously, take some CPU cycles, but it's usually minimal. Might make a difference on a server that was close to...

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  • RE: Where can I download a Thesaurus file?

    Lowell, with that size thesaurus, did you see a significant performance hit on FTS queries? Or did you test it that far?

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  • RE: Apostrophes and Double Quotes - Should They be Allowed in table Text-Type Columns?

    mtillman-921105 (1/30/2012)


    Sean Lange (1/30/2012)


    Yes they should be allowed. The system should NEVER NEVER NEVER change the data. The job of sql is store and retrieve data. If there are challenges...

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  • RE: Where do you save your Create By/Date and Modify By/Date information?

    The order of the columns in the table shouldn't matter. If it does, views are the way to go.

    Personally, I consider this pattern of data auditing to be more...

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  • RE: Any Other Problem with NOLOCK other than Dirty Reads?

    GSquared (1/30/2012)


    As another potential drawback for NoLock, I've actually seen it crash a server, requiring database repair.

    A shared connection (from a web server, of course) ran into two concurrent missing...

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