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  • RE: Help with memory usage.

    I'd suggest reducing SQL to 32GB rather than 36GB. Remember that Windows needs some RAM to manage the other RAM. I think you're cutting it too close initially.

    First,...

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  • RE: Calculated column Only for Insert

    Sony Francis @EY (7/20/2012)

    ...

    2. When the operation is update then modiifed date as getdate. WHen insertion happens modified date is null.

    ...

    Note :- Trigger is not applicable here

    If you don't use...

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  • RE: Aggregate may not appear in the WHERE clause unless...

    rupes0610 (7/20/2012)


    Thank you, but I am now getting this error:

    Column 'dbo.IIRPS_HPOO_LPAR.OnlineMemory' is invalid in the HAVING clause because it is not contained in either an aggregate function or the GROUP...

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  • RE: Temp Tables

    john.arnott (7/20/2012)


    Re: Myth that @Table variables are only in memory.

    It never made sense to me that people would think that MS would develop an open-ended methodology to manage data in...

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  • RE: Merge Performance

    I suspect the MERGE time could be reduced by clustering on the ProductID, but with it being nvarchar(60), that's not particularly appealing.

    If you can go to just varchar(60), and the...

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  • RE: Merge Performance

    bpw (7/19/2012)

    Each table has the following indexes:

    - nonclustered, unique, primary key (nvarchar(60)) - used for the MERGE join.

    - clustered, unique (int)

    Paul

    >> ON (t.ProductID = s.ProductID) <<

    So is ProductID...

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  • RE: Table Design Question

    hisakimatama (7/19/2012)


    First, I could have a table with a row for each item, and columns for each month. ...

    Alternatively, I could create a table for each month, and track sales...

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  • RE: Error 21335: [SQL-DMO] The new DB File size must be larger than the current size.

    You have to use DBCC SHRINKFILE to reduce a file below its initial allocation.

    USE <your_db_name>

    -- get the file#s / names of all the db's files

    EXEC sp_helpfile

    Then choose the file# or...

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  • RE: Delete, Insert and update in the same query

    Jeff Moden (7/18/2012)


    ScottPletcher (7/17/2012)


    Sounds like RCS (Read-Committed Snapshot) is what you need here.

    Why would that be any better than a simple MERGE?

    It provides continuous availability of the data, with no...

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  • RE: Showing Backup compression one record per Database

    SELECT

    [Database Name],

    [Compression Ratio]

    FROM (

    SELECT

    b.database_name 'Database Name',

    ...

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  • RE: Delete, Insert and update in the same query

    Sounds like RCS (Read-Committed Snapshot) is what you need here.

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  • RE: Optional Parameters in Stored Procedures

    takilroy (7/17/2012)

    My intent is to see if anyone has been able to or knows of a way to create a global constant variable or use a sql function to determine...

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  • RE: Optional Parameters in Stored Procedures

    I really think you're going to drive people crazy trying to follow this because no one else does it.

    Almost universal is to use NULL to mean "no value was passed...

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  • RE: Optional Parameters in Stored Procedures

    takilroy (7/17/2012)


    Unfortunately, I can't use look up tables because a default value for a parameter MUST be a constant, meaning either a literal value or a @@ constant. So,...

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  • RE: Random space filled varchars

    Again, in theory yes.

    But in the real world that's often difficult to do and takes a lot of time. And often a change later to the code by someone...

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