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  • RE: How to join multiple rows of subtable to parent table

    haagendaz (11/26/2012)


    I have 2 related tables and the second table can have many rows associated with the parent table. I need to join all of rows in table 2 to...

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  • RE: Shrink database after archiving

    Of course don't rebuild needlessly; check the stats and only rebuild those indexes that require it.

    Also, with a reasonably well-tuned tempdb, you should strongly consider using the:

    SORT_IN_TEMPDB = ON

    option. ...

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  • RE: LIKE with and without wildcards in WHERE clause

    pdanes (11/26/2012)


    DiverKas (11/26/2012)


    But wouldn't this always compare all variables, though? In the syntax with OR, the query engine can see that a variable is empty, thereby satisfying one side of...

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  • RE: How to do a full copy of a database onto the same server with a different name

    You want to use a T-SQL script to do the backup and restore, not go thru the GUI. That will speed up and simplify future repeats of the same...

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  • RE: switching address with Subtring & len funtion

    Yes, my initial concern wasn't with performance per se but with readability/understandability.

    Since PARSENAME is available, fully tested and documented already, I would use it in preference to hand-coded SUBSTRING,...

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  • RE: switching address with Subtring & len funtion

    Eugene Elutin (11/20/2012)

    After a bit of testing, I can confirm that PARSENAME does win much more often over use of CHARINDEX with SUBSTRING's than other way around.

    (Will keep this...

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  • RE: switching address with Subtring & len funtion

    Eugene Elutin (11/20/2012)


    ScottPletcher (11/20/2012)


    select PARSENAME(left(email, charindex('@', email) - 1), 1) + '.' + PARSENAME(left(email, charindex('@', email) - 1), 2) +

    substring(email, charindex('@', email), len(email))

    from (

    ...

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  • RE: switching address with Subtring & len funtion

    select

    PARSENAME(left(email, charindex('@', email) - 1), 1) + '.' +

    PARSENAME(left(email, charindex('@', email) - 1), 2) +

    substring(email, charindex('@',...

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  • RE: Performance Issue

    SQL Server has frankly always had some internal issues with parallelizing queries. Parallelization is great for (re)building indexes, but for queries it's always had its quirks.

    Unless you are absolutely...

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  • RE: Dependent Delete statements

    delete from #ExistingBackups

    where

    (Name not like '%master%' and Name not like '%model%' and Name not like '%msdb%') or

    (ISNUMERIC(Right(SUBSTRING(name,1,charindex('.',name)-1),8))=0) or

    ...

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  • RE: Grant execute on all Stored Procedures in specific DB's?

    ahthomas (11/19/2012)


    How do I grant (in the quickest simplest way) execute on all stored proc's in a database? I have a few to do this to, but not all on...

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  • RE: Which information can i log when i use Change Data Capture

    ocolakoglu (2/8/2011)


    Hi

    When i use change data capture can i log hostname,username information?

    You can use any columns from the original table you want ... but that's it.

    So to capture that...

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  • RE: trouble creating job to build index script

    fluffydeadangel (11/19/2012)

    my simple goal is to create a two part job that will reindex only the items that need it ...

    select 'ALTER INDEX ALL ON dbo.' ... 'FILLFACTOR = 80'...

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  • RE: Keeping track of the number of times a record appears in query results

    Other than the final ORDER BY, I think the query below will do it.

    Personally, I wouldn't rewrite your existing query any more than you have to to make it do...

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  • RE: how to remove characters char(0) to char(31)

    I too think nested REPLACEs would probably be fastest.

    You could do a simple function, but I'm not sure that would perform as well, let alone better ... but, really, with...

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