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  • RE: Naming a date range based on a Start and end date

    Code looks OK to me.

    Regarding date formatting, I'd suggest using 'YYYYMMDD', which is foolproof on SQL Server, rather than 'YYYY-MM-DD', which can fail depending on specific settings in SQL Server.

  • RE: Disk configuration

    You could have tempdb data files on both RAID1s for performance reasons, simulating something of a faux RAID 10, recoverability obviously not being a factor for tempdb.

    Depending on...

  • RE: Disk configuration

    The contention (I think) is where some folks latched onto something you said that implied you knew how to recover from a lost array in a 2xRAID1 setup with no...

  • RE: Disk configuration

    I think this series of articles is pretty good, and yielded some interesting results about RAID:

    http://www.kendalvandyke.com/2009/02/disk-performance-hands-on-part-6-raid.html

    That's not to say this article is the last word on RAID or anything. ...

  • RE: Disk configuration

    Perry Whittle (6/26/2012)


    Scott i don't disagree with you, we know that multiple arrays are ideal but all we're saying is in this case you have to go for something a...

  • RE: Disk configuration

    As I understand it having database files stored across two arrays (data on one array, logs on the other) gives us a better chance of recovering to the point immediately...

  • RE: Disk configuration

    You lose the db as it exists if a RAID1 fails, but if you place the files properly on the two RAID1s, the db can be fully recovered, which would...

  • RE: trouble with CASE statement

    You can also use a structure like this:

    WHERE 1 = CASE

    WHEN @var = A AND [column] IN (A, B) THEN 1

    WHEN [column]...

  • RE: Disk configuration

    You're more likely to lose a complete RAID1 mirror, than you are 3 drives out of a 4 disk RAID10 array

    OK, but it's not the odds against losing it, it's...

  • RE: Disk configuration

    My concern with one big RAID10 is again "survivability". If you do somehow lose the (4-drive) RAID 10 here, all the dbs are also lost.

    With two RAID1s, you can...

  • RE: Disk configuration

    With RAID1 you lose spindle aggregation - such that it is with just 4 drives in the RAID10.

    Even with my specified condition of:

    database filegroups with two files, one on each...

  • RE: Disk configuration

    agree on the whole but you would almost certainly notice some performance degradation whilst the RAID1 or 5 array is being rebuilt.

    True, but RAID1 with a good controller should not...

  • RE: Temp Tables

    The author clearly meant #2. Most of us were reading #1. The wording is definitely ambiguous.

    I suppose it's somewhat ambiguous.

    But #2 is so illogical and extreme given everything...

  • RE: Disk configuration

    Being a DBA, I'm as concerned with recoverability/"livability" as with speed.

    Having all your data and log files on one RAID5 provides no inherent recovery capability. Are the SQL trans...

  • RE: Temp Tables

    2. A Table Variable can have primary keys and indexes defined

    Baloney.

    "Defined" is inherently an action, not a state.

    You cannot "define an index" on a table variable in SQL Server.

    If the...

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