Forum Replies Created

Viewing 15 posts - 196 through 210 (of 279 total)

  • RE: Online Books

    a colleague used to have a personal account with these guys that he was pleased with (they offer a corporate/workgroup account according to the FAQs under "How it works")

    Safari books...

    ------------------------------------------------------------------------
    Bite-sized fiction (with added teeth) [/url]

  • RE: Creating Indexes on every Column of a table..

    Grant Fritchey (4/21/2009)


    The one thing no one seems to have mentioned is the selectivity of the data. J

    "selectivity" - that's the word, it's been driving me crazy all day trying...

    ------------------------------------------------------------------------
    Bite-sized fiction (with added teeth) [/url]

  • RE: Creating Indexes on every Column of a table..

    If it's only selects, and you have the space for more indexes, I'd certainly consider adding them.

    Of course, as with all these things: testing, testing, testing 🙂

    Edit: and of course...

    ------------------------------------------------------------------------
    Bite-sized fiction (with added teeth) [/url]

  • RE: Creating Indexes on every Column of a table..

    If you have a lot of inserts/updates/deletes happening, then you could take a hit as each index would have to be updated when these happen.

    Also you would have increased filesize...

    ------------------------------------------------------------------------
    Bite-sized fiction (with added teeth) [/url]

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Armathreaddon

    ------------------------------------------------------------------------
    Bite-sized fiction (with added teeth) [/url]

  • RE: sp_dates add this proc to your code collection

    That looks very handy - thanks!

    ------------------------------------------------------------------------
    Bite-sized fiction (with added teeth) [/url]

  • RE: Just Walk Away - Blacklisting - and Twits without Twitter

    I grew up in Greece and, back when I was a student, the mere mention that I was studying Mathematics would elicit "Oh, so you'll want to become a teacher...

    ------------------------------------------------------------------------
    Bite-sized fiction (with added teeth) [/url]

  • RE: Discrepancy between sp_depends/sysdepends and syscomments?

    Thanks very much Adi, very useful!

    ------------------------------------------------------------------------
    Bite-sized fiction (with added teeth) [/url]

  • RE: Discrepancy between sp_depends/sysdepends and syscomments?

    Clifton Collins (4/1/2009)


    When a new database is created using a script and the script objects are not in dependency order, objects will be created, but the sysdepends table is not...

    ------------------------------------------------------------------------
    Bite-sized fiction (with added teeth) [/url]

  • RE: creating new full text index and cannot get it to populate

    It can take a while to run, and as far as I've noticed, you can't run contains() queries while it's populating (ie, they return no data)

    I think if you right...

    ------------------------------------------------------------------------
    Bite-sized fiction (with added teeth) [/url]

  • RE: Discrepancy between sp_depends/sysdepends and syscomments?

    Update:

    I have now found this:

    http://www.sqlservercentral.com/scripts/Administration/62801/

    sp_depends will fail to display correct information if there have been changes in views / tables /stored procs (dropping / recreating etc).

    Seems a bit of a...

    ------------------------------------------------------------------------
    Bite-sized fiction (with added teeth) [/url]

  • RE: Are We Wasting Too Much Time Social Networking?

    I don't spend too much time at work on the SN sites, although they have made me late for work on occasion! We work flexible hours here, so it's not...

    ------------------------------------------------------------------------
    Bite-sized fiction (with added teeth) [/url]

  • RE: When you REORGANIZE a clustered index...

    Jeffrey Williams (3/27/2009)


    Once an index is disabled - the only way to enable it is to rebuild. Rebuilding an index that was disabled in an offline operation (meaning, the...

    ------------------------------------------------------------------------
    Bite-sized fiction (with added teeth) [/url]

  • RE: When you REORGANIZE a clustered index...

    Thanks very much Jeffrey

    Jeffrey Williams (3/27/2009)


    Since you are truncating and loading every time - here is what i would recommend:

    1) Disable all NC indexes

    a) Leave clustered...

    ------------------------------------------------------------------------
    Bite-sized fiction (with added teeth) [/url]

  • RE: When you REORGANIZE a clustered index...

    Grant Fritchey (3/27/2009)


    It is one of those places where your mileage will vary, so testing is necessary.

    Ordering the data helps.

    If you're using GUID's, make sure you use sequential guids and...

    ------------------------------------------------------------------------
    Bite-sized fiction (with added teeth) [/url]

Viewing 15 posts - 196 through 210 (of 279 total)