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TheSQLGuru (1/16/2015)
Where ltrim(rtrim(col1)) = ''I see this code ALL THE TIME at clients. Can someone tell me why both would be needed?? 😎
Why would either be "needed"? Just...
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".
January 16, 2015 at 3:16 pm
halifaxdal (1/16/2015)
Lowell (1/16/2015)
halifaxdal (1/16/2015)
no way i know of to ignore errors, you have to explicitly use LEFT functions in the SELECT or something to work around this issue.
based on your...
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".
January 16, 2015 at 3:11 pm
ALTER TABLE dbo.person_test2
ADD CONSTRAINT CK_ext
CHECK ( Pext LIKE REPLICATE('[0-9]', LEN(Pext)) )
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".
January 16, 2015 at 3:06 pm
You really shouldn't need full securityadmin just to grant EXECUTE on a proc(s):
GRANT EXECUTE TO user1 WITH GRANT OPTION
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".
January 16, 2015 at 3:01 pm
FILLFACTOR directs SQL on how full to make each page of data. 96% leaves 4% -- roughly 300 bytes -- free on each page to allow for new rows...
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".
January 16, 2015 at 12:34 pm
Technically it should be left at 0, as that's more secure.
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".
January 15, 2015 at 3:46 pm
The ROLLBACK could indeed cause an error if a transaction wasn't active at the time. Here's how to correct that:
IF XACT_STATE() <> 0
BEGIN
ROLLBACK;
END;
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".
January 15, 2015 at 3:46 pm
You can use a PK or simply a UNIQUE constraint or index. For example:
CREATE UNIQUE CLUSTERED INDEX Student_Classes__CL
ON dbo.Student_Classes ( Student_ID, Class_ID ) WITH...
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".
January 15, 2015 at 3:43 pm
T_Peters (1/14/2015)
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".
January 14, 2015 at 4:28 pm
Or even another view. A view could also explicitly reference objects in a different db.
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".
January 14, 2015 at 4:24 pm
Were the backups using compression before and are did not use compression last time for some odd reason?
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".
January 14, 2015 at 4:21 pm
The complexity of the plan is also a factor in how much SQL weights keeping a plan in cache (by assigning more complex plans higher initial values).
Also, I believe ad-hoc...
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".
January 14, 2015 at 4:01 pm
curious_sqldba (1/13/2015)
ScottPletcher (1/13/2015)
DECLARE @BatchSize int
DECLARE @RowRount int
DECLARE @TableRowCount int
DECLARE @TableRowLimit int
SET @BatchSize = 10000
SELECT @TableRowCount = COUNT(*)
FROM PtActs WITH (NOLOCK)
SET @TableRowLimit...
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".
January 13, 2015 at 1:59 pm
RHJ (1/13/2015)
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".
January 13, 2015 at 1:56 pm
Technically you should still be dealing with a logical not a physical design, i.e. "entities" rather than "tables". but let's jump ahead to tables anyway, I guess.
You're missing at least...
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".
January 13, 2015 at 1:31 pm
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