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  • RE: Need to have a query which could get me the details sizes for all the tables in a prticular database

    Here's my version (everybody's got their own version :-)). It provides MB totals for each table, each table and all its indexes, total number of indexes per table and...

    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: long running sp

    Please try my last posted version.

    It includes a check to avoid updating those rows that already have the value that would be assigned.

    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: Creating a procedure to dynamically build an update statement

    @scott: By best practice you never store your unencryption mechanisms and your data in the same place. Admittedly, there are times when you may need to work with the data...

    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: Creating a procedure to dynamically build an update statement

    I suggest looking into SQL's existing EncryptByKey and DecryptByKey functions.

    I disagree with the idea that encryption/decryption can be left to the app. Because you may want to work with...

    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: long running sp

    Maybe I'm not getting this, but tableB does not get updated.

    No, but tableB provides a lookup table to get the value with which to update the other table. ...

    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: What is the perfect Index , in this special case

    My best (educated) guess based on what you've posted so far is:

    A filtered index on ISAPPLIEDFORSPECIFICDAYS = 1, including the daily columns.

    That index may or may not help -- you'd...

    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: long running sp

    CREATE NONCLUSTERED INDEX [IDX_ApplAcctNo] ON [dbo].[tableB]

    (

    [applAcctNo] ASC

    )

    Since tableB already has that index, I suggest changing its definition to also contain the acct_nbr and the bit flag. Then...

    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: Total / average function advice

    So much for a UNIQUE Clustered Index and the performance that will offer.

    The way around this problem is to determine what makes each row UNIQUE in your table while considering...

    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: Shrinking Databases

    The DBCC SHRINKDATABASE() will shrink the log file also, so you don't need to do it separately; thus, you can just comment out the "DBCC SHRINKFILE".

    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: run job from the last inserted record

    You can specify a batchsize for a bulk load, and SQL then commits every time after that many rows are loaded (obviously you definitely want to specify a batchsize for...

    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: What are the implications of backing up a database more than once to the same file

    As for the restore, it's very easy to create a script to have SQL restore the last backup of a db.

    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: How to select latest appointment for a list of customers from Appointments table

    Maybe, then you could also do this:

    select

    a.* -- to save time, should define all columns you want to return

    from

    dbo.Appointments a

    ...

    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: Combined wildcard and between statements

    I think this will do it:

    WHERE

    DIAG1 NOT LIKE 'C[0-8][0-9]%' AND

    DIAG1 NOT LIKE 'C9[0-7]%' AND

    DIAG1 NOT LIKE 'D3[7-9]%'...

    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: How to select latest appointment for a list of customers from Appointments table

    I strongly suspect you will want to see more details on the last appointment than just the date:

    SELECT

    CustomerId, AppointmentDate, ...

    FROM (

    SELECT *,...

    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: Strange order for returned records, suddenly

    but that does not mean that someone else didn't change something

    As Lynn has stated, that can happen even without any change being made to anything.

    SQL only provides ORDERing if you...

    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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