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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Gads it takes a long time for an Oracle patch to apply...

    I probably could've just installed a new, updated instance by now...

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    You know, people may complain about the hassles of installing SPs and CUs and updating the OS of their SQL servers, but that's nothing compared to doing Oracle Quarterly patches...

    Having...

  • RE: Talking baseball

    Listening to commentary about the Tigers / Red Sox, they commented that it seems recently when Verlander is pitching, the offense takes the night off.

    It sure seemed like that was...

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Was just reading Grants' recap of the PASS Day 1 Keynote, and comparing it mentally to the recap Ozar had put up...

    Might be fun to lock the two of them...

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    rodjkidd (10/15/2013)


    GilaMonster (10/15/2013)


    rodjkidd (10/15/2013)


    You up to speed yet, by your tweets sounds like a long set of flights.

    Awake. Mostly. The pot of coffee that came with breakfast helped.

    8 hours...

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    How come, if all the smart people took today off to get a 4 day weekend where I work (we've got Monday off,) I'm still here?

    Oh, wait...

    I think I answered...

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    It's always somewhat interesting to see how long some blogs have gone without updates, yet are still around...

    I was looking for information on a SSRS issue (in QA so nothing...

  • RE: Today's Random Word!

    SQLRNNR (10/10/2013)


    tomahawk

    Harpoon

  • RE: Semi-hypothetical backup question

    Yeah, the deattach and send the MDF is what's been marked as the answer.

    I guess part of me is rather averse to deattach / reattach for some reason, even if...

  • RE: Update statistics job is failing

    I'm presuming that such a trigger would have better performance than the function (function has to work on every row where the computed column is selected, trigger catches the problem...

  • RE: Update statistics job is failing

    GilaMonster (10/8/2013)


    A better solution might be to change the column to numeric. Or is that not possible?

    That was my first suggestion, but according to the Dev, the people who send...

  • RE: Update statistics job is failing

    Once more, thanks Gail!

    The Dev put together a function to check for non-numeric characters, and if found, not create the computed value. In theory, the application which uses this...

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Stefan Krzywicki (10/7/2013)


    jasona.work (10/7/2013)


    Stefan Krzywicki (10/7/2013)


    Greg Edwards-268690 (10/7/2013)


    Steve Jones - SSC Editor (10/7/2013)


    Stefan Krzywicki (10/1/2013)


    Grant Fritchey (10/1/2013)


    Please. For purposes of employment, some of us cannot comment on politics because no...

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    All hail the great and powerful Gail!

    With a couple suggestions, she put me on the right track to find what was breaking an update stats maintenance plan!

    Which I was then...

  • RE: Update statistics job is failing

    OK, found a better way then the cursor, and already tried it.

    Used this:

    select

    name

    , STATS_DATE(object_id, stats_id) as LastUpdated

    from sys.stats

    where object_id = 735341684

    order by LastUpdated asc;

    to see which stats hadn't been updated...

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