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  • RE: Delete a column in all tables

    EXEC sp_MSforeachtable '

    IF EXISTS ( SELECT TOP (1) * FROM sys.columns

    WHERE object_id(''?'') IS NOT NULL AND

    name = ''SSMA_TimeStamp'')

    BEGIN

    PRINT ''Altering table "?" to remove column...

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  • RE: Table Partitioning

    There is a clustered primary key on an ID column ... The partition key needs to be placed on a DATETIME column ... 23M rows

    23M rows is not that many....

    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: Copying data from one set of tables to another

    ErikMN (3/27/2014)


    RBarryYoung (3/27/2014)


    OK, here's my crazy, shoot-from-the-hip shortcut idea:

    1) Make a new schema in your source DB called [Export]

    2) For each table to be exported, create a View in [Export]...

    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 get the date?

    I prefer to avoid anything that is date or language setting dependent; DATEDIFF(DAY, 0, first_day_of_month) % 7 will yield a value that never changes no matter what the SQL setup...

    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: Fill in the gap between 2 number range

    You don't need to actually INSERT rows to use those values in a computation. Simply determine the number of "steps" between each row, and multiply the value in the...

    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 do duration in hours with ragged data

    To me, splitting it is the trivial part. Analyzing all the possible variations will be vastly more complex.

    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: Best way to expose msdb information

    If possible, I'd just add code to that job to write its status to a table in the other db. That way you could avoid referencing msdb at 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: Convert Float to a Phone Number

    I doubt you'll be able to recover the full number. Floats are imprecise beyond their guaranteed number of digits. You'll likely have to re-export the data.

    That said, you...

    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: GUID Pirmary key

    andrew gothard (4/2/2014)


    ScottPletcher (3/30/2014)


    andrew gothard (3/29/2014)


    Simple arithmetic, if you have 8k pages, one row per page (and we know that it's going to be bigger than that), 12500 rows. ...

    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: Can't drop index due to FK enforcement

    AZ Pete (4/2/2014)


    Thanks folks for the replies. However, my question is *why* did SQL Server elect to use the unique index defined on the TransmissionId column versus using the Primary...

    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: Execution Plan what to look for

    To allow the best possible use of any existing indexes, approach 1 is vastly superior to 2. Neither is best, however. Instead, assuming "endDate" is a date/datetime/etc., use...

    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: Unable to shrink large database (data file)

    I think this will depend most on your I/O subsystem's speed.

    But if there's only 30G total worth of data, I think you'd best off just doing a full shrink:

    DBCC SHRINKFILE...

    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: SQL beginner - books and material

    For DBA, be aware that having no experience will make this a very difficult transition. Most employers don't hire completely inexperienced DBAs.

    For DBA, download SQL Express, 2008 or 2012.

    If...

    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: Copy DB from Prod to QA

    Ed Wagner (3/31/2014)


    I've found the creation of a script and then restoring from a production backup to be very reliable.

    ScottPletcher (3/31/2014)


    Of course, if it's possible, it's much easier longer-term to...

    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: Copy DB from Prod to QA

    New Born DBA (3/31/2014)


    ScottPletcher (3/31/2014)


    Yes, restore the qa db from a production backup. Create a script that does that, including all the appropriate "WITH MOVE ... TO ..., MOVE...

    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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