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  • RE: Please Help on Trailing spaces

    Sean Lange (9/5/2012)


    To me that is vastly better than using LTRIM/RTRIM on all subsequent queries!

    You certainly have a valid point. Not sure that adding an insert/update trigger on every table...

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  • RE: create YTD in a Table

    To be fair, higher precision in intermediate calculations in complex equations can in fact cause errors rather than solving them.

    I'm certainly no authority on currency laws, so I can't speak...

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  • RE: Please Help on Trailing spaces

    Sean Lange (9/5/2012)

    I don't think I agree that you should just add a trigger to trim spaces but we can agree to disagree here.

    To me that is vastly better than...

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  • RE: Time as a high precision difference of dates

    I think you avoid all the CROSS APPLYs, as below.

    As written the code just ignores anything beyond 24 hrs, but if you needed to, you could add a check for...

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  • RE: DBCC SHRINKFILE EMPTYFILE

    oradbguru (9/4/2012)Due to application limitations, there can only be the one existing filegroup.

    Thank you

    ?? Not sure I follow. Applications should be completely unaware of any filegroups in SQL...

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  • RE: Please Help on Trailing spaces

    Edit: Removed, repeat.

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  • RE: Please Help on Trailing spaces

    You should use a trigger to trim the data during INSERTs and UPDATEs -- NEVER let poorly formatted data be queried directly from the database.

    Personally I don't see anything wrong...

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  • RE: create YTD in a Table

    Since the table already contains the previous year's YTD totals, would a simple LEFT JOIN suffice to get the prior year's YTD total?

    SELECT

    t1curr.cod, t1curr.[year], t1curr.[month], t1curr.value,...

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  • RE: Best Practice : coalesce vs. isnull?

    GSquared (12/14/2009)


    BaldingLoopMan (12/14/2009)


    To each their own.

    Even in cases where the data type precedence won't cause a problem, I find the Coalesce version below much easier to read, understand, and maintain,...

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  • RE: find a grouping with at least one row within the group containing a certain value

    Any of that seems like overkill to me for the specific problem stated. Why not just?:

    SELECT

    name,

    ISNULL(MAX(CASE WHEN type = 'typeB' THEN...

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  • RE: Are all columns really included in the clustered index?

    winston Smith (8/28/2012)


    A clustered index is in reality the table, organized by the clustering key.

    But you can make a clustered index based on only a small number of columns in...

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  • RE: Nested Loops Joins

    Make sure the statistics on all tables are up to date -- obsolete statistics could cause SQL to choose the wrong type of join.

    Of course SQL sometimes chooses the wrong...

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  • RE: One skinny table or many wide tables?

    You should be fine with a single table provided you cluster the table by:

    ( [Time], MnemonicId ) --if I understand Mnemonic id correctly, as the original telemetry data src

    Uniqueidentifiers are...

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  • RE: CREATE VIEW permissions

    CREATE VIEW permission denied in database 'MWC2'

    Looks to me like there is an explicit DENY of CREATE VIEW permissions somewhere.

    DENY will override/"cancel" an equivalent GRANT.

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  • RE: shrinking the log file

    Kenneth.Fisher (8/20/2012)


    Ya'll are making the assumption that the problem is ReportServerTempDB. It's entirely possible that 400 GB is the correct size for it and there are databases that are...

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