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The NULLs for EACH ROW are actually stored in the Row Header of EACH ROW and, as of 2012, is always stored for every column even if the column is...
--Jeff Moden
Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.
April 30, 2019 at 9:15 pm
If you work for an organization that counts lines code as a metric for developer productivity, then RedGate's "SQL Prompt" extension for SSMS is a great investment. A poorly...
--Jeff Moden
Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.
April 30, 2019 at 1:45 pm
To be honest, there's something wrong with such people's mentality. As a good online friend of mine once said, "It's probably 'cuz their mommas didn't know how to cook with...
--Jeff Moden
Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.
April 30, 2019 at 1:38 pm
I agree with the others about using the "Divide'n'Conquer" method. The only thing is that if the output of these views is massive, you could end up having some problems...
--Jeff Moden
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April 30, 2019 at 1:27 pm
Thanks! I was able to solve this by taking database offline then immediately bringing it back online.
This sounds like the storage (SAN/mountpoint?) where the LOG file was...
--Jeff Moden
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April 30, 2019 at 1:07 pm
Thanks. I've got to find some old code I wrote for fixing street addresses that did (IIRC) 400 replacements. I'll look for it after work tonight.
--Jeff Moden
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April 29, 2019 at 11:11 pm
I think the reason why you've gotten no help is because you've not provided any readily consumable data. Please see the link in my signature below for one way to...
--Jeff Moden
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April 29, 2019 at 10:53 pm
I've used this and it certainly wasn't overkill. The client had a lot of resources on the SQL Server, but the main database was highly transactional, and performed very...
--Jeff Moden
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April 29, 2019 at 10:46 pm
So how did you fix the issue? And when did the issue occur? After a restart or what?
--Jeff Moden
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April 29, 2019 at 10:39 pm
How many possible rows are going to be in the Search/Replace values table?
--Jeff Moden
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April 29, 2019 at 10:36 pm
Thom A, I could imagine your suggestion might result in better performance if large offsets are added (or subtracted) from a date. However the function was designed for an...
--Jeff Moden
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April 29, 2019 at 10:31 pm
Thanks for your suggestions and sorry about delay of reply - have been out of office for a couple of days/ Unfortunately, as good as they are, the suggestions...
--Jeff Moden
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April 29, 2019 at 1:28 pm
All, Thanks for your responses!
Jeff, if I'm understanding your comment correctly, I'm not sure there's a way to do that...
https://dba.stackexchange.com/questions/5468/can-i-enable-sqlcmd-mode-from-inside-a-script Mike
I was pretty sure that was true but you...
--Jeff Moden
Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.
April 28, 2019 at 11:15 pm

Heh... I found my pre-migration avatar on this site. It's not that it didn't "come" over. It's that it's an animated .GIF and the avatar on this site...
--Jeff Moden
Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.
April 27, 2019 at 4:45 am
What I'd like to know is how to enable the functionality of the SQLCMD mode (not the other SQLCmd as in .exe) functionality in a stored procedure.
--Jeff Moden
Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.
April 26, 2019 at 11:19 pm
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