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Reply To: Tempdb is filling due to background process.
The OP said "but that session is a background session with a command of "DB Startup" and that he has the logfile being backed up an truncating every hour but...
--Jeff Moden
RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.
Helpful Links:
How to post code problems
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Reply To: Duplicate Documents
What type of files are you doing this for? Plaiu text., CSV, TSV, PDF, what?
--Jeff Moden
RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.
Helpful Links:
How to post code problems
How to Post Performance Problems
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Reply To: Understanding allowed topics for testing
You might want to send an email to webmaster@sqlservercentral.com with that question.
--Jeff Moden
RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.
Helpful Links:
How to post code problems
How to Post Performance Problems
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Reply To: Learning to Grind
I think people have been going a bit nuts for the last 15 or so years and especially in the last 6 or so years. I just found out about...
--Jeff Moden
RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.
Helpful Links:
How to post code problems
How to Post Performance Problems
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Reply To: Are the posted questions getting worse?
Brandie Tarvin wrote:Eirikur Eiriksson wrote:Does anyone have an idea for RPO 😉
Return Porkchop Output
EDIT: Or Rebounding Porkchop Objective?
--Jeff Moden
RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.
Helpful Links:
How to post code problems
How to Post Performance Problems
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Reply To: Are the posted questions getting worse?
ZZartin wrote:Brandie Tarvin wrote:Interviewing for open position...
My boss: Rate your SQL skills & knowledge on a scale of 1 to 10.
Interviewee: 7 or 8
Me: Let's talk about backups and restores.
Interviewee: I...
--Jeff Moden
RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.
Helpful Links:
How to post code problems
How to Post Performance Problems
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Reply To: Are the posted questions getting worse?
Too much fun, Michael!
--Jeff Moden
RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.
Helpful Links:
How to post code problems
How to Post Performance Problems
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Reply To: The Random Rows
I have to disagree with the answer here. If you run the code more than once, it comes up with the same 10 rows. Therefor, they are NOT "random rows"....
--Jeff Moden
RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.
Helpful Links:
How to post code problems
How to Post Performance Problems
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Reply To: The Paradox of NOLOCK: How Dirty Reads Can Sometimes Be Cleaner
MMartin1 wrote:Hey Jeff, was simply responding to the question on the scenario you posed.
Totally understood and I was just answering the new question.
Just to say it again, there is no...
--Jeff Moden
RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.
Helpful Links:
How to post code problems
How to Post Performance Problems
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Reply To: The Paradox of NOLOCK: How Dirty Reads Can Sometimes Be Cleaner
andrew gothard wrote:Try fixing things, rather than breaking them further.
Now that, I agree with!
A lot of people immediately respond with "Well, just turn on RCSI". Folks really need to be careful...
--Jeff Moden
RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.
Helpful Links:
How to post code problems
How to Post Performance Problems
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Reply To: The Paradox of NOLOCK: How Dirty Reads Can Sometimes Be Cleaner
MMartin1 wrote:Jeff. I'll take a crack at your question:
In your example, are you assuming the date column is indexed and would be used? What if that is not the case,...
--Jeff Moden
RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.
Helpful Links:
How to post code problems
How to Post Performance Problems
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Reply To: The Paradox of NOLOCK: How Dirty Reads Can Sometimes Be Cleaner
Randolph West wrote:Jeff, with RCSI enabled, it’s barely if ever necessary.
Agreed... all you have to do there is accept an extra 14 bytes per row and extra usage of TempDB. Since...
--Jeff Moden
RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.
Helpful Links:
How to post code problems
How to Post Performance Problems
Create a Tally Function (fnTally) -
Reply To: The Paradox of NOLOCK: How Dirty Reads Can Sometimes Be Cleaner
rick-1071254 wrote:On what grounds?
Uh, because the data is right, and the implementation is right.
You set up a straw man, where this condition applies, and you don't care about this,...
--Jeff Moden
RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.
Helpful Links:
How to post code problems
How to Post Performance Problems
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Reply To: The Paradox of NOLOCK: How Dirty Reads Can Sometimes Be Cleaner
The responses are as expected... some hardcore "NEVER"s.
To those people, I ask, if you want a simple report, say the number of products purchased by day for the previous calendar...
--Jeff Moden
RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.
Helpful Links:
How to post code problems
How to Post Performance Problems
Create a Tally Function (fnTally) -
Reply To: The Paradox of NOLOCK: How Dirty Reads Can Sometimes Be Cleaner
With regard to the following code from the article...
CREATE PROCEDURE dbo.GetDashboardStats
AS
BEGIN
SET TRANSACTION ISOLATION LEVEL READ UNCOMMITTED
SELECT
(SELECT COUNT(*) FROM Orders WITH (NOLOCK)
WHERE OrderDate = CAST(GETDATE() AS...--Jeff Moden
RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.
Helpful Links:
How to post code problems
How to Post Performance Problems
Create a Tally Function (fnTally)
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