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  • RE: Show all data from four tables joined or matched on a particular column

    SELECT

    COALESCE(t1.comp_name, t2.comp_name, t3.comp_name, t4.comp_name) AS comp_name,

    ...

    FROM dbo.Tbl1 t1

    FULL OUTER JOIN dbo.Tbl2 t2 ON

    t2.comp_name = t1.comp_name

    FULL OUTER JOIN dbo.Tbl3...

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  • RE: How to shrink TempDb

    GilaMonster (2/25/2013)

    CTEs don't store results

    Never??? What if enough memory does not exist to store the results? Surely the results would spill to disk then, presumably to tempdb...

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  • RE: Subquery error

    IF EXISTS(SELECT 1 FROM VERSION

    WHERE VERSION LIKE '7.[01234567]%')

    BEGIN

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  • RE: TSQL joined Views

    Usually views contain lots of columns that aren't really needed when several of them are joined to produce a new result set.

    Stop using the views and code directly against the...

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  • RE: Every 3rd Friday of the Month

    SELECT

    CASE WHEN GETDATE() >= DATEADD(DAY, 1, [current_month_3rd_friday]) THEN

    --current day of month is past 3rd Fri, so calc next...

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  • RE: How to reduce the number of table access from multiple "select count(*) group by" with union all

    Select

    A, B, C,

    sum(case when A between 1 and 100 and B between 1 and 100 and C...

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  • RE: Need Deadlock troublehshoot help

    Holy cripe! A single, stand-alone INSERT and UPDATE are deadlocking? That table has serious performance issues and should be reviewed immediately. In the meantime, if 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: Need Deadlock troublehshoot help

    the other is doing Update on TableA by PK

    I'm guessing there are joins involved to help determine which row(s) to update.

    Try using just SELECT instead of UPDATE to get 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: Alternatives to @@RowCount?

    In SQL Server this is really only one transaction. You can issue multiple BEGIN TRANSACTIONS, but the outer transaction is the only one that really counts. You can...

    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: Writing the Where Clause for a Query/Stored Procedure.....

    Specifically, something like this:

    SELECT sum([Fatigue/Weakness]), sum([Loss of Appetite]), sum([Rash(Macular-Papular)]), sum([Headache]), sum([Retro-Orbital Pain]), sum([Cough]), sum([Cold]), sum([Sore Throat]),sum([Dyspnea]), sum([Nausea]), sum([Vomitng]), sum([Diarrhea]),sum([Constipation]),

    sum([Petechiae]), sum([Subcutaneous Hemorrhage]), sum([Gum Bleeding]), sum([Gum Bleeding(Days)]), sum([Epistaxis]), sum([Hematemesis]), sum([Melaena]), sum([Bleeding...

    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: Rows being dropped in query

    is there something in the join that could be counting these records out?

    Maybe in some cases "s.[to Date of service]" is NULL to indicate "no end date"?

    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, if any, is the best type of replication for implementing on hundreds of databases on one server?

    You need to do mirroring at the disk level, not the database level. The number of databases is then irrelevent, it's only the total volume of changes that 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".

  • RE: Summerizing 1 field from 6 selected.

    If you can accept the total stand-alone in a different result set, you can add this:

    COMPUTE SUM(acres) --but will NOT work in SQL 2012!

    to your query.

    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: TempDB questions

    Alexander Suprun (2/21/2013)


    ScottPletcher (2/21/2013)


    RAM is always used first to hold temp tables and table variables. But, if (and only if) RAM available for holding such rows is exceeded, 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".

  • RE: Filtered Indexes - Simple Partitioning without Enterprise Edition?

    Did you try just putting the Status column only in the index? SQL can still use that index to do a key lookup back to the main table. ...

    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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