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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    GilaMonster (8/22/2012)


    No, I meant the one you're posting in. Order by in an insert.

    Oh right. I wonder what he'll come up with next on that one.

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    GilaMonster (8/22/2012)


    Yes, same one, and it's the thread with Paul involved.

    "But it's not the only target people could chase with the statement, would you agree?"

    Only involved by blog proxy, so...

  • RE: INSERT INTO Issue in SQL 2012

    Sergiy (8/21/2012)


    The plans are identical for "Query 2" and "Query 3" in SQL 2008 as well.

    No they're not. On SQL Server 2005, SQL Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008...

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    dwain.c (8/21/2012)


    Can you (or someone) expound on what you mean by "concurrency effects?"

    I have encountered a number of very high read workload OLTP systems (web sites) where any changes to...

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    dwain.c (8/21/2012)


    Rest assured that if I ever encounter a case where a CURSOR out-performs a set based solution, I'll happily use it. In this case, I believe a rewrite...

  • RE: INSERT INTO Issue in SQL 2012

    Sergiy (8/20/2012)


    Order by actually guarantees the order of records as they are inserted into a table.

    Not correct. There was a missed optimization pre-2012 which meant that a unnecessary sort...

  • RE: NULL

    It drives me nuts to see column definitions without a NULL or NOT NULL constraint.

  • RE: Table Variable

    codebyo (8/17/2012)


    I wonder what you guys use the most: temp tables or table variables in terms of performance.

    It depends on the context. Table variables can have significant performance advantages...

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    GilaMonster (8/10/2012)


    Yes, it went too far. That was doing exactly what we complain about Celko doing - attacking the person not the idea.

    +1

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Grant Fritchey (8/3/2012)


    don't quote me

    My rebellious side could not resist.

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Jan Van der Eecken (8/2/2012)


    Talking rowing, did anyone watch South Africa clinching the Gold Medal in the lightweight fours today?

    I did yes! Very impressive.

    The whole office was watching and...

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Fal (8/2/2012)


    Well, being a Kiwi he does live in the land of Mordor. 😛

    True; see the picture below of two hobbits* winning our first gold medal in the rowing...

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    SQLRNNR (7/27/2012)


    I have seen the same sort of requirement. We opted for the TVP method that was mentioned at the tail of the article since it was an application...

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    capn.hector (7/27/2012)


    well now in the morning im even more embarrassed at the mistake i made.

    It was only a small error; I wouldn't dwell too much on it. Focus on...

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    David Burrows (7/27/2012)


    GSquared (7/27/2012)


    Generate and join on Checksum/Hashbytes is probably your best bet.

    I thought you had to test equality of the columns as well, as checksum values may not be...

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