Why? That's as bad a double post. You're just gonna make people mad...

Good list, like everyone else said. Just no hair in the list...

I'd first ask them if they've actually tested their code on a 64 bit machine. I'd want...

How many times have you run the test? First section of the test caches the data for the second one. Try reversing the two tests and see what...

Good stuff, Phil... we had some critical stuff we needed to do as a batch job and, for sure, it required "SA" privs and xp_cmdShell...

I love my DBA... she...

Ken Gaul (2/18/2008)

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Be careful you just lost the DISTINCT clause which may or may not be important or required, only the data can tell you.

Still can't see why anyone would...

Although using FSO through sp_OA is a wonderful idea... it still requires "SA" privs. Not complaining or arguing... just reminding 🙂

Schnurdle (2/18/2008)

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I'm not defending the cursor, but wouldn't the proposed solution cause potential Tempdb locking problems?

I always create the temp table first, then INSERT into it to avoid such issues.

e.g.

--Create...

Sure thing, CA... thanks for asking...

http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Advanced+Querying/61716/

... and thanks for the kudo on formatting. I do it mostly so I can read it 😀

What are you using to measure the times with? Typically, I'll use SET STATISTICS TIME ON... the CPU time is the actual time it took sans any display. ...

Heh... if you don't care so much about a trigger providing a friendly error, you can always just have the table lock itself up when you create it...

CREATE TABLE YourTable...

Thanks for the feedback, Julie... hmm... maybe I should publish it here, as well.

What an awesome article... I've seen quite a few on the same topic, but this one "nutshells" the whole 9 yards very nicely. It's definitely a keeper.

Thanks for...

Actually, the help system in SQL Server is pretty good. Comes free with SQL Server. It's called "Books Online".

Yes... it does have a disadvantage similar to many other programs that import data... the date must be formatted consistently from row to row including the header, if there is...

ebuss_2004 (2/17/2008)

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Thanks. I am new at this cursor and trying to modify someone else code so that it run faster. I wonder why would someone use Cursor if we can...