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Keep in mind that float is an imprecise data type, and the value actually stored in the table may not be exactly the same as the value that was inserted.
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".
May 30, 2013 at 3:49 pm
GilaMonster (5/22/2013)
ScottPletcher (5/22/2013)
It wasn't "out of context" -- you made an absolute statement, which thus applies to any context.
An absolute statement that you chose to ignore parts of.
I said shrink...
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".
May 22, 2013 at 2:30 pm
GilaMonster (5/22/2013)
ScottPletcher (5/22/2013)
GilaMonster (5/21/2013)
Shrink alone can't speed up a query.Isn't that an overly broad assertion?
Only when you quote me out of context.
If, for the sake of argument, some/all of 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".
May 22, 2013 at 2:15 pm
Purely fyi, I personally think a cross apply that names the value being used makes the code much easier to follow and easier to change later. For example:
Select
*
from...
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".
May 22, 2013 at 12:57 pm
GilaMonster (5/21/2013)
Shrink alone can't speed up a query.
Isn't that an overly broad assertion? If, for the sake of argument, some/all of the disk extents added were scattered all over...
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".
May 22, 2013 at 12:37 pm
This should "turn off" the identity property:
SELECT *
INTO dbo.newtable
FROM dbo.table
UNION ALL
SELECT TOP 1 (*)
FROM dbo.table
WHERE 1 = 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".
May 21, 2013 at 3:15 pm
RedBirdOBX (5/20/2013)
Would you be so kind as to provide an example?SalesmanID (PK)
SalesmanSSN (ype, it's the social)
FirstName
LastName
...etc...
ALTER TABLE dbo.tablename
ADD CONSTRAINT tablename__UQ_SalesmanSSN UNIQUE ( SalesmanSSN )
--of course you can name the constraint...
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".
May 20, 2013 at 2:43 pm
If you have an (extremely) large table(s), compress them [if on Enterprise Edition], particularly if they are (almost) never used, such as log/audit tables, etc..
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".
May 17, 2013 at 2:49 pm
First, you need an index on ceb.New_IndividualId: I'll assume you have that already.
Second, I'd cluster the #tmpIndividualCreateDates table by i.IndividualID: I'll assume you've done that already.
I guess the OUTPUT clause...
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".
May 16, 2013 at 3:52 pm
dwilliscp (5/14/2013)
On the Jobs front.. We almost never put SQL into the Job, but thanks for reminding me to check there too. Thanks to everyone...
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".
May 14, 2013 at 11:01 am
I also search table sys.sql_modules, which contains the code for all sys.objects members of type P, RF, V, TR, FN, IF, TF, and R.
If you want to check for 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".
May 13, 2013 at 5:01 pm
When you delete a large or very large numberr of rows at one time, SQL Server defers the actual deletes. The next time a page with deleted r0w(s) is...
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".
May 7, 2013 at 11:45 am
If the numeric portion is random anyway, definitely use all numeric characters if possible -- you're quite right: prefixing the random numbers with a fixed string will NOT help 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".
May 6, 2013 at 4:08 pm
jenny 12957 (5/6/2013)
im not sure this is the right forum to put this in, but i am working on redesigning our company database, and i was looking for best practices...
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".
May 6, 2013 at 4:00 pm
Just to clarify: with ROW_NUMBER(), you don't have to ORDER BY all the columns you want to SELECT; just one ORDER BY column is fine if that's all you need....
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".
May 6, 2013 at 3:50 pm
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