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If the database isn't going to remain tiny throughout it's lifespan, I generally start it at 1 Gig and set the growth to 1 Gig. Sure, that sometimes means...
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October 20, 2009 at 11:37 am
Silverfox, if you notice my second-to-last paragraph, I pretty much cover what most companies are looking for, and that's what you're describing.
My contention is that generalization produces less efficiency than...
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October 20, 2009 at 11:33 am
Standard Edition does many things that Workgroup doesn't. Microsoft has a side-by-side feature comparison here for 2008: http://www.microsoft.com/sqlserver/2008/en/us/editions.aspx
and here for 2005: http://www.microsoft.com/Sqlserver/2005/en/us/Compare-Features.aspx
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October 20, 2009 at 11:04 am
Delete doesn't reset identity values. If you need to do that, you need to use temp tables and use truncate instead of delete.
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October 20, 2009 at 10:51 am
I prefer server-side traces over Profiler, but it's the same concept.
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October 20, 2009 at 9:48 am
That's the kind of thing I meant in my examples when I mentioned using the logs as an audit method. If you check my articles on audit trails and...
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October 20, 2009 at 9:30 am
Ian Scarlett (10/20/2009)
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October 20, 2009 at 9:21 am
I prefer using the Output clause these days. SO much more useful, and I don't have to worry about using one method for single-row CRUD and another for multi-row....
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October 20, 2009 at 8:48 am
If all they're going to do is administer, not performance tune or write code, I'd focus on questions about backup chains and types, I/O performance, that kind of thing. ...
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October 20, 2009 at 8:44 am
Declare an @ID variable and use "select @ID = scope_identity()", then use as normal.
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October 20, 2009 at 8:41 am
You're welcome.
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October 20, 2009 at 7:37 am
The msdb database has a history of backups and restores. The system tables in there are pretty easy to work with.
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October 20, 2009 at 7:36 am
If I'm reading your request correctly, you might want to use something like this:
declare @Variable sql_variant;
select @Variable =
case
when datepart(weekday, getdate()) = 6 then FridayValue
else...
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October 20, 2009 at 7:34 am
steveb. (10/20/2009)
GilaMonster (10/16/2009)
Index types. Never yet found someone who could tell me two types and the differences between them
Seriously? I find this a bit worrying, ...
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October 20, 2009 at 7:27 am
Change from using an In statement to a Left Join.
SELECT
origin_latitude,
origin_longitude,
COUNT(*) AS Structures
FROM
towergrid_reference_natowers AS towers
LEFT...
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October 20, 2009 at 7:22 am
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