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RE: Sic Semper NULL
Excellent article!
Regarding the commission example, to consider something specific, I would prefer to explicitly know that a commission does not apply. Therefore, I might add a "IsCommissionEligible" BIT column. This is, most...
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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RE: Missing Stored Proc Text in syscomments table
You also need to add an ORDER BY, otherwise you can't be sure the code rows will be returned in sequence:
SELECT ...
ORDER BY id, colid
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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RE: Is it possible to format a COMPUTE clause?
If the base table is small, you can do this:
SELECT *
FROM #tmpSumTest
UNION ALL
SELECT CAST(SUM(number) AS DECIMAL(19, 8))
FROM #tmpSumTest
If not small, you can make the main query a subquery, adding...
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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RE: database table search
Yes, you'll have to change the query for that.
To get tables with '%school%' in them:
1) AND must match all the other criteria, do this:
WHERE o.name LIKE N'%school%'
AND o.xtype = ''U'' AND o.name...
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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RE: database table search
D'OH, sorry, change the TINYINTs to SMALLINTs.
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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RE: database table search
I assume you know the column type is char/varchar/nchar/nvarchar. If not, remove the check for "%char%"; if you know it's varchar, naturally you can change it to "%varchar%".
For one db:
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".
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RE: Please allow feedback on "Script of the Day"
> Kill connections is pretty good. <
No, it's not - ALTER DATABASE should be used.
And if you really want to issue specific KILLs, you can do it something...
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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RE: Structure of SP results
Sorry, correct, I mis-read the original q.
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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RE: Structure of SP results
Try looking at table "syscolumns". It includes not just table columns but also stored procedure columns
.For example:
SELECT *
FROM syscolumns WITH (NOLOCK)
WHERE id...
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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RE: Facing problem with executing large-value query variable
Change @Qry from VARCHAR(5000) to VARCHAR(8000).
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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RE: Naming Conventions
I too don't like a "t"|"tb[l]" prefix, no least of all because a view can be changed to a table and vice-versa. Column prefixes, of any type, are even worse.
I do...
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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RE: How do you spell S-Q-L?
No, "wrong situation" refers primarily to an application being added to the server. And not necessarily a full-blown business app either.
Say, instead, Java applets are added to the server. ...
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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RE: How do you spell S-Q-L?
>> How much memory does SQL use on startup? <<
I disagree about the relevance of this q. This knowledge is not only useful but vital for a senior DBA. Otherwise,...
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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RE: Building a string range
Split the varchar and int portions for storage purposes only. You can still combine them for display, etc..
So, create two new columns, one varchar and one (small)int, copy the existing...
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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RE: Introductory book on T-SQL
I recommend (Philip) Pratt's "A Guide to SQL". I used it for db classes I taught and thought it was excellent for students.
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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