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  • RE: Clustered index, mandatory or optional?!

    PiMané (10/8/2012)


    But CustomerCode is not sequential and can generate a lot of fragmentation on the clustered index.

    That might be OK. If you set your fill factor appropriately you can fend...

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  • RE: Clustered index, mandatory or optional?!

    PiMané (10/8/2012)


    opc.three (10/8/2012)


    How wide is that customerCode and is that an oft-used column to increase selectivity?

    Pardon my ignorance, not used to some technical terms in English, but what do...

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  • RE: SQL Server 2008 import wizard - importing excel xls workbook

    The attachment didn't appear to make it. Did you click the "Upload Attachments" button after choosing your file(s)?

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  • RE: Splitting backups at specified size

    So the question really is:

    How do I estimate the size of my FULL backups so I can predict when I should add another backup device? :Whistling:

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  • RE: What would be the major concerns for running WCF services and xp_cmdshell on SQL Server?

    arussell_10 (10/5/2012)


    All,

    The development group at my new company is using a WCF service running on the SQL Server to call a stored procedure that executes xp_cmdshell to call an SSIS...

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  • RE: Clustered index, mandatory or optional?!

    PiMané (10/6/2012)


    Hi,

    I'm reviewing our database tables and found some "bad" practices like Clustered index with Uniqueidentifier columns using NewId - support for SQL2005 is mandatory.

    I was woundering, and already have...

    There are no special teachers of virtue, because virtue is taught by the whole community.
    --Plato

  • RE: Help reading Deadlock graph

    No, it won't hurt a thing to disable 1204.

    Do you know how they were enabled? If not then check the startup options of the instance. If they were enabled using...

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  • RE: CHECK CONSTRAINT vs. TRIGGER

    antonio.collins (10/8/2012)


    a trigger can be written so it is only fired if some column(s) of interest are set/modified.

    Not entirely true. A trigger fires for every qualifying DML action. For INSERT...

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  • RE: CHECK CONSTRAINT vs. TRIGGER

    GSquared (10/8/2012)


    The better solution would be rebuild the database and normalize it standardly.

    +1

    You do have a path to refactor the database and not change a line of VB6 code. It...

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  • RE: Splitting backups at specified size

    LOG, FULL or DIFF?

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  • RE: ASP.NET App and SQL Server identity

    This article is a good primer on the different options and still applies to current versions of .NET:

    How to implement impersonation in an ASP.NET application

    I think you're asking for the...

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  • RE: SQL Server 2008 import wizard - importing excel xls workbook

    Hit Reply to this post and then scroll down, look for the Edit Attachments button.

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  • RE: SQL 2005 Import\Export Wizard package save location

    You posted in a 2008 forum but it looks like from the title of your post you're on 2005.

    Here is a link on how to connect to a SQL 2005...

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  • RE: Interesting Sql protocol issue around calling stored procedure with select and update

    blakmk (10/8/2012)


    thanks opc.three. yes when you kill it definatly invokes the rollback mechanism. What im talking about is does the client receiving ALL of the data, depend on the commit...

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  • RE: Interesting Sql protocol issue around calling stored procedure with select and update

    My gut says no, the transaction would not be committed until the OUTPUT clause completed being consumed by the caller. It is easy enough to test...

    -- setup the environment

    USE AdventureWorks2008R2

    CREATE...

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