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  • RE: Odd issue with the SQL Agent

    Have you checked a trace on tempdb to see what's building up crud in there?

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  • RE: Add a persisted calculated column? Or stay with the indexed view?

    The problem you're running into is because the table violates third normal form. Assuming you can't do much about that, I'd say a calculated column will do what you...

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  • RE: Making the best of a bad RAID situation

    B is probably your best bet with those drives. Hard drive arrangement is part of server optimization, but it's usually far less important than well-written code.

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  • RE: db design - daily and report db question + use of replication for this aim ?

    It can be a good thing to split data into current and older tables. I've used that idea a few times very successfully.

    Log shipping is a way of keeping...

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  • RE: Ad hocs queries on a heavy insert table

    krypto69 (2/2/2009)


    You'd have to know before-hand what kind of stuff they query.

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    I think I can get a pretty good list of the kinda stuff they query the most,...

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  • RE: Strange network error

    I don't think it's a problem with SQL Server. I think it's a problem with your network. Looks like something might be up with you DNS. I...

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  • RE: Count() with expressions, vs. numerics

    I'm not clear on what you're asking for. Can you expand on it?

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  • RE: Ad hocs queries on a heavy insert table

    You'd have to know before-hand what kind of stuff they query.

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  • RE: SSIS Package keeps failing

    Is that a local account or a domain account? The error is saying it can't connect to the domain server to get credentials for the owner of the job....

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  • RE: Unique indexes

    In SQL 2005, unique constraints are enforced by an index, so there's no gain to that.

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  • RE: Does anyone has some nice whitepapers about Indexing

    You might try MSDN for that. All the data is there, as published by Microsoft.

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  • RE: SQL or Oracle

    Luke L (2/2/2009)


    Heh.. I still do the wood/axe/fire thing for heat. The price is right and the exercise is good too. Nothing like smacking a piece of wood...

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  • RE: SQL or Oracle

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    Jeff Moden (2/1/2009)


    Of course, I used to think punched cards and wired program boards were a lot of fun, too! 😛

    You should see the faces of the young-un's here...

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  • RE: Tracking Changes with XML

    This article has some data on that, and there's more in the discussion:

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

    What I've done since then is work out an audit trigger that looks something like this:

    create trigger dbo.MyTable_Audit...

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  • RE: Tutorial/Tips on writing SPs that are fast and upto standards of development

    One thing you could do is post specific stored procedures on this forum, and ask for help with them. Make it clear in the post that you're new to...

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