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  • Reply To: Best Practice question

    Michael L John wrote:

    ScottPletcher wrote:

    {Thousands of recompiles a day} vs {thousands of extra table scans a day} is an easy choice.  I'd have to see actual damage from the recompiles to recommend...

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  • Reply To: New Index Maintenance Methods Recommended by Microsoft

    Jeff Moden wrote:

    ScottPletcher wrote:

    Of course that forces the entire table to be rewritten every time.  In a typical rebuild, often large parts of the table do not need rewritten because they...

    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".

  • Reply To: New Index Maintenance Methods Recommended by Microsoft

    I'll have to think about that method some more, don't have time right now.

    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".

  • Reply To: Best Practice question

    {Thousands of recompiles a day} vs {thousands of extra table scans a day} is an easy choice.  I'd have to see actual damage from the recompiles to recommend differently.  Partly...

    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".

  • Reply To: Best Practice question

    So OP does in their next post.

    OK.  I might still stick with recompile on this.  It's returning only a single int column and the controlling columns (in the WHERE clause)...

    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".

  • Reply To: Pivot Query

    stephen.aa wrote:

    Just one more thing... The example above spans 29 months.  Is there a good way to separate it out to place three columns for each month within the date...

    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".

  • Reply To: Best Practice question

    So how do you know this will be run "thousands of times a day"?  I wouldn't expect it to called anywhere even close to that many times.

    I did not add...

    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".

  • Reply To: Identify INT,BIGINT,character in stored proc

    Which version of SQL Server?  If you're in a recent enough version, you can use function TRY_CAST to see if the value is a valid int or not.

    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".

  • Reply To: Subquery issue in PIVOT

    exec sp_executesql @sql = @sql, N'@date datetime', @date

    Are you sure you need a specific datetime and not a range value such as the current day?

    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".

  • Reply To: Best Practice question

    Jeff Moden wrote:

    ScottPletcher wrote:

    Jeff Moden wrote:

    ScottPletcher wrote:

    Actually you could be causing a performance problem by getting SQL to use the same query plan for different values, i.e., by avoiding the "overhead" of...

    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".

  • Reply To: Turning Off Hyper threading BIOS level

    As to licensing issues, talk to an expert on that.  Licensing has gotten really complex, you need someone who truly studies to know all the details on that correctly.

    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".

  • Reply To: Best Practice question

    Jeff Moden wrote:

    ScottPletcher wrote:

    Actually you could be causing a performance problem by getting SQL to use the same query plan for different values, i.e., by avoiding the "overhead" of a recompile. ...

    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".

  • Reply To: Turning Off Hyper threading BIOS level

    You can use CPU affinity to reduce the number of CPUs available to SQL Server.

    196 cores?  Wowza that's a *lot*.  If you're only at 25% usage, you presumably would be...

    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".

  • Reply To: Best Practice question

    Actually you could be causing a performance problem by getting SQL to use the same query plan for different values, i.e., by avoiding the "overhead" of a recompile.  The first...

    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".

  • Reply To: replace all tables used in view with prefix and update view defn automatically

    Below is some code that will probably do what you want.  I strongly recommend you run it first with the EXEC() commented out.  If all of the output looks ok,...

    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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