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  • RE: How to get rowid in sql server 2005

    tom.newman 88696 (3/31/2010)


    I see what your saying and it makes sense.... I will proceed with the reading!! thanks

    No worries. If you come across anything that puzzles you, post something...

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Chris Morris-439714 (3/31/2010)


    Paul White NZ (3/31/2010)


    HR read your posts???

    SSC HR...

    Really? Wow! I feel decidedly left out now 🙁

    You must have used some really, er, enthusiastic language.

    You are a...

  • RE: An interesting thing about isnull

    James Lean (3/31/2010)


    That would seem to be a very specific case, I wouldn't have thought it was a good reason to make a general case for using COALESCE over ISNULL....

  • RE: An interesting thing about isnull

    Hugo Kornelis (3/31/2010)


    So if any of the arguments is a subquery, the implementation if COALESCE((subquery), ...) becomes CASE WHEN (subquery) IS NOT NULL THEN (subquery) ... ELSE NULL END.

    That reminds...

  • RE: Memory Available Bytes Counter

    Kwisatz78 (3/31/2010)


    Its SQL 2005 Enterprise 64bit, and there a various clients running on the machine as well as SQL.

    Ok, so maybe start off conservatively with a max server memory setting...

  • RE: Counting spaces with datalength

    Tom.Thomson (3/31/2010)


    Paul White NZ (3/30/2010)


    Not my lucky day.

    That sounds as if you got it wrong. I can't resist asking which error did you make:

    a) 11 is an even number;...

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Chris Morris-439714 (3/31/2010)


    Thing is, the OP's manner was chillingly similar to a guy who I was unfortunate enough to have worked with some years ago, on a migration contract. He'd...

  • RE: How to get rowid in sql server 2005

    tom.newman 88696 (3/31/2010)


    ...joins create virtual tables which is a combination of both tables, then filtered down.

    Only logically. Can you imagine how slow queries against large tables would be if...

  • RE: Curiouse View to create for SQLServer 2005

    matt32 (3/31/2010)


    for my needs it is a great opportunity to create a view from this sql

    WITH mycte AS (SELECT cast ('2007-01-01' AS DATETIME) DateValue UNION ALL SELECT DateValue + 1...

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Chris Morris-439714 (3/31/2010)


    Ooh don't...one of those really ticked me off a few weeks ago :blush:

    Grates on me like fingernails on a blackboard. Did you vent on-thread? Link please!

    Never...

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Jack Corbett (3/30/2010)


    Paul White NZ (3/30/2010)


    CirquedeSQLeil (3/30/2010)


    That to me is akin to calling Paul

    Paulster

    Never do that again. I will find you. :w00t:

    A little intense there hey, Paulie? 😀

    Don't...

  • RE: What is the RAM ramification of CTE?

    Are you planning to do something that requires loading one million rows into a temporary object or one kind or another?

    You should probably forget about the distinction between RAM and...

  • RE: What is the RAM ramification of CTE?

    A (non-recursive) CTE is exactly equivalent to a derived table in the FROM clause - it is not a 'real' table.

    Perhaps an example will help. The following two queries...

  • RE: Resource Governor

    Raju The Leader (3/31/2010)


    SQL Server 2008 introduces a new feature called Resource Governor which enables Database Administrators to manage SQL Server workload and critical system resource consumption. Resource Governor enables...

  • RE: TRUNCATE

    vk-kirov (3/31/2010)


    Nice find, thank you. So, if it barks like a dog, it behaves like a dog, what is it?...

    It is a duck, with some arguably dog-like features 😛

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