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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    There are times that I give really short answers that basically amount to "here's the keyword you need to search online/in BOL". Even in those cases, I make it...

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  • RE: Sum not subtracting Negative Numbers?

    I just tried this and got the right results:

    create table #T (

    ID int identity primary key,

    Dim int,

    Val int);

    insert into #T (Dim, Val)

    select 1, 1 union all

    select 1, 2 union all

    select...

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  • RE: Alter all the bit columns to allow null

    There isn't a single statement for it, but you could write a script that would do it all at once.

    Would look something like this:

    select

    'alter table ' +

    (select name

    from...

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  • RE: Your Point of View

    The more you know, the harder it is to judge nuanced issues, but the more likely you are to judge correctly when you do get around to it.

    Some things are...

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  • RE: Importing Data and New Hardware (Database Weekly)

    There's a human tendency to see patterns in chaos. Sometimes we see real patterns, other times we just dub stuff in because we're wired to do so. Can't...

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  • RE: Check Yourself

    "Trust but verify"

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  • RE: Monitoring a Table/ Log for a table

    If your database is in Full recovery mode, you can get who/what/when on updates and such by using a log parser. ApexSQL has a good one, and I think...

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  • RE: Audit Log Question - May be silly

    These two articles and their discussions cover the subject pretty thoroughly. If you haven't already, you might take a look at them:

    http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Auditing/63247/

    http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Auditing/63248/

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  • RE: How are deletes handeled when it comes to fill factor

    Deletes don't cause page splits. Inserts and updates that are out-of-clustered-sequence do.

    If page splits and fragmentation are the problem you're working on, focus on inserts and updates that affect...

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  • RE: Qry Performance

    Jack Corbett (9/18/2009)


    You could also take the OR's and do a union instead.

    Select

    From

    table

    Where

    column between a and b AND

    ...

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  • RE: How are deletes handeled when it comes to fill factor

    I may be misreading this, but if I understand you correctly, that's not precisely how fill factor works.

    Data is stored in 8k pages. If you have small rows, like...

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  • RE: Some interesting thoughts on SQL Server

    Insofar as multiple instances running on the same binaries, I have to ask "why bother?"

    The only reason I can think of to have multiple instances of SQL Server on the...

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  • RE: Mr or Mrs 500

    It's a baseball reference.

    Check this http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic447796-4-1.aspx for further discussion on the levels.

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  • RE: It's The Job

    The linked article seemed more than a little self-serving and biased to me.

    I've worked with a lot of IT people, and a lot of non-IT people, and the thing I...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Silverfox (9/23/2009)


    Gianluca Sartori (9/23/2009)


    If he insists killing processes without knowing what they do, let him do it.

    He already has decided to increase lock timeout and kill process, so, why bother?

    Has...

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