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  • RE: what does this query do?

    It deletes rows with the current date/day if the table contains any row with a date before today's date where the 4 column values match today's 4 column values.

    Edit: btw,...

    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: Need help to finding pattern

    SUBSTRING(sample_text, PATINDEX('%[a-z][a-z][a-z][a-z][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]%', sample_text), 10)

    For example:

    SELECT

    sample_text,

    SUBSTRING(sample_text, PATINDEX('%[a-z][a-z][a-z][a-z][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]%', sample_text), 10)

    FROM (

    SELECT 'some other 44 numbers and text 555-555-1212 for...

    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: Help with working out space needed to backup SQL2008 DB

    Agreed, no.

    But always use the SQL Server management tools to change SQL accounts, never the Windows tools.

    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: Import Numbers with '-' or scientific notation

    To be safe, I make them all "Text".

    Select the whole spreadsheet (if it's not too large) or each column separately (if it's very large), do "Format Cells...", and on "Number"...

    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: VLF and manage log file size.

    You can have two log files, but it doesn't directly benefit you. When the first drive is (near) full, though, adding a second log file on a different drive...

    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: Issue with a slow Query

    You might want to give the query below a try, although it will output a given row only once, even if it would have matched multiple conditions in the original...

    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: VLF and manage log file size.

    2nd log file is 140GB and free space 31GB

    Wow, that's a lot of used log space.

    Make sure you are taking proper log backups and/or that you don't have an old...

    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: Help with setting up Differential backups please (SQL2008)

    For databases with a significant number of transactions, I would expect differential backups to speed up the restores somewhat. My reasoning is that applying tran logs requires that every...

    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: Faster Querying

    What you really need to do first is add the best clustered index to both tables. Then and only then do you add other, non-clustered, covering indexes if they...

    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: Odd issue with leading zero's from a varchar being dropped.

    If there's a NULL in the "NOT IN" list, no rows will be excluded, so you may be seeing rows -- including without leading zeros -- that you didn't expect...

    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: Help With Trigger Delete SQL

    ALTER TRIGGER triggerDeleted

    ON [table_name]

    AFTER DELETE NOT FOR REPLICATION

    AS

    SET NOCOUNT ON;

    DECLARE @sql nvarchar(max);

    SET @sql = (SELECT

    'EXEC [procedure_name] ' + CAST(ID AS varchar(10)) + ', '...

    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: Second resultset of stored procedure into a temp table - also, what's the best way to flay a develoer?

    You're welcome! At least you don't need to change much of 3500 lines of code :-).

    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: Parameter datatypes linked to underlying table column datatype

    Sadly, you can't do that directly in SQL Server.

    The only way to simulate that would be to use alias data types -- lots of aliases.

    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: Variables being ignored ?

    I think the issue may be that this format of query:

    SELECT @variable = column FROM table WHERE ...

    leaves the original value of @variable in place if a row is not...

    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: Second resultset of stored procedure into a temp table - also, what's the best way to flay a develoer?

    Honestly, I'd probably kludge this one if possible.

    See if you can add an optional flag as a parameter to the proc to indicate that the first result set is not...

    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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