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  • RE: Scheduled job fails intermittently

    Glad I could help.

    If you want a full copy of Management Studio, get a copy of Dev Edition of either SQL 2005 or 2008. It's about $50 (US). ...

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  • RE: Tsql solution for inserting multiple values

    Glad we could help. You're welcome.

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  • RE: Query Performance

    Excellent. Definitely making progress. That also got rid of one of the nested loops joins and replaced it with a hash match. On this amount of data,...

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  • RE: Perform math on string

    hayzer (4/29/2009)


    GSquared (4/28/2009)


    If you want to convert a string like that to a time, then I recommend this method:

    declare @Time int;

    select @Time = 123757;

    select dateadd(second, @Time%100, dateadd(minute, @Time%10000/100, dateadd(hour, @Time/10000,...

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  • RE: T-SQL Loop Question

    Yeah, I've used the export...import method too. That works well in some situations. I've found it quite advantageous when the data has to move across a slow network....

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  • RE: Physical File Defragmentation

    Before I knew what I was doing, I had a database set up with autogrow at 10% and autoshrink was on too. After a year or so, the drive...

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  • RE: Data Flow Suggestions? Anyone?...Ferris?

    Personally, I don't think I've ever used SSIS to move data from one SQL database to another, on the same server. I use T-SQL scripts/procs for that. It's...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    You must cut down the largest tree in the forest, with ... a herring!

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  • RE: Query Performance

    There are a couple of conditions in the Join clause that look like they belong in the Where clause. The ones about provider type and address type.

    Try moving those...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    ROTFLMAO. All I could see was the commercial on TV where people started throwing candy bars at the deer!

    I don't watch TV, so I have absolutely no clue what you're...

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  • RE: Scheduled job fails intermittently

    Sorry, I'm so used to Management Studio that I sometimes forget to check which forum I'm in.

    In Enterprise Manager, you'd go to Management, Jobs, right-click the failed job, "View Job...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Lynn Pettis (4/28/2009)


    Bob Hovious (4/28/2009)


    You know, I guess it is really hard to teach someone fish when you are in the middle of the desert...

    Somewhere that man is getting well...

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  • RE: Find next value , using CTES ?

    If you can't make it an identity, then take a look at Row_Number().

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  • RE: SQL2008 justification

    The performance boost depends greatly on what you're doing.

    The boost from moving away from OLE automation to using CLR is huge, if you do that.

    The boost related to migrating adjacency...

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  • RE: looping help

    Read the article on Simple-Talk. It's not horribly complex, but it's not "only a child can do it"-simple, either. See if it makes sense to you.

    It can be...

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