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  • RE: Cost For Implicit Conversion of Datetime to/from Smalldatetime?

    Hi Grant-- thanks for the quick reply. (I think you meant "Unfortunately your tests are NOT quite fair")

    Point taken regarding indexing. Let me ask a smaller question: The query plan...

  • RE: Returning the Top X row for each group

    ...what about a tie?

    INSERT INTO #Runners SELECT 9,10,20

  • RE: Daylight Savings Time

    My tlogs back up every 30 minutes at :00 and :30. Somehow my 2am TRN got deleted. As a result my 3:30am restore on another server failed when it tried...

  • RE: ALERT / NOTIFICATION on triggers

    Steve Jones - SSC Editor (10/7/2010)


    If the trigger fails, you will not likely be able to send a message since it will roll back. Potentially you could send mail, but...

  • RE: Date Calendar

    Hi Sean,

    I love the script! Did these get added?

    ...and for my little (very little) contribution, I would add an ISO date field (e.g., 20091006)

    convert(varchar(10), getdate(), 112)

    Why varchar(10) and not char(8)?...

  • RE: Loop, Cursor or both?

    Ah I see how it works now! I was under the assumption that even if that Column existed in the FileInfo table and I was pulling from it that it...

  • RE: Service Broker/Event Notification Problem; Event Notification stopping unexpectedly

    A little more fiddling and I've got the (one-line) fix:

    Changed

    CREATE EVENT NOTIFICATION notify_DdlDbEvents ON [highlight]DATABASE[/highlight] WITH fan_in FOR DDL_DATABASE_LEVEL_EVENTS TO SERVICE 'svcDdlDbEvents', 'current database';

    To

    CREATE EVENT NOTIFICATION notify_DdlDbEvents ON [highlight]SERVER[/highlight]...

  • RE: Converting to DateTime

    I quickly scanned the thread so I may be missing some details (and I've GOTTA get outta here) but you don't even really need to convert the 2 "seconds since...

  • RE: ORM Mapping

    Phil Factor (3/31/2010)


    Like Circular Saws, ORMs are great tools in the right hands, Like circular saws, the consequences of using them wrongly are difficult to put right.

    In other words,...

  • RE: Improve Searches

    Jeff Moden (3/10/2010)


    ...A word of caution on DTA...Although it may give you an index to make your SELECTs lightning fast, that same index can eat the face off your database...

  • RE: E K M

    Oleg Netchaev (3/12/2010)


    ...Imagine someone posting RAID is an acronym for...

    ...Surely you mean "Roach And Insect Deterrent"[/url] ...?

  • RE: How to change the Subject Text returned by Jobs/MP/DBMail?

    I may be misinterpreting your issue, but instead of using a "Notify Operator Task" use an "Execute TSQL Task" in your maintenance plan. The TSQL code to run would be...

  • RE: Best code for generating sequence numbers

    Paul White (3/2/2010)


    mstjean (3/2/2010)


    Are you saying it's possible for the following statement to insert non-sequential values for the identity:

    INSERT INTO TableWithIdentity SELECT TOP 100 * FROM SomeTable

    (YES...) Non-sequential/non-contiguous...The cause, by...

  • RE: Today's Random Word!

    dialog, dualogue, diatribe,

    dissention, declamation,

    double talk, double talk

    - Belew, Bruford, Fripp, Levin

  • RE: Best code for generating sequence numbers

    ...uhoh...

    Jeff Moden (3/1/2010)


    ...It would be diffcult to reserve a range of ID's with because IDENTITIES are not guaranteed to be sequential if other people are also inserting into the table.

    Are...

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