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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    jcrawf02 (5/27/2011)


    GSquared (5/27/2011)


    Gianluca Sartori (5/26/2011)


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    jcrawf02 (5/26/2011)


    Wow, you thought that there were too many other DBAs that were better suited than Brandie? That's not very nice...

    😛

    Funny, but you...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    ALZDBA (5/27/2011)


    GilaMonster (5/27/2011)


    Elliott Whitlow (5/26/2011)


    Jan Van der Eecken (5/26/2011)


    GilaMonster (5/26/2011)


    One very uncomfortable PM sent...

    From the posts the person has made, they are totally out of their depth. 6TB DBs, major...

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  • RE: Looking for Work in SQL Server

    Jake Shelton (5/26/2011)


    I'm quite happy now Jan, don't get me wrong, BUT....just because I've moved on from the poor experience that doesn't mean I forget it. The article just...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    SQLkiwi (5/26/2011)


    Steve Jones - SSC Editor (5/26/2011)


    I'll say that most of the better applications were self-written. It's hard for someone else to do a good job listing everything you do.

    A...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Gianluca Sartori (5/26/2011)


    jcrawf02 (5/26/2011)


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    jcrawf02 (5/26/2011)


    Wow, you thought that there were too many other DBAs that were better suited than Brandie? That's not very nice...

    😛

    Funny, but you know this...

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  • RE: Tally Table vs. While Loop

    vineet_dubey1975 (5/26/2011)


    Can we address above issue or Senario by using SSIS Packages ?

    We are receiving CSVs files where order of column changed but is correct.

    for e.g.

    file1 columns0 ...

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  • RE: Database Kill

    Eric M Russell (5/20/2011)


    GSquared (5/20/2011)


    Eric M Russell (5/19/2011)


    My guess is that either the transaction has already completed or you've rebooted the server by now. However, I found an article on...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    GilaMonster (5/25/2011)


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    GilaMonster (5/25/2011)


    Grant and I are talking Execution plans for a whole day at PASS Summit this year.

    You are all coming? Right?

    Are these the extra breakout sessions that...

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  • RE: Tally Table vs. While Loop

    Lamprey13 (5/25/2011)


    I realize this doesn't actually help provide a solution to your actual question, but I've been through this before, albeit non-medical. And, trust me, there is no valid solution...

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  • RE: Tally Table vs. While Loop

    Okay. That matches what I expected.

    Have you looked into OpenRowset? It can read data directly from Excel or CSV files into a staging table.

    The staging table might have...

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  • RE: Data loss from trigger firing before its previous execution is done.

    I'd have to see the tables to really rewrite this, but this trigger has a fair number of "don't ever do that" kind of code in it.

    First, you're denormalizing data...

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  • RE: Tally Table vs. While Loop

    It looks to me like loading the data into pre-built tables with the correct column names and all that would be easier.

    Is there a reason that you have to go...

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  • RE: Looking for reasons...

    As far as what you're describing in the original post, I'd probably use an Outer Apply from A to B, or to a temp table that held the aggregated data...

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  • RE: From Great Idea to End Result

    djackson 22568 (5/24/2011)


    roger.plowman (5/24/2011)


    Shudder.

    Steve, that's a recipe for absolute disaster.

    First, you're falling into the "get it out the door, we'll test it afterward" trap. Second, users will initially love it,...

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  • RE: Stored procedure names starting with "sp_" ...

    The whole point of the sp_ prefix is to tell SQL Server to look in master first. It gives a slight performance improvement on applications that use the system...

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