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  • RE: How Long Before You Upgrade?

    We have one SQL 2005 server left.  We can't upgrade it yet because it is the last version with the compatibility required by an old application.  The application is being...

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  • RE: What is the impact of setting SET ANSI_WARNINGS OFF?

    Please, not another null or non-null debate. SQL Server has a clear implementation of NULL. The flat-nullers should just get over it. Far more important are domain...

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  • RE: What is the impact of setting SET ANSI_WARNINGS OFF?

    ebouras (8/23/2016)


    N_Muller (8/23/2016)


    If you have temp tables (#tables) with indexes in a stored procedure where ansi warnings are turned off for aggregation of null values, the procedure fails. Regardless...

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  • RE: What is the impact of setting SET ANSI_WARNINGS OFF?

    If you don't like the warning, it's often easy to update the query to explicitly replace the default behavior. To be honest, I have used this setting when I...

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  • RE: Nasty Fast PERCENT_RANK

    Thanks. I've been collecting performance counters on several servers. The easy calculations like average, extreme, and deviation tend to wash out performance details. I want to get...

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  • RE: The Database Transaction Unit (DTU) Decoded

    PS Microsoft announced some good news the day before April 1st: Xamarin will be free for users of Visual Studio. It was not a joke. Now back to...

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  • RE: The Database Transaction Unit (DTU) Decoded

    One day a year, the joke is on them. The rest of the year, it is on us. When I saw SchrΓΆdinger's equation, I thought that Microsoft was...

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  • RE: Why every SQL Server installation should be a cluster

    We had a SQL Server failover cluster for many years because we "wanted" it to be available at all times. We have many servers and the cluster turned out...

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  • RE: Fixing Maintenance Plan Error code 0x534

    Thanks. I tried to use maintenance plans sometime around SQL 2005. I remember writing T-SQL to manually edit the XML for a plan so that it could be...

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  • RE: Database Design Follies: NULL vs. NOT NULL

    Zidar (3/11/2016)


    BTW, solving 1X = 2X has X = 0 as a solution. There is no contradiction as it's also a solution of the original degenerate equation which is 0=0...

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  • RE: Database Design Follies: NULL vs. NOT NULL

    roger.plowman (3/11/2016)


    rstone (3/10/2016)


    In the logical design, the business logic might require handling missing data and reasons for missing data. Using tokens -2, -1 , 0, etc. is one way of...

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  • RE: Database Design Follies: NULL vs. NOT NULL

    ZZartin (3/10/2016)


    kenambrose (3/10/2016)


    that question implies that you would otherwise have ~10000 "nullable" columns in your design?

    which would be nonsense design under any stretch of the imagination, wouldn't it?

    If a solution...

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  • RE: Database Design Follies: NULL vs. NOT NULL

    BTW, solving 1X = 2X has X = 0 as a solution. There is no contradiction as it's also a solution of the original degenerate equation which is 0=0...

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  • RE: Database Design Follies: NULL vs. NOT NULL

    kenambrose (3/10/2016)


    why do the same flawed arguments keep popping up?

    [[If you deal with a report and want all columns via left joins, then there will be nulls. ]]

    We don't know...

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  • RE: Database Design Follies: NULL vs. NOT NULL

    In the logical design, the business logic might require handling missing data and reasons for missing data. Using tokens -2, -1 , 0, etc. is one way of handling nLvl...

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