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  • RE: Execution Plan Help. Enormous Increase in row count in plan

    thomashohner (9/30/2016)


    WOW, you have to be joking. 14 seconds row count on the money. Attached is the execution plan.

    Thank you both so very much. Holy molly :-D:-D

    Great, glad it...

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  • RE: Execution Plan Help. Enormous Increase in row count in plan

    Try this:

    ...

    Ethnicity,

    MaritalStatus,

    ...

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  • RE: Intentional Normalization Violation

    In this case, I think it's ok to add the current status to the Orders table, using an efficient, well-written trigger to maintain the status.

    However, the lookup of the current...

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  • RE: Execution Plan Help. Enormous Increase in row count in plan

    I can't see any of the indexes, but perhaps you can combine the Lists lookups as below.

    Also, you'll probably get best performance by clustering the Lists table by ( Databasekey,...

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  • RE: Changing mdf files size

    ramana3327 (9/30/2016)


    Will there any performance impact by reducing the mdf file size?

    Probably not, if the space was never used.

    The way to try to shrink with no fragmentation is to use...

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  • RE: Loading a local temp table taking more than 24 hours

    Several things to consider here. I'll number them so that everyone can comment on them more easily:

    1) Make sure IFI is on (just in case).

    2) Pre-allocate additional space in...

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  • RE: how can I use a sproc @param as column alias?

    Sample dynamic SQL:

    DECLARE @MySprocParam VARCHAR(50) = 'TestAlias'

    EXEC('SELECT ''ASDF'' AS [' + @MySprocParam + ']')

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  • RE: Backup database only if changes happen

    Eric M Russell (9/28/2016)


    ScottPletcher (9/28/2016)


    You'd still need to keep at least the history from the previous check, because an index/table could be dropped, which would remove it from the system...

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  • RE: Backup database only if changes happen

    You'd still need to keep at least the history from the previous check, because an index/table could be dropped, which would remove it from the system views.

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  • RE: Select top ..., with extra conditions

    Option (1) should be fine as long as the trigger is efficiently written and there is an index to support the trigger's query. For example, if the table is...

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  • RE: Help with sorting data from two tables

    USE HandsOnOne;

    SELECT c.CustomerName, a.City, a.State

    FROM Customer c

    INNER JOIN Address a

    ON a.AddressID = c.CustomerAddressID

    ORDER BY a.ZipCode ASC, c.CustomerName ASC;

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  • RE: Test Function for Performance Statistics

    You could populate a table with the test values you want to us, then process from it in a loop or by using GO <#_of_test_runs>, which I used below just...

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  • RE: Backup database only if changes happen

    The irony is it might be more overhead to check for the updates than to just do the log transfers.

    In theory you might (should?) be able to use sys.dm_db_index_operational_stats to...

    SQL DBA,SQL Server MVP(07, 08, 09) "It's a dog-eat-dog world, and I'm wearing Milk-Bone underwear." "Norm", on "Cheers". Also from "Cheers", from "Carla": "You need to know 3 things about Tortelli men: Tortelli men draw women like flies; Tortelli men treat women like flies; Tortelli men's brains are in their flies".

  • RE: Searching for a value across all columns of a single table

    I suggest using a CASE technique to add the desired matches because that method gives you great flexibility on specifically what values to match. The code is somewhat longer,...

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  • RE: How to Upgrade T-SQL Skills

    Lynn Pettis (9/27/2016)


    ScottPletcher (9/27/2016)


    Talib123 (9/27/2016)

    I'm a production DBA

    ... how do I get my T-sql skills to a developer\Report writer level.

    So you want to go from DBA-level SQL to developer-level SQL:

    Destroy...

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