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  • RE: Archiving

    size /1024 / 1024 AS gbsize

    That is not the right computation to get gb. "size" is the number/count of 8K pages. So, to get gb from size, you...

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  • RE: SQL Security Best Practices - Dealing With User Name Changes

    The person's login id is often some combination of last name and first name, so you need to change the name there.

    However, internally you should assign each person/user a unique...

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  • RE: Transaction log SHRINK

    You can definitely shrink the log file "live". SQL simply won't do it if it would cause a loss of data.

    The tricky part is finding the right size to...

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  • RE: Date Comparisons

    And you often need to compare for a full day against a legitimate datetime column.

    For example, in a logging table, you would have logging datetime -- obviously you would want...

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  • RE: Adding a time limit to a SQL Job

    When the potential-trouble step starts, it could immediately start another job. A job start is async so it would not delay the first process. The extra job...

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  • RE: An Introduction to Database Design

    Excellent article overall.

    These are extremely difficult concepts to introduce to people, and the article does a superb job of making the ideas accessible to anyone.

    [I do think Alice should have...

    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 to find out whether date is of which data type

    Steven Willis (1/10/2013)


    ScottPletcher (1/10/2013)


    dwain.c (1/9/2013)


    Steven - Those FUNCTIONs look like nice work. I've saved them off for future analysis. 🙂

    You might want to review the new functions in SQL...

    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 to find out whether date is of which data type

    dwain.c (1/9/2013)


    Steven - Those FUNCTIONs look like nice work. I've saved them off for future analysis. 🙂

    You might want to review the new functions in SQL 2012 dealing with...

    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: creating SQL login with cursor

    Bhuvnesh (1/9/2013)


    ScottPletcher (1/9/2013)


    the cursor should be optimized with FAST_FORWARD:

    Any article reference for this ?

    Books Online.

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  • RE: Convert Non Clustered PKs to Clustered

    Jeff Moden (1/9/2013)


    ScottPletcher (1/9/2013)


    Don't automatically assume the PK makes the best, or even a good, clustered index, in particular if the PK is an identity column.

    Considering that the IDENTITY column...

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  • RE: Index usage and RID lookup.

    GilaMonster (1/7/2013)


    ScottPletcher (1/7/2013)


    Fewest rows? The number of rows that match all the criteria will be the same regardless of the index used, right?

    Match all criteria, yes. What I was...

    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: "USE DATABASE" in stored procedure

    If you start your procedure name with "sp_", put it in the master db, and mark it as a system object, it can execute in the context of the current...

    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: "USE DATABASE" in stored procedure

    If you just want to run the proc for a single db at a time, you don't need dynamic SQL at all, so I suggest avoiding it. The code's...

    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: creating SQL login with cursor

    I, too, don't have a problem with a cursor per se here; it could be done w/o one, but it's not a big deal for such a limited number of...

    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 Non Clustered PKs to Clustered

    Btw, it's always frustrated me that SQL Server can't seem to read only the non-leaf pages of a clustered index. If SQL needs only key column(s), why does it...

    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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