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  • RE: let's have a debate on using numeric data type :-)!

    Grant Fritchey (5/6/2009)


    It really depends on the business requirements. But if you're dealing with hard numbers, I'd use decimal instead of float. Float is an approximate number. This is from...

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  • RE: multiple joins

    It'll depend on the columns and their indexes and stats.

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  • RE: Inner Join -select versus update

    Update and select don't necessarily end up with the same plan. For that matter, the same select can end up with different plans sometimes, under the right circumstances.

    Something you...

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  • RE: Flash

    I don't think it's all that many years away. Prices are coming down like crazy, and capacity and speed and reliability are way up every year.

    I wouldn't be surprised...

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  • RE: Any website to know about RDBMS fundamental concepts

    There are a couple of easy ways to get simple basics in T-SQL.

    One would be get a For Dummies book, or something like that.

    Another would be look stuff up in...

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  • RE: how to enable auditing in sql server 2005

    Are you asking how to enable it? Just not sure what your question is at this point.

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  • RE: Running out of memory

    Krasavita (5/4/2009)


    What about checking if we have enough space on sql server box where server leaves?

    Not sure what you mean.

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  • RE: Problem with sum( ) over (partion by)

    True on the "is null" thing. That's an important one.

    On the sub-query, it sounds like you may have come up with the classic "triangular join" that gives running total...

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  • RE: Any website to know about RDBMS fundamental concepts

    How fundamental is fundamental? Are you looking for a few practical basics, or for the underlying theory and the set-based math of that, or for a few definitions, or...

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  • RE: Deleting Millions of Rows from Multiple Tables

    dmc (5/5/2009)


    There is nothing worse than a set based operation on millions upon millions of rows, especially when it hits an error and spends just as much time rolling back...

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  • RE: WANTED: UDF for Least Squares estimate

    You're almost certainly going to be better off looking for .NET versions, and plugging them in as CLR functions.

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  • RE: Row Numbers in SQL

    In SQL 2000, you pretty much have to do this in steps. Select the top 4, then select the top 2 of that but with reversed ordering, then select...

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  • RE: Deleting Millions of Rows from Multiple Tables

    dmc (5/5/2009)


    Agreed. I guess its difficult to say what to do unless you are intimate to the situation. Maybe the code is as simple as some deletes and uses...

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  • RE: FOR XML EXPLICIT problem

    If you provide a sample of the output you're looking for, we can probably help you get there.

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  • RE: Deleting Millions of Rows from Multiple Tables

    Reviewing the code does make some sense. You might be able to make something more efficient.

    But if the proc does what's needed, why not just use it as-is? ...

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