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Eugene Elutin (10/2/2012)
ScottPletcher (10/2/2012)
sql-lover (10/2/2012)
bteraberry (10/2/2012)
ScottPletcher (10/2/2012)
Maybe I'm missing something.Why not just ALTER the column to be a bigint instead of an int?
He said these are very big tables. ...
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".
October 3, 2012 at 8:29 am
sql-lover (10/2/2012)
bteraberry (10/2/2012)
ScottPletcher (10/2/2012)
Maybe I'm missing something.Why not just ALTER the column to be a bigint instead of an int?
He said these are very big tables. Altering the column...
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".
October 2, 2012 at 5:24 pm
sql-lover (10/2/2012)
ScottPletcher (10/2/2012)
Maybe I'm missing something.Why not just ALTER the column to be a bigint instead of an int?
NO way! Because downtime! Why do you think that I am taking...
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".
October 2, 2012 at 5:18 pm
CELKO (10/1/2012)
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".
October 2, 2012 at 5:15 pm
SELECT *
FROM dbo.CustomerPurchase cp
WHERE
cp.PurchaseDate = '20120601 00:00:00.000' AND
EXISTS(
SELECT 1
...
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".
October 2, 2012 at 5:09 pm
Some other thoughts/possibilities:
Rather than export and then import, it should be faster to just directly INSERT INTO the new table, naturally doing a table lock on the new table.
Pre-allocate enough...
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".
October 2, 2012 at 5:02 pm
bteraberry (10/2/2012)
ScottPletcher (10/2/2012)
Maybe I'm missing something.Why not just ALTER the column to be a bigint instead of an int?
He said these are very big tables. Altering the column means...
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".
October 2, 2012 at 4:47 pm
dwain.c (9/26/2012)
Using it, I'd like to offer a slightly less verbose solution:
SELECT *, WaitTime=DATEDIFF(minute
,CAST(check_in AS TIME)
,CAST(STUFF(appt_time, 3, 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".
October 2, 2012 at 4:26 pm
Maybe I'm missing something.
Why not just ALTER the column to be a bigint instead of an int?
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".
October 2, 2012 at 4:14 pm
SQL Server is optimized to do table lookups, whereas CASE statements are comparatively very slow.
Therefore, I suggest using a lookup table, as suggested by others. You absolutely want to...
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".
October 2, 2012 at 4:11 pm
#days / 7 = #wks
#days % 7 = #days
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".
October 2, 2012 at 4:04 pm
I wouldn't duplicate l lot of columns for a covering index w/o real research showing it was 100% necessary.
You should consider the possibility of clusterting tableB on fk_id, but that...
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".
October 2, 2012 at 4:00 pm
Eugene Elutin (10/2/2012)
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Is this statement true? If so is it better to use Guid or BIGINT?
It depends, but usually BIGINT is better.
Another question, related to keys... If a table uses...
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".
October 2, 2012 at 3:51 pm
Ellen-477471 (10/2/2012)
I've searched for this...
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".
October 2, 2012 at 9:38 am
If you typically query the Document table by PersonId, change the clustered key on the Document table to be PersonId instead and you should get great response time for individuals...
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".
September 28, 2012 at 1:44 pm
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