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Grant Fritchey (9/4/2013)
ScottPletcher (9/4/2013)
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".
September 4, 2013 at 5:25 pm
Grant Fritchey (9/4/2013)
ScottPletcher (9/4/2013)
Grant Fritchey (9/4/2013)
Instead I've noticed that you're probably going to have an "identity more likely than not" approach on most systems just because it makes sense.
I'd disagree...
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".
September 4, 2013 at 5:11 pm
Grant Fritchey (9/4/2013)
Instead I've noticed that you're probably going to have an "identity more likely than not" approach on most systems just because it makes sense.
I'd disagree even with that;...
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".
September 4, 2013 at 4:23 pm
Are schema names specified on the tables in the query? If not, what are the default schemas of the two users running the queries?
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".
September 4, 2013 at 3:17 pm
You're quite right. There's no genuinely good reason for the "default" clustering key to be an identity column. Many people just do it by rote, without thinking about...
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".
September 4, 2013 at 3:14 pm
SELECT
[Database],
MAX(CASE WHEN MONTH(ReportDate) = 01 THEN Size END) AS Jan,
MAX(CASE WHEN MONTH(ReportDate) = 02 THEN Size END) 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".
September 4, 2013 at 2:11 pm
Patti Johnson (9/4/2013)
IF DATABASEPROPERTYEX('archer', 'Status') = 'ONLINE'
AND EXISTS(SELECT 1 FROM sys.database_mirroring WHERE...
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".
September 4, 2013 at 1:56 pm
Patti Johnson (9/4/2013)
IF DATABASEPROPERTYEX('archer', 'Status') = 'ONLINE'
BEGIN
use archer
SET NOCOUNT ON
END
It looks good until you execute and 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".
September 4, 2013 at 1:33 pm
Try this:
IF DATABASEPROPERTYEX('archer', 'Status') = 'ONLINE'
BEGIN
...
END
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".
September 4, 2013 at 12:26 pm
You don't want to use a function against the END_DATETIME column if you can avoid it, since any function will prevent SQL from using the full seek capabilities against that...
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".
September 3, 2013 at 2:10 pm
Don't forget restore damaged instance. That is the most complex recovery. Particularly test for master, model and msdb.
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".
September 3, 2013 at 2:03 pm
Whatever rules you decide on, you should enforce them programmatically. Otherwise, the rules will be broken and be meaningless.
Also, follow the first rule of naming -- don't build meaning...
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".
September 3, 2013 at 2:00 pm
Something like below. It's possible you only need one left join, depending on the specific data in your tables:
SELECT
CASE WHEN b_out.Continent_cd IS NOT NULL THEN...
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".
September 3, 2013 at 1:49 pm
MyDoggieJessie (8/30/2013)
ScottPletcher (8/30/2013)
MyDoggieJessie (8/30/2013)
It may "bypass" the locking of the records it's ready but it does not improve performance or reduce any overhead one bit.
LOL. That's self-contradictory...
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".
August 30, 2013 at 2:49 pm
Sean Lange (8/30/2013)
ScottPletcher (8/30/2013)
Sean Lange (8/30/2013)
ScottPletcher (8/30/2013)
Sean Lange (8/30/2013)
ScottPletcher (8/30/2013)
Sean Lange (8/30/2013)
NOLOCK hints. They are NOT a performance boost.
To me, that's not a logical claim. While NOLOCK is clearly...
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".
August 30, 2013 at 2:23 pm
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