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  • RE: Non-Clustered, Composite Primary Key

    It seems you do indeed have the proper clustering key.

    Next I'd look at the missing index stats from SQL. You may be able to cover a large % of...

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  • RE: Tempdb not releasing the space

    Admingod (7/22/2014)


    Thanks it worked! So here we are not moving the file to different location.

    That means we are just altering the file size with following command.

    ALTER DATABASE tempdb MODIFY...

    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: Tempdb not releasing the space

    You can adjust the tempdb file(s) size using the following commands. The changes will be in effect the next time SQL Server starts.

    --EXEC tempdb.sys.sp_helpfile --to list the logical file...

    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: Datetime filter now working

    Btw, for date/datetime, don't use "<=" on the end date, use "<".

    In this case, instead of:

    [DATE] <= (DATEADD(s,-1,DATEADD(mm, DATEDIFF(m,0,GETDATE()),0)))

    do this:

    [DATE] < (DATEADD(mm, DATEDIFF(m,0,GETDATE()),0))

    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: 1 Quick question for all the DBA's

    I have also done some stuff to improve performance by creating appropriate indexes and by changing the way queries are written.

    I think that's one of the most value-added and differentiated...

    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: Set datime and convert it

    Best format for SQL Server is 'YYYYMMDD', which is always interpreted correctly. Therefore, for literal dates, always use that format, do NOT do a CONVERT to a date/datetime type...

    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: any way to reindex gigantic table efficiently?

    Would have to see your typical queries to be sure, but it's extremely likely the clustering keys are backwards, i.e., they should be ( timestamp, ident ) rather than...

    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: Adding version to row to ensure user updates the current row version

    It depends.

    Do you want to check just the column(s) they are actually trying to UPDATE? If so, you can just re-read them and insure they haven't changed...

    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: Altering a column impact on indexes?

    MyDoggieJessie (7/18/2014)


    I feel kind of silly asking this but really don't know...does altering a column's length have any impact on non-clustered indexes that use it? More specifically, if I...

    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 efficiently import data in .rpt format into SQL 2008

    halifaxdal (7/18/2014)


    ScottPletcher (7/18/2014)


    I put a "\" (backslash) immediately followed by "n" in my previous comments, after the \r, but the site must remove it as some type of special editing...

    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: Enhancing SQL Skills

    One very specific no-no that I still see all the time:

    Never use ISNULL() or NULLIF() in a WHERE clause or JOIN.

    You should avoid any functions against columns whenever possible (because...

    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: Checking user's AD Group

    Look at:

    IS_MEMBER ()

    as well.

    I think you would need authority to impersonate the user to test their group membership(s).

    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: Enhancing SQL Skills

    Read books, articles, etc., from/by Itzik Ben-Gan. Excellent!

    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 efficiently import data in .rpt format into SQL 2008

    I put a "\" (backslash) immediately followed by "n" in my previous comments, after the \r, but the site must remove it as some type of special editing character.

    Try setting...

    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 many indexes should we have?

    There's no "right" number of indexes per table. It depends entirely on usage.

    You need to consider at least SQL's index usage stats and missing index stats. [There are...

    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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