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  • RE: How to Remove Fragmantaion on INDEX?

    Fill factors are not an exact science. But given the situation you describe, I would start with 80 and see how it goes.

  • RE: How to Remove Fragmantaion on INDEX?

    Bottom line: No, there is no need to worry.

    But... if you are experiencing performance issues accessing data from this table, then you should be concerned. But you don't...

  • RE: How to Remove Fragmantaion on INDEX?

    If you're not experiencing slowdowns when accessing a table, I wouldn't worry about fragmentation percentages too much. Use it when you're investigating performance issues. Don't chase the number...

  • RE: How to Remove Fragmantaion on INDEX?

    If the index is on a small table, some amount of fragmentation can't be avoided because of the storage of pages in extants. If it's a large table, something...

  • RE: Small Money, Money, Float - what's the best

    Where apportionment is required divide for all except the final installment and then correct for the rounding errors in the final one.

    I don't understand what this means. Please clarify.

  • RE: Star Schema

    Go directly to the bookstore

    or order it from Amazon. In any case, he's right. You will just have to take the time to dig in and learn....

  • RE: Small Money, Money, Float - what's the best

    FLOAT and REAL are also illegal under EU and GAAP rules because they have rounding errors.

    What's your recommendation then?

  • RE: Small Money, Money, Float - what's the best

    You are not going to be dividing the sales totals when creating an invoice

    But average sales per invoice would be normal. It may be because I work almost exclusively...

  • RE: Small Money, Money, Float - what's the best

    When you have to perform division it will round

    Dividing isn't limited to interest though. Calculating averages will also do this. I think I'll stick with four decimals...

  • RE: Small Money, Money, Float - what's the best

    If you're going to use the decimal data type, you should probably go to 4 decimal places. There is rounding that needs to take place behind the scenes. ...

  • RE: Star Schema

    Now you have two recommendations to get a copy of that book.

  • RE: Star Schema

    Yes, but couldn't a fact table have a surrogate with a secondary composite key that is declared unique ?

    Absolutely. Some would say that's overkill since there are many who...

  • RE: Star Schema

    OLAP Data modeling is a complicated topic. Fact tables need a primary key. I have never used a composite key, but I guess this is not an error. Unlike...

  • RE: Full backup and remove old log backups

    advocate keeping all backups (full, diff, tlog) for at least a month

    In too many cases the lose of the most current data for the last month would be catastrophic.

  • RE: Full backup and remove old log backups

    As you have 2 days of log backups. If you restore latest full backup, do you apply log by looking at create date time or is there some auto way...

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