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This whole thing is a bit concerning. Why do you have two databases on the same instance and why have they become different? There are a couple of slick tricks...
--Jeff Moden
Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.
December 22, 2021 at 8:43 pm
I find it hard to believe that most folks would ever run out of BIGINT values under normal situations. The field on the other database being a VARCHAR(50) is concerning...
--Jeff Moden
Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.
December 22, 2021 at 8:40 pm
Where I work, the DBA doesn't do the updates. The infrastructure team does the Windows and SQL Server updates.
We wait a week after they come out and look for the...
--Jeff Moden
Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.
December 22, 2021 at 8:26 pm
It's a funny thing about "drill downs"... I love it when folks drill down to the final layer of 100,000 rows and then wonder what to do.
It is possible to...
--Jeff Moden
Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.
December 22, 2021 at 4:57 am
Now THAT was an "HR guy" that understood!
--Jeff Moden
Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.
December 22, 2021 at 4:44 am
A minor optimization on DesNorton's good code would be to remove the ISNULL from the CASE WHEN because a NULL can't be greater than 0 (nor equal to or less...
--Jeff Moden
Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.
December 22, 2021 at 2:37 am
Really nice SQL "Oolie", Steve! 😀
--Jeff Moden
Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.
December 22, 2021 at 2:05 am
No problem and totally understood. I wanted to make sure that you weren't waiting on me.
You're health and then you work come first. Take your time.
--Jeff Moden
Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.
December 22, 2021 at 1:42 am
There's also the possibility that all 3 queries actually suck. 😀 You'll need to look at the execution plans, as well. Just don't make the mistake of using % of...
--Jeff Moden
Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.
December 22, 2021 at 1:16 am
There is a error in the application logs with table name not allowing nulls into column. However, the sql server error log does not show which proc is causing...
--Jeff Moden
Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.
December 22, 2021 at 1:00 am
I once had a ticket to update a field in the ERP system while working in the data warehouse. Their programmers were swamped, and they thought it was a...
--Jeff Moden
Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.
December 22, 2021 at 12:53 am
Heh... mine has started off with a bit of a "well that sucks" factor. Whole new time-keeping system where they want me to categorize virtually every aspect of...
--Jeff Moden
Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.
December 22, 2021 at 12:36 am
Yes, agree that it would benefit in the read loads. But we should also consider the overhead of CI on write operations. So if the database is...
--Jeff Moden
Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.
December 22, 2021 at 12:26 am
Ah... figured it out Steve... quite by accident, as well.
Here's what I'm seeing...

I didn't want to post such a large graphic and so I zoomed out to only...
--Jeff Moden
Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.
December 21, 2021 at 11:58 pm
I've not seen any recent replies on this thread lately. I think I'm waiting on some small sample files from you but we've been back and forth on that so...
--Jeff Moden
Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.
December 21, 2021 at 1:50 am
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