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  • RE: Get month names ordered using recursion

    andrew.diniz (3/13/2012)


    Apart from rCTE's scaling linearly, this statement is not correct. Read Jeff's article. A table, however large or small, will always perform many times faster than a rCTE.

    That's simply...

  • RE: Get month names ordered using recursion

    andrew.diniz (3/13/2012)


    Apart from rCTE's scaling linearly, this statement is not correct. Read Jeff's article. A table, however large or small, will always perform many times faster than a rCTE.

    That's simply...

  • RE: Get month names ordered using recursion

    Koen Verbeeck (3/13/2012)


    alfredoapereira (3/13/2012)


    Hi you all.

    Well, I prefer to use a tally table. more clean.

    I prefer to use a calendar table, even more clean 😉

    I use a Tally table to...

  • RE: Get month names ordered using recursion

    Krtyknm (3/13/2012)


    Nice thoughts and suggestions!! But My idea is to keep the SQL script very simple, instead of creating the monthname statically we can go with the dynamic way.

    Thanks,

    Karthik

    Recursive CTE...

  • RE: BETWEEN

    rmechaber (3/5/2012)


    This was a terribly difficult question: I spent 10 minutes looking for the syntax error, catch, gotcha, trip-up, etc., only to submit the straightforward, correct answer.:-D

    Rich

    Same thing here... I...

  • RE: Not In

    I'm with Nils,

    This is everything to do with NULL since IN/NOT IN is just translated into a pile of equivalence tests or not equivalence tests.

    != NULL

    using the same query...

  • RE: Whats the difference between jobs and maintenance plan??

    For Backups I tend to use maintenance plans.

    For Index and Statistics maintenance, I tend to use scripts. Mostly because Microsoft's Index Maintenance takss don't take into account the level...

  • RE: Importance of BI Tool in respect ot DBA role.

    It's always good to broaden your horizons.

    As a DBA/BI DW Architect/ETL Developer I can say I keep busy.

    If you go BI, pick one tool from the top 3...

  • RE: SQL Server Agent Roles

    Nice and easy.... not used to this.

    Scared that 25% got it wrong.

  • RE: Working with report models and query parameters

    Do you mean in the filter itself? Won't that change how it functions when I'm not testing it?

    Right now if I click on the filter and edit the formula...

  • RE: Working with report models and query parameters

    Having no luck with that.

    Tried

    'Bill Smith;John Doe'

    "Bill Smith;John Doe"

    "Bill Smith,John Doe"

    'Bill Smith,John Doe'

    Each returns nothing when I run the query, but if I just specify either Bill Smith or...

  • RE: Model Database

    RTM... interesting... 🙂

    Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 (RTM) - 10.50.1617.0 (X64)

    Apr 22 2011 19:23:43 Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation

    Developer Edition (64-bit) on Windows NT...

  • RE: Model Database

    tilew-948340 (2/22/2012)


    dawryn (2/22/2012)


    Is there a correct answer at all :hehe:

    In theory you can't set or maybe you can, depends on which article you read.

    In practice you can set and new...

  • RE: Database Restore

    GilaMonster (2/21/2012)


    SqlMel (2/21/2012)


    Easy question. Thanks!

    It's now down to 2% 🙂

    Nils Gustav Stråbø (2/21/2012)


    Good and easy question. Thanks.

    I'm surprised that 21% believes that you can do a point in time restore...

  • RE: Working on a query to get info out of RS

    One day I will understand XML.... and then it will change.

    Anyways, a developer and I came up with this. I will never get how I can change namespaces to...

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