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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
I'd try instead to just:
(1) just in case, as a backup, copy existing key column(s) and data column to be changed to a keyed backup table
(2) verify that existing data...
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 11:51 am
You don't need to re-count the rows every time.
DECLARE @BatchSize int
DECLARE @RowRount int
DECLARE @TableRowCount int
DECLARE @TableRowLimit int
SET @BatchSize = 10000
SELECT @TableRowCount = COUNT(*)
FROM PtActs WITH (NOLOCK)
SET @TableRowLimit = 10050000
WHILE...
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 10:45 am
The VALUES clause simplifies it considerately, which can be great for longer lists:
CROSS APPLY (
SELECT MIN(date)
FROM (
...
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 9, 2015 at 3:39 pm
SQLSACT (1/9/2015)
(SELECT plant_nbr
FROM ProductPlants AS B
WHERE B.sku =...
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 9, 2015 at 2:48 pm
DECLARE @sql varchar(max)
DECLARE @column_list varchar(max) --as returned by first query
SET @column_list = 'age,sex,race' --for example
SET @sql = 'UPDATE tbl2 SET col2 = [' + REPLACE(@column_list, ',', ']+[') + ']'
PRINT...
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 9, 2015 at 2:42 pm
I suspect recursion would be great for this, but that's not my specialty. This is somewhat akin to the earlier LOJ version, which unfortunately I didn't see until now...
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 9, 2015 at 2:38 pm
Eric M Russell (1/9/2015)
ScottPletcher (1/8/2015)
SELECT
CASE
WHEN message_text LIKE...
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 9, 2015 at 9:16 am
GilaMonster (1/9/2015)
Table is empty. No rows in the table means that the statistics objects are empty.
Not necessarily true -- a given index can be empty even if the table is...
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 9, 2015 at 9:09 am
You could also GROUP directly on the CASE expression itself:
SELECT
CASE
WHEN message_text LIKE '%ThePartToGroupBy%' THEN '%ThePartToGroupBy%'
...
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 8, 2015 at 4:55 pm
Might as well have max flexibility on the number of name levels provided:
DECLARE @tablename varchar(500)
DECLARE @sql varchar(8000)
SET @tablename = 'YourTableName'
--SET @tablename = 'server1.db1..YourTableName'
SET @sql = 'SELECT * FROM '...
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 8, 2015 at 4:48 pm
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