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  • RE: TSQL Case Statement help

    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...

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  • RE: t-sql - days to week and days

    #days / 7 = #wks

    #days % 7 = #days

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  • RE: Easy Question - Indexes on Tables in a view

    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...

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  • RE: UNIQUEIDENTIFIER vs BIGINT

    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...

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  • RE: IDENTIY COLUMN Property behaviour

    Ellen-477471 (10/2/2012)


    Is there a chart somewhere that shows the maximum number of identity values for the data type used when creating an identity field in a table?

    I've searched for this...

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  • RE: Lazy Table Spool triggered by a Clustered Index Seek -- ISNULL() in the WHERE clause the trigger?

    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...

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  • RE: GROUP BY conundrum

    And for general performance reasons, get rid of the functions on the date/datetime column:

    SELECT p.product,

    SUM(CASE WHEN j.holiday = 0 THEN j.qty_delivered END) AS...

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  • RE: Is there a way to tell if a box is really a VM or physical server?

    You could try:

    SELECT SERVERPROPERTY('ComputerNamePhysicalNetBIOS')

    If that doesn't work, there are SERVERPROPERTY parameters that aren't documented: you might try poking around for some of those and see if any of them help...

    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: SQL Audit - DML action type for database role

    Try:

    ADD (SELECT ON OBJECT::[dbo].[SecDetail] BY [dbo])

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  • RE: Behavior of "NOT IN"

    S_Kumar_S (9/24/2012)

    I logically expect NULL records to be returned here, but they are not. ... Is there some setting which impacts this behavior?

    Yes there is a setting, but you should...

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  • RE: Trigger to concatenate two columns and update in new column

    Jeff Moden (9/24/2012)

    It would take a little more space but I recommend adding the PERSISTED hint.

    For me, it depends, mostly on how and/or how often the full_name was used.

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  • RE: Trigger to concatenate two columns and update in new column

    Agreed.

    For example:

    ALTER TABLE dbo.tablename

    DROP COLUMN Full_Name;

    ALTER TABLE dbo.tablename

    ADD Full_Name AS CAST(ISNULL(F_Name + ' ', '') + ISNULL(Lname, '') AS varchar(100))

    -- change 100 to whatever max length you want for...

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  • RE: T-SQL Help Needed

    Jeff Moden (9/20/2012)


    SomewhereSomehow (9/20/2012)


    That a person is in wikipedia means that he is notorious enough that someone thought to write of him.

    It is also possible that person wrote about themselves...

    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 Help Needed

    SomewhereSomehow (9/20/2012)


    Evil Kraig F (9/20/2012)


    Perhaps, I've been accused of optimism before... rarely, but it's happened. I'm sorry to hear your political system is falling apart however.

    Actually it 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: T-SQL Help Needed

    GSquared (9/20/2012)


    SomewhereSomehow (9/20/2012)


    Nope. Not going to taint you with my personal opinions regard Mr. Celko. Too bad he is a co-author with Itzik on a book as I...

    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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