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  • RE: tempdb fileplacement

    Again, if you've got unlimited funds, definitely go RAID10 (or SSD) throughout, but because of the better resiliency, even if pure reads are somewhat slower.

    Presumably all of us have done...

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  • RE: Table documentation advice

    Used .rtf instead.

    The hyperlinks don't work, but it still gives you the flavor.

    The underlying html is generated from a table that contains the text documentation.

    I'm still working to fully extended...

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  • RE: Table documentation advice

    Sean Lange (12/26/2012)


    ScottPletcher (12/26/2012)


    Sean Lange (12/26/2012)


    ScottPletcher (12/26/2012)


    Sean Lange (12/26/2012)


    SQL_Kills (12/26/2012)


    Hi,

    First of all I hope everyone has had a good Christmas!

    Just wanted to know if anyone documents there table using...

    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: Table documentation advice

    Sean Lange (12/26/2012)


    ScottPletcher (12/26/2012)


    Sean Lange (12/26/2012)


    SQL_Kills (12/26/2012)


    Hi,

    First of all I hope everyone has had a good Christmas!

    Just wanted to know if anyone documents there table using MS_Description? I'm struggling...

    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: Len did not display right size

    It really looks like the column is "char(11)" and not "varchar(11)".

    Can you verify the column's data type?

    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: Table documentation advice

    Sean Lange (12/26/2012)


    SQL_Kills (12/26/2012)


    Hi,

    First of all I hope everyone has had a good Christmas!

    Just wanted to know if anyone documents there table using MS_Description? I'm struggling to think how...

    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 fileplacement

    Lynn Pettis (12/25/2012)


    ScottPletcher (12/25/2012)


    Lynn Pettis (12/24/2012)


    ScottPletcher (12/24/2012)


    You also need to verify that the log LUNs are RAID10 and the data LUNs are RAID5 (typically that is the best performance).

    If you're...

    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 fileplacement

    Lynn Pettis (12/24/2012)


    ScottPletcher (12/24/2012)


    You also need to verify that the log LUNs are RAID10 and the data LUNs are RAID5 (typically that is the best performance).

    If you're going to put...

    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: T-SQL query to add multiple valued report parameter

    SSRS will automatically properly expand an "IN (@multi_valued_report_parameter)" if it's in an SSRS dataset and follows some basic rules. You may want to verify that you have a proper...

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  • RE: Need help in calculating the RUNTIME of my Job's ETL

    SELECT

    CAST(DATEDIFF(SECOND, Start.WorkQueueStartWorkDate, Finish.WorkQueueEndWorkDate) / 3600 AS varchar(3)) +

    RIGHT(CONVERT(char(8), Finish.WorkQueueEndWorkDate - Start.WorkQueueStartWorkDate, 8), 6)

    from (

    select CAST('20121216 20:57:01.293' AS...

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  • RE: Design suggestion

    Let's assume you can get all that information.

    You have conflicting needs: you don't want to slow down the login process, but you also don't want to store full string descriptions...

    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 fileplacement

    You also need to verify that the log LUNs are RAID10 and the data LUNs are RAID5 (typically that is the best performance).

    If you're going to put both tempdb mdf...

    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: Correlated Subquery - Stream Aggregate

    SQLSACT (12/19/2012)

    Why does the 1st query return duplicates and the 2nd query doesn't?

    ... the 2nd query having a stream aggregate. Why is this being added?

    Thanks

    The first query does a JOIN;...

    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: Better way to write this?

    Don't see anything magical to let you get rid of any of the lookup joins :-).

    There typically won't be, so all you can do is tune the lookups as much...

    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: Column to Generate a Confirmation Number

    If you do need a prefix (and/or suffix), you can do this:

    CREATE TABLE dbo.tablename (

    prefix char(3) DEFAULT 'ABC',

    ident int IDENTITY(1, 1) NOT...

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