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  • RE: Composite Index performance

    And I realize that an absolute rule is not the intent of what you're doing, but that is what very often happens now. Identity keys have become so much...

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  • RE: Composite Index performance

    But that's the problem that is over-looked in the all-out desire to achieve a "small clustering key". Often the "always a small clustering key" approach requires creating far more...

    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: Group by performance FK / PK

    I think that Query1 data got scrambled or something.

    Can you use a spreadsheet instead? After you run the queries, in the Results/Output area, left-click in the empty box...

    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: Composite Index performance

    The Dixie Flatline (7/15/2014)

    Statement of fact: No single clustered index can ideally serve the needs of multiple queries searching against different columns of the table.

    Another statement of fact:...

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  • RE: Composite Index performance

    The Dixie Flatline (7/15/2014)


    Scott, I respectfully have to ask for clarification. Whenever you add multiple columns to the clustered index, you increase the size of ALL nonclustered indexes...

    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: Converting Integer Values to Datetime

    You don't need to explicitly convert it. Just get the format to a string of YYYYMMDD, which is always a valid date/datetime format:

    SELECT DATEADD(HOUR, @hour, CAST(@date AS varchar(8)))

    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 would I tune this query?

    Here's a few thoughts:

    If T270.C18133 might often be less than 19 bytes, add this to the WHERE clause:

    WHERE

    LEN(T270.C18133) >= 19

    Since you don't have an ending %,...

    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: Group by performance FK / PK

    Interesting, but not definitive.

    Would you please run these commands on that database and post the results? That will show what indexes SQL "thinks" are missing, and how existing indexes...

    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: Composite Index performance

    It will cover that specific process as it exists now, yes, but you're doubling one table's size. And you'll have to periodically go back and re-do the "covering" index...

    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: Isolating a list with pattern search

    D'OH, sorry, I left off one all-important WHERE condition, an absolute NO-NO for a DBA :-):

    ;WITH

    cteTally10 AS (

    SELECT 0 AS tally UNION ALL SELECT 1 UNION...

    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: Composite Index performance

    I strongly agree that you should substitute numeric values in place of the (very) long varchar key columns: [SubscriberID],[UserID] and [DeviceID].

    But, until then, based on what you've posted, you should...

    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: Isolating a list with pattern search

    Not sure specifically what you're looking for, maybe this can help:

    ;WITH

    cteTally10 AS (

    SELECT 0 AS tally UNION ALL SELECT 1 UNION ALL SELECT 2 UNION ALL...

    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: Link a column in each together with a foreign key

    Ed Wagner (7/14/2014)


    I know the name has no functional impact on anything, but I prefer the naming convention that includes the referencing table and the referenced table. Example: Employees_Departments_FK....

    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: Scalar Function vs Calculated field

    A computed age column could not be persisted in any event because it uses a non-deterministic value (todays_date).

    Whether you use the MONTH+DAY version or the -YEAR version could be based...

    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: what are my options? Rollback taking an age.

    For (very) large tables, typically you do any massive updates in batches if at all possible. Do them by clustered key range; that is, start at a given cluster...

    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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