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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Brandie Tarvin (2/22/2011)


    Paul, are you out there? Are you all right? I vaguely remember that you said you were from ChristChurch, NZ, is that correct? My condolences for...

  • RE: Can I tune this?

    Brandie Tarvin (2/18/2011)


    And I forgot to try the mouse hover.

    You can also click on a plan icon (SELECT in this case) and look in the Properties window (hit F4).

    Back to...

  • RE: Can I tune this?

    Brandie Tarvin (2/17/2011)


    What is the effect of building a non-clustered index over a clustered index?

    Exactly as Lutz and Craig said: the non-clustered index is much narrower, so more many more...

  • RE: Can I tune this?

    Brandie Tarvin (2/17/2011)


    Paul,

    On your blog, you state:

    Impressively, the estimated execution cost for the original query was about 0.007; for the “Segment Top” plan, the estimated cost is about 0.006...

  • RE: An Introduction to Database Design

    Lempster (2/14/2011)


    Brilliant and funny article Paul. I wonder if Daniel Vettori really does wear wasabi lip balm?! 😛

    He does, and he buys it from Bob :laugh:

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    WayneS (1/26/2011)


    Well, Joe still has his rhetoric, but it seems to have been toned down quite a bit. Almost an attempt to be humorous about it.

    He really seems to be...

  • RE: An Introduction to Database Design

    David Portas (1/26/2011)


    There are some but not many others who have produced similar content and the same high quality as Fabian Pascal's output. 10 years after it's publication, Pascal's "Practical...

  • RE: An Introduction to Database Design

    kenambrose (1/26/2011)


    Yes I can see, based on the approach offered in your article, that you would consider such commitment to Codd's work "zealotry" and dismiss it as entertainment...

    No you are...

  • RE: An Introduction to Database Design

    kenambrose (1/25/2011)


    A few typo ridden, before the morning commute emails, don't come near the time it takes to write a high quality tutorial for beginning DB design. I expect...

  • RE: An Introduction to Database Design

    I have made a number of small changes to the published text based on comments received so far. Thanks to everyone for their opinions and insights.

  • RE: An Introduction to Database Design

    Ken,

    The fact is that the surrogate key + enforced unique natural key idea just would not fit nicely within the flow of the story, while keeping the article to a...

  • RE: An Introduction to Database Design

    Thanks everyone for the comments, both here and by email.

    At the risk of stating the painfully obvious, of course the design has limitations, and yes in some important respects the...

  • RE: Creating a comma-separated list (SQL Spackle)

    Hey Wayne,

    The (./text())[1] modification (and variations) has been around for a very long time. I included in the CSV demo in part 2 of my APPLY article in April...

  • RE: Memroy Issue

    Roy Ernest (1/14/2011)


    Here I will beg to differ from you. You do not need to explicitly set the trace flag 834 to enable large Page Extensions. If your are using...

  • RE: Memroy Issue

    Just noticed the title of this thread is memROY issues! :laugh:

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