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  • RE: does ss2008 maintain an internal timestamp of data updates?

    Exactly Paul; well put.

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  • RE: Query performance issue

    Both of above tables are properly indexed.

    The overall process takes around 1 hour to execute the query.

    I gotta say, those two statements seem contradictory 🙂 or you're on a terribly...

    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: does ss2008 maintain an internal timestamp of data updates?

    Either one.

    Adding a rowversion column to every table would indeed be huge overhead for no real gain, since it likely would never be used. Eight bytes per row would...

    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: Restore master db from sql 2000 to sql 2008 R2

    True. I didn't explicitly mention it, but I meant using standard/approved methods, such as generating the legit commands:

    CREATE LOGIN

    EXEC sp_addlinkedserver

    etc..

    With the old master db there, you could get (almost)...

    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: Restore master db from sql 2000 to sql 2008 R2

    You should be able to restore the master db to a different db name, if you want to pull data from the old master db directly in the SQL 2008...

    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: does ss2008 maintain an internal timestamp of data updates?

    I didn't object to doing it on ONE table.

    I merely pointed out that for SQL to try to do that on all tables, as a default, as it were, would...

    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: Performance in joining annual totals to a monthy subset for a report

    Can anyone of you think of anything else?

    Yes, cluster the table by date and/or employee; choose the column(s) and the order based on your other query needs.

    Typically the clustered index...

    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: Update the description property of a table in SQL Server

    Yes, that can be done.

    It's easier with linked servers but possible even without.

    Do you have a Linked Server defined between the servers? Or do you prefer not to have...

    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: record last rundate

    i need to record the last successful job run date in a table.

    For an actual SQL job, SQL itself records that info.

    Look in msdb.dbo.sysjobhistory.

    To get the job name, join...

    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: does ss2008 maintain an internal timestamp of data updates?

    No. Maintaining that on all tables would be a huge sacrifice of performance for no real gain.

    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: need help with query speed.

    You're still fine. SQL will add an integer counter itself so it can tell the rows apart. It's some slight overhead but it's not a real issue.

    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".

  • RE: need help with query speed.

    primary key = id

    recorddate ascending = non unique, non clustered

    That's your problem.

    You must *cluster* by recorddate. Add a non-clus index on id, if you need it.

    Lowell's change is vital...

    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: need help with query speed.

    How is "devicehistory" clustered?

    If it's not clustered, or clustered by something irrelevant like an identity column, you could cluster it by recorddate and vastly speed up your queries.

    Also, you should...

    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: Find records in table that match patterns in different table

    I expected that, just wanted to be fair about it 🙂 .

    The optimizer still needs improvement.

    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: Find records in table that match patterns in different table

    Did you adjust the original query so you're doing an apples-to-apples comparison?

    SELECT *

    FROM #myData md

    CROSS JOIN #patterns p

    WHERE

    md.descr LIKE p.pat

    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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