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  • RE: 15 Quick Short Interview Questions Useful When Hiring SQL Developers

    Excellent! Best overall set of SQL developer interview qs I've ever seen.

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  • RE: Date Table

    I think this is a much simpler method:

    DECLARE @first_fiscal_year smallint

    DECLARE @number_of_years tinyint

    SET @first_fiscal_year = 2014

    SET @number_of_years = 10

    ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

    DECLARE @fiscal_years TABLE (

    year smallint PRIMARY KEY,

    ...

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  • RE: Unused Procedure lists - Most easiest way

    Keep in mind that procs are listed only as long as they are in the cache. On a memory-constrained or busy server, stats could be lost/removed. Also, whenever...

    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: Date column with 1900-01-01 value

    gissah (12/23/2014)


    Thanks that is what I ended up doing with a subquery.

    select pt.projinvoiceprojid,MIN(CAST(pt.PROJECTEDSTARTDATE AS DATE)) AS 'SOPOrderDate_ProjectStartDate'

    from projtable pt

    where pt.PROJECTEDSTARTDATE !='1900-01-01'

    group by pt.projinvoiceprojid

    order by pt.projinvoiceprojid

    Be careful! Do...

    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: Killing all sessions and restoring the database

    Markus (12/23/2014)


    They way I do my refresh db jobs is the first step of the job is the kill step, second step is restore. They happen back to back...

    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: Challenge - Loading 120M records within 21 hours

    Michael Valentine Jones (12/20/2014)


    Could you try the statement below on a development or test server using a full sized table?

    The storage size for numeric precision of 12 or 18 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".

  • RE: Killing all sessions and restoring the database

    KILL is never a verified way to do this. A session(s) could immediately restart itself and start using the db again.

    If you don't want to use "SINGLE_USER WITH ROLLBACK...

    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 datetime to bigint

    Ray Herring (12/22/2014)

    I did say that the Date and Time are integers

    I missed that I think, where was it?

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  • RE: Replacing string values

    Here's an alternative:

    declare @children int

    set @children = 4

    SELECT

    string,

    STUFF(string, start_of_integer_value, CHARINDEX('<', string, start_of_integer_value) - start_of_integer_value,

    CAST(@children...

    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: delete user of db in sql server

    Replace "<your_db_name>" with the restored db name:

    ALTER AUTHORIZATION ON DATABASE::<your_db_name> TO sa

    USE <your_db_name>

    DROP USER <user_name>

    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: Formatting output of query, need help

    I typically see %s with one decimal place. If you want more, adjust the "decimal(4, 1)" to (5, 2) or whatever you prefer.

    SELECT EmailID, Email

    ,[%...

    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: Display parameter values in particular order

    Do you have an underlying "master" table for these codes? If so, add a sort_sequence value to that table and sort based on that. Then you don't have...

    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: When Creating Tables, Is a RecID Column necessary?

    sqlvogel (12/22/2014)


    Alexander Suprun (12/22/2014)

    Are you saying that having a big composite primary key on multiple varchar columns which also has to be used in other tables for referential integrity has...

    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: How to format unformated phone numbers Please...,

    Jeff Moden (12/22/2014)


    CELKO (12/22/2014)


    Pull all the punctuation out and pad with digits as needed until you get the Standard International phone number. Let the presentation layers handle presentations.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.123

    You also...

    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 datetime to bigint

    Ray Herring (12/22/2014)


    I think we see a common misunderstanding illustrated here.

    We think of and represent DateTime as a string and SSMS (and most other providers) obligingly display the value as...

    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".

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