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  • RE: Tuning CASE Staement

    Not real sure it'll increase performance because CASE statements in the SELECT list are normally pretty fast... BUT, things like the following...

    case when @nPlatformAssets = 0 then...

  • RE: TSQL to Check if SP is Currently Running?

    George Heinrich (3/26/2008)


    what I really want to know is how can you run a SP with multiple instances without getting a deadlock?

    There is... unfortunately, it requires a rewrite of...

  • RE: Reg Timestamp Data type

    krishrana17 (3/26/2008)


    but can u explain me what is the benefit of timestamp column??

    About the only thing it's good for is to let you know that something has changed. Each...

  • RE: Storing files in VLDBs, filegroups and maintenance

    I've never had a problem with the backups staying in synch... that's what the "Archive" bit is for. But, yes, I can see where that could cause problems for...

  • RE: Dropping Stored Procedures

    Guess I'm still worried :hehe:

    Are you generating scripts from the Dev database, every day, to promote to the Production database?

  • RE: Dropping Stored Procedures

    Chirag (3/26/2008)


    Hi

    Jeff - we are still in the development phase of the project. What i meant was that daily there are some modifications to the procedures. This does not...

  • RE: getting unique records from a table

    Ganesh,

    Can you help me out, please? Why don't you care what the SName for a given roll is so long as you return one? Like I said... I'm...

  • RE: getting unique records from a table

    I appreciate that very much. I'm thinking that's not quite the same because the OP said they didn't care which row was returned... you would think in the example...

  • RE: getting unique records from a table

    I've never understood this type of request... and it's a fairly frequent request. If the SName (in this case) doesn't matter, why bother? Not trying to be a...

  • RE: Find database tables and coloumns

    You'll need to write some dynamic SQL that uses the Information_Schema views... both are in Books Online. This will likely require a loop of some sort... most prefer a...

  • RE: Best way to reindex large tables/indexes

    Vivien Xing (3/25/2008)


    So in terms of speed is this relativly slow, due to it leaving the table available?

    ---> No

    And in terms of the transaction log; potentially this will make...

  • RE: data type question

    I just can't bring myself to believe in any test that uses RBAR as much as that :sick:

    And, over a million rows, datatype isn't going to make much...

  • RE: What would you do?Update situation....

    Something less than a million rows at a time in order by the clustered primary key with a 10 second delay between million row updates.

  • RE: Selecting non assigned items

    I think I will stick with not in and not exists from now on.

    Heh... Except on Tuesdays... that's when the "SQL Run Fast" button is automatically recycled to overcome all...

  • RE: Reg Timestamp Data type

    ALZDBA (3/25/2008)


    Good old BOL did it again, thanks for the rectification.

    Here's a little test script I've found back from my test (sql7)

    Just to demonstrate simple working of it.

    Aye... nicely done,...

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