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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    as long as it is liable or slander you should at least respect what I say

    I think there should be a "not" in there. Right?

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  • RE: Intruding into Dummy Websites

    Good idea Phil.

    Most companies need to actually set up a parallel system, with dummy data, and "tiger team" it, by deliberately hacking the fake site. Any dummy data they...

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  • RE: How to create a database with its correct zise

    18 Gig with 2% growth per day will pass the 24 Gig mark in just about 2 weeks. It'll be over 600 Gig in 6 months. Assuming compound...

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  • RE: Significance of Partitioning on Two Related Tables

    Well, the thing you most hope to avoid is the one that's most likely to bite you in the ...

    🙂

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  • RE: Handling Null's in an End_Date Column

    Mike McQueen (6/1/2009)


    No love for the ISNULL it seems- can you guys explain the negatives of doing it that way? Thanks 😀

    I know there is the small performance hit, is...

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  • RE: Triggers Basic

    The trigger will fire once. It's absolutely critical that triggers be built so they can efficiently handle multiple rows.

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Bob Hovious (6/1/2009)


    Can anyone who has been through the partitioning wars give me some advice here?

    I suggested load-testing three scenarios. Really, that's how you'll get the best solution for...

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  • RE: Significance of Partitioning on Two Related Tables

    I suspect that you're best action would be to keep the tables partioned the same way, so as to avoid extra overhead in querying even more partitions.

    What you might do...

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  • RE: table design --- Over Normalization??

    I can't fully judge it based just on your description, but I'm going to say that's not normalization, that's something else. It's based on a relatively common misconception of...

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  • RE: Passed 70-448!

    Grats and well done!

    And, of course, thanks for the information. Very good write-up, without being any sort of brain dump or anything. That's good.

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  • RE: Search does not work on varchar(max)

    Jus (6/1/2009)


    Hello GSquared..

    Wonder is that when i ran your code it works...but in my db, it returns no records...

    --Jus

    That almost certainly means there are no exact matches for that Where...

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  • RE: Search does not work on varchar(max)

    Jack Corbett (6/1/2009)


    Lynn Pettis (6/1/2009)


    Okay, now tell us what you are trying accomplish. I can't see a correlation between your data and the query from your original post. ...

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  • RE: Handling Null's in an End_Date Column

    I've used calculated columns for that kind of thing a few times, but I've generally found the best is a history table. Set up the indexes on them correctly,...

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  • RE: Search does not work on varchar(max)

    I just tested this:

    set nocount on;

    if object_id(N'tempdb..#testcases') is not null

    drop table #testcases;

    CREATE TABLE #testcases(

    [testcase_id] [int] IDENTITY(1,1) NOT NULL,

    [ScenarioName] [varchar](max) COLLATE SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS NOT NULL,

    [scenario_category] [varchar](15) COLLATE SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS NULL,

    [expected_bundles] [varchar](max) COLLATE SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS...

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  • RE: Sql Server on Linux?

    There are ways to get Windows apps/services to run on Linux, but you're almost certainly better off using one of the RDBMSs that's designed for Linux/Unix. Like MySQL or...

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