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  • RE: How do I Avoid Deadlocks?

    You could also consider using an A/B table approach. That is, the nightly load goes into a different table name. When the load process is complete, either the...

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  • RE: which algorithm is used in my query?

    Most likely a LOOP join will be used. That is not guaranteed, of course, but it is likely.

    If you want to be sure what join algorithm will be used,...

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  • RE: SQL server stops communicating

    Look at the tempdb log file size and growth amount, particularly if it is a % (which you should change to a fixed amount: never use %, no matter what...

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  • RE: Calendar Table Function

    Alan.B (3/31/2016)

    1. Nothing I posted uses recursion. Look again.

    2. People should put unique nonclustered indexes on their dim_date or calendar but dont. It's not like it gets modified all...

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  • RE: About index - What is the reason.

    We don't really know why MS chose to make the PK by default also the clustering index.

    Personally I think it was more about making it "easy to use" so it...

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  • RE: Where Column IN (x,y,z) Better Than Where In (Select from table)

    You should definitely cluster the temp table on the key column as well. It can't hurt, but it can help under certain conditions.

    SELECT TOP (0) D.X INTO #tmp FROM...

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  • RE: About index - What is the reason.

    Luis Cazares (3/31/2016)


    and the PK needs an index to work correctly

    Hmm, not sure what you mean there. There's no problem at all explicitly creating a PK as nonclustered, even...

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  • RE: Understanding Isolation Levels

    souLTower (3/30/2016)


    If I have a data table containing data for 3 items (say people), and I know that no one is modifying data for person 1, and I can reasonably...

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  • RE: About index - What is the reason.

    Simply because Microsoft chose to assume that a PK would also automatically be the clustering key (if one didn't already exist, of course). Other dbms's don't make that assumption,...

    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: Calendar Table Function

    Alan.B (3/30/2016)


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    ScottPletcher (3/30/2016)


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    Alan.B (3/29/2016)

    Lastly, ditto the last Thursday of the month:

    SET STATISTICS IO ON;

    PRINT 'Old way:';

    SELECT DISTINCT MAX([Date]) OVER (PARTITION BY [Year],[MonthName],[WeekdayName]) AS [Date]

    FROM ...

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  • RE: Calendar Table Function

    Alan.B (3/30/2016)


    ScottPletcher (3/30/2016)


    Alan.B (3/29/2016)

    Lastly, ditto the last Thursday of the month:

    SET STATISTICS IO ON;

    PRINT 'Old way:';

    SELECT DISTINCT MAX([Date]) OVER (PARTITION BY [Year],[MonthName],[WeekdayName]) AS [Date]

    FROM dbo.itvf_CALENDAR('01/01/2014','12/31/2014')

    WHERE ...

    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: Calendar Table Function

    Alan.B (3/29/2016)

    Lastly, ditto the last Thursday of the month:

    SET STATISTICS IO ON;

    PRINT 'Old way:';

    SELECT DISTINCT MAX([Date]) OVER (PARTITION BY [Year],[MonthName],[WeekdayName]) AS [Date]

    FROM dbo.itvf_CALENDAR('01/01/2014','12/31/2014')

    WHERE [WeekdayName]...

    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: Convert string nvarchar(6) with format MMM-YY to date

    SELECT DATENAME(MONTH, CAST('01-' + string AS date)) + SPACE(1) +

    CAST(YEAR(CAST('01-' + string AS date)) AS varchar(4))

    FROM (VALUES('Dec-15'),('Jan-16'),('Feb-16')) test_data(string)

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  • RE: Error in dynamic sql

    A couple of things to consider.

    1) Change the PRINT @<sql_variable> to SELECT @<sql_variable>, since SELECT can display many more chars than SELECT.

    2) Explicitly cast the unicode literal in the SET...

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  • RE: Get info of all users with instance

    You could create a logon trigger to capture which logins are being used, and how often.

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