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  • Reply To: Changing Hardware

    Given that most medium to large companies predominantly use HP... you don't have much of a choice.

    My antique home PC is an AMD Athalon 3400 and it has served me...

  • Reply To: DR restore test issue

    Hi prettsons

    that's cool info for anyone facing the same issue. I did all of those things but at checkdb stage I got the error message I mentioned, as I posted..

    in...

  • Reply To: DR restore test issue

    happy to. Give me a day or 2 and it will be in your inbox ready for you to edit. 🙂

     

  • Reply To: DR restore test issue

    yeah... that was my first approach

    It actually turns out that it was a memory issue. (it was quite a big database, so it took quite a while to go through...

  • Reply To: DR restore test issue

    just a normal backup database->restore database scenario

    I'm going to try dropping the allocated memory on the target server and see if the issue is "not enough free memory to create...

  • Reply To: Slower is Faster

    David.Poole wrote:

      The theory of constraints says that there is ONE key constraint at any one time.  If your work addresses this constraint then another will emerge and it won't...

  • Reply To: Slower is Faster

    David Burrows wrote:

    Jeff Moden wrote:

    It worked out well because, when people ask me why their code had performance issues, I could tell them, "Well, if you had used the fn Tally function...

  • Reply To: Slower is Faster

    Jeff Moden wrote:

    MVDBA (Mike Vessey) wrote:

    while it's slightly off topic, I worked with a  team that mixed the V model (kinda like waterfall) and agile.. it had an unfortunate nickname of "vagile"

    ...

  • Reply To: Slower is Faster

    Lol

    I work for a company that was founded in 1851.  our practices are built on fax machines. (seriously, at one point I dreamt that our DR scenario revolved around faxing...

  • Reply To: Slower is Faster

    while it's slightly off topic,

    I worked with a  team that mixed the V model (kinda like waterfall) and agile.. it had an unfortunate nickname of "vagile"

    but I do agree with...

  • Reply To: Slower is Faster

    Herb (and anyone interested) - I highly recommend reading a book called "the phoenix project"

    it details the story of and IT engineer in an engineering company, trying to get things...

  • Reply To: only seeking row 1 but getting row 2 also

    without seeing the table structure or the data it is returning we will struggle to help

    have you thought about using Row_number() over (partition by … order by …) as rn

    add...

  • Reply To: Database with thousand of tables and no foreign keys.

    next you'll be telling us Santa Clause and unicorns don't exist

  • Reply To: The Worst Comments

    Phil Parkin wrote:

    MVDBA (Mike Vessey) wrote:

    I hate "where 1=0" - I ..use  "where @debugmode=1" and pass that in as a parameter. the number of times one of my devs has hardcoded "where...

  • Reply To: Is there any problem for using multiple columns in clustered index

    you could keep your existing clustered index on the publisher.

    then set the article properties to not copy indexes. then create a post snapshot script that creates the clustered index to...

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