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  • RE: Fun with Outer Joins

    thisisfutile (9/11/2012)


    Luis Cazares (9/10/2012)


    CELKO (9/9/2012)


    The correct terms are "preserved table " and "unpreserved table" ...

    Can you explain us these terms? I can't find any reference on the web.

    While I'm sure...

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  • RE: Fun with Outer Joins

    Bill Talada (9/10/2012)


    Setting STATISTICS TIME & IO ON will cause severe slowdowns. I generally write each table as a separate SELECT in the FROM clause as above because it...

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  • RE: Fun with Outer Joins

    Bill Talada (9/10/2012)


    Good article. I just want to present a style of coding that prevents this situation. I often work with queries involving a dozen tables. Notice...

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  • RE: Fun with Outer Joins

    First I would like to appologize if my choice of test data is throwing people off. The data and table layout was meant to be simple and easy to...

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  • RE: GO Part 1

    Richard Warr (9/7/2012)


    I looked at the first option and was disappointed that the second one wasn't

    Collect $200 for parsing GO.

    I wish I had thought of that when I was writing...

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  • RE: Why is my transaction log full?

    Great article Gail. Very well written and organized.

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  • RE: Working on stored procedures

    t_a_dunn (8/31/2012)


    I tested this in SQL Server, which I think you would agree is the ultimate arbiter here. I executed each statement separately. In both cases, I received "Command(s) completed...

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  • RE: Odd behaviour from computed columns in a left outer join

    Just a guess but you might consider looking at your indexes. You probably have an index that covers CE.ID, CA.CustomerID and CA.PostalCode but doesn't include CA.EnglishAddressLine1.

    I did...

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  • RE: Help determining MAX Memory settings

    I'll read that chapter this afternoon. The cluster is active/passive and both nodes are identical. So I can just set the instances for the one node and when...

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  • RE: SSIS Mapping (Audit)

    By any chance is the first row the column headings? If not any chance it can be made to? If so there is a setting on the connection...

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  • RE: Working on stored procedures

    Thanks for the clarification Hugo. Now that you describe it becomes a lot clearer. Still a very interesting effect. I'm guessing that the parser checks for the...

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  • RE: SSIS Mapping (Audit)

    Jonathan Marshall (8/27/2012)


    I have an inquiry based on how SSIS handles mappings for a certain number of columns that increase in time.

    A client has a file that started off...

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  • RE: Working on stored procedures

    Steve Jones - SSC Editor (8/27/2012)


    Kenneth.Fisher (8/27/2012)


    It seems that if your query references a missing table the SP will be allowed regardless of what else is wrong with the query.

    This...

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  • RE: Working on stored procedures

    demonfox (8/27/2012)


    nice question ;

    one more observation :

    -- t1(id int,data varchar(50)) ; t6 table doesn't exist

    create procedure usp_testing

    as

    select a.id,a.testing from t1 a

    inner join t6 b

    on b.id = a.id

    go

    this doesn't...

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  • RE: shrinking the log file

    It's not an "assumption", it was stated in the original question.

    Note G:\ is 750Gig

    Looking at the log files, the on for database ReportServerTempDB is over 400Gig in size.

    If allowed, he...

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