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  • RE: Unique Indexes Are Code; Non-Unique Indexes Are Data

    RichB (5/6/2016)


    What utter flamebait.

    Congratulations.

    As to people who are saying it's the DBA's job to index - Developers can't possibly be expected to grasp the subtleties... hogwash.

    No, it's not....

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  • RE: Need some help transposing a query

    Select mcr.*

    FROM dbo.G_MASTER_CODING_RESULTS AS mcr WITH (NOLOCK)

    left join (

    SELECT

    MCRNUS.MASTER_CODING_RESULTS_ID

    FROM G_MASTER_CODING_RESULTS AS MCRNUS With (NOLOCK)

    WHERE...

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  • RE: efficient Querying - NOT EXISTS

    pietlinden (5/4/2016)


    You could... but I'd read this first:

    http://sqlinthewild.co.za/index.php/2009/08/17/exists-vs-in/

    I would have sworn that EXISTS stops as soon as a True/False changes, while an IN reads the whole table. So I would...

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  • RE: master, model, msdb

    cookiemonstagt (5/3/2016)


    So the data is saved on shared file and config locally .?

    I coded the backups to go to c:, which is local drive for that node only,...

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  • RE: master, model, msdb

    Lynn Pettis (5/3/2016)


    ScottPletcher (5/3/2016)


    You can backup the dbs using the commands below from within SSMS or other appropriate SQL utility. Since someone has gone to the trouble to cluster...

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  • RE: master, model, msdb

    cookiemonstagt (5/3/2016)


    Oh my

    .. thanks and one last question if the db is shared each node has these 3 files to be able only to run the...

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  • RE: efficient Querying - NOT EXISTS

    You need to create an index on ID in T2, T3, T4, T5 and T6.

    You should check the tables in the order of most likely to EXIST first, so that...

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  • RE: master, model, msdb

    You can backup the dbs using the commands below from within SSMS or other appropriate SQL utility. Since someone has gone to the trouble to cluster the SQL instance,...

    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: Looking For A Way to Check Data Spread Across Multiple Records; Looping Most Likely Involved

    Using HAVING eliminates a pass of the table and makes it easier to specify different conditions.

    SELECT mt.*

    FROM@myTable mt

    INNER JOIN (

    SELECT ColumnA

    FROM @myTable

    ...

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  • RE: SQL version

    --pull first four digits in a row that start with 2, should be year.

    SELECT SUBSTRING(@@VERSION, PATINDEX('%2[0-9][0-9][0-9]%', @@VERSION), 4)

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  • RE: Having multiple DML triggers on same table

    As always with triggers, the biggest issue is to make the sure the triggers are coded properly, i.e. they deal with sets and not a row at a time, and...

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  • RE: Need guidance...

    First, look into implementing snapshot isolation (SI) for the underlying db(s). If nothing else, if will reduce contention issues while you tune the indexes. Be sure to adjust...

    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: Execution plan

    If "MyOtherTable" has an index on O.ID, add "IsPurged" to the key of that index.

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  • RE: Using reserved words as column names

    I can't imagine any problem with a column named "number", since number is not a reserved word in SQL Server anyway.

    I must admit, I don't generally worry too much about...

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  • RE: strange problem with varchar(8000) getting cut at 4000 characters

    It sounds like:

    at least one nvarchar is working its way into some concatenation or other string operation, forcing the string to become nvarchar, and thus a max of 4000 bytes.

    or...

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