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  • RE: More newbie system table help

    Oh, by the way, Gail... we had emailed back an forth a couple of times on examples when the Estimated Execution plans lies like a rug... the Northwind example I...

  • RE: More newbie system table help

    Heh... correct on both problems...

    English skills on the part of the people I interviewed was not the problem, though. When you draw 1416 on a white board and say...

  • RE: can we modify system tables in SQL Server 2000?

    Nah... we'd loose the audiance between comebacks just like we did on this one 😀

  • RE: Limit Resources to UGLY query

    Heh, yeah... the key was the @Dummy variable in this case. Needed it to get by the mix of columns and variables because the value wasn't necessary. The...

  • RE: Update Trigger Updates Correct Record In Another Table

    Show me why the space calculations are wrong or why any calculation can justify the unnecessary space wasted and unnecessary performance hit of auditing inserts.

    And, although you said...

    "Trying to...

  • RE: can we modify system tables in SQL Server 2000?

    Heh... maybe... it did turn our shining carriage into a pumkin...:D

  • RE: Limit Resources to UGLY query

    Heh... no... not real painful 😀 Let me explain...

    Let's say you have a table that looks like this...

    --===== Create and populate a 1,000,000 row test table.

    ...

  • RE: More newbie system table help

    Heh... those are fun but I like the real-life questions that teach why or why not to do something... for example...

    1. How many internal rows will be generated by...

  • RE: More newbie system table help

    GilaMonster (9/30/2007)


    Jeff Moden (9/29/2007)


    I can't tell you the number of folks I've interviewed who have Masters or PHDs in mathematics that couldn't tell me what bit will be set by...

  • RE: can we modify system tables in SQL Server 2000?

    What if I just want to delete orphaned users in sysusers and i enabled the "allow updates" then disabled it after deleting the orphaned user?Am I doing a very risky...

  • RE: Data in Use or Data in memory

    Won't work with 2005's encryption routines. They're non-deterministic. Encrypt and compare will get you no matches.

    Didn't know that. Wow... the boy's in Redmond pretty much blew it there...

  • RE: deduping query optimization

    really old server, 512MB ram and 2 300Mhz processors (yes that's an M not a G)

    I'm thinking that you've squeezed just about all the speed you're gonna get out of...

  • RE: Limit Resources to UGLY query

    Bob Fazio (10/1/2007)


    Formatting in this new site is less than adequate.

    I absolutely agree!

    Insert of 3.3m rows.

    Best run (no index). 270 - seconds

    worst run (with index) 283...

  • RE: Limit Resources to UGLY query

    Kurt W. Zimmerman (10/1/2007)


    I've had to deal with very long running updates and processor intensive stored procedures that has been able to take my dual quad core w/ 8gb to...

  • RE: Is this workable

    ... and what about the EndDates that are NULL? 😉

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