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  • RE: What's the best way to create à clustered index?

    I may be missing something, but this seems odd to me. You monitor approximately 1,000 websites, and have been doing so for about 3 years, with the normal traffic...

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  • RE: Optional BEGIN...END keywords when creating procs

    I don't bother with them. They currently have no function, and they don't make the proc more clear to me.

    One of the developers at the place I work uses...

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  • RE: SQL Job failing because of Job owner

    I guess I don't see why it has to be uppercase in the SQL Agent Job Owner field. I've typed them in lower-case in that field without difficulty.

    I think...

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  • RE: Debugger For SQL

    Sorry for the latency. Really busy for a few days.

    In my test, I didn't actually transmit any data with XML. I just used an XML data type to...

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  • RE: Problem with NULL values

    If you want to include nulls, but make sure they don't exist in the target table, you'll have to do two tests.

    Do your "Where Not In" test, then also add:

    or...

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  • RE: Problem with NULL values

    "Where Not In" returns all values that aren't contained in the set. Since null is an unknown value, it could be equal to anything, so Where Not In won't...

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  • RE: "Defragging" an index that wont defrag

    I don't believe that defragmenting a nonclustered index on a heap table works.

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  • RE: Debugger For SQL

    And, of course, I ask for your benchmark, and we post at the same time. 🙂

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  • RE: Debugger For SQL

    Carl, I just performed the following test. Please tell me what you're doing differently in this benchmark than what I'm doing:

    create table dbo.Calendar (

    Date datetime primary key,

    constraint CK_Date check

    (datepart(hour,...

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  • RE: Help on script using cursor

    If you run that code as-is, you shouldn't need the cursor.

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  • RE: Errors from Import into an Empty Database

    If it's meant to be an exact copy of the source database, you might consider backup and restore. It's faster and more effective than the wizard.

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  • RE: pivot between vertical & horizontal format with more than 1024 columns.

    You'll either need to output it as two data sets or as XML. Since I suggested XML above, and you're still asking, I'll assume that's not a viable solution...

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  • RE: Why different output where and join clauses

    The difference is because Joins are done before Wheres. The Join clause eliminates certain rows that the Where clause would allow, or the Join clause includes certain rows that...

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  • RE: Generate random number

    rbarryyoung (8/15/2008)


    This raises an interesting question: how quickly can we generate an acceptably random pseudo-random sequence in SQL Server, without resorting the obvious built-in functions (rand, NewID, Checksum, the...

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  • RE: Debugging capabilities of SQLServer Mgmnt Studio?

    Probably is worth asking for. Probably won't get, but can't hurt to ask.

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