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  • RE: Indexes on large tables

    Can you expand the filegroup, or perhaps create a separate filegroup for the indexes?

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  • RE: date as primary key

    Either will work. I use my version, because someone who doesn't know the tricks of dateadd won't have the faintest clue what that one does. Could be documented...

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  • RE: Moving System Databases from Standard to Enterprise

    kevin.kunz (7/28/2008)


    In place upgrade!

    That's already been suggested and apparently isn't a viable option.

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  • RE: Indexes on large tables

    Just keep in mind that indexes on large tables take up large amounts of disk space.

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  • RE: Deterministic Functions

    john.arnott (7/28/2008)


    jims posted code:

    Set Nocount On

    Create Table #Temp

    (

    Val int

    )

    Insert Into #Temp values (1)

    Insert Into #Temp values (2)

    Insert Into #Temp values (3)

    Insert Into #Temp values (4)

    Insert Into #Temp values (5)

    Set...

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  • RE: Index rebuilding fails due to a text column

    Taking indexing offline mainly reduces the hit on tempdb. I don't think it makes any particular speed difference, but I haven't tested that so can't be sure. Certainly...

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  • RE: How to show the column wise data into row wise

    Every tool has it's right place. For what you're talking about, I'd use dynamic SQL too (and probably crib it from your workbench - I use a lot of...

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  • RE: Cursors and variables outside them

    If it starts with a value, it will have that value until something resets it, updates it, or it goes out of scope. I don't see anything in your...

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  • RE: Cursors and variables outside them

    Have you tested the value? Added a select or print command after the assignment to see what value it is?

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  • RE: date as primary key

    If you don't want time data in there, make sure to put a check constraint on the column that forces the hours, minutes, seconds and milliseconds to be zero. ...

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  • RE: One Heck of a Query

    The first thing I'd do is break it apart a little bit. Try running the derived table queries separately.

    The one thing I see in the execution plan that might...

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  • RE: Indexes on large tables

    A clustered index on ProgramDate and half_hour_id looks like it might be a good candidate for the clustered index. You use both in Where and Join clauses, and they'll...

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  • RE: xp_cmdshell & PowerShell

    I didn't bother looking at the second one, so I missed that. The whole thing looks like a mess to me.

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  • RE: How to show the column wise data into row wise

    Phil, here's why I recommend pivoting data outside of SQL.

    Using your sample, I inserted 1-million rows of data into the same table structure you used.

    Then I added three more months...

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  • RE: SQL 2005/Mgmt Studio won't close database on exit

    I don't know of a formal method to mark a thread as done. Usually, they just end with the original poster saying something like you just did. "Hey,...

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