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  • Reply To: UNION, JOIN?

    Based on the limited info we have so far, the JOINs would look something like this:

    SELECT *
    FROM dbo.main_table mt
    LEFT OUTER JOIN dbo.other_table1 ot1 ON ot1.WOQty = mt.WONum
    LEFT...

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  • Reply To: Multiple deadlocks occuring on simultaneous deletions from temporal table

    zoggling wrote:

    DELETE FROM dbo.Table WHERE ID IN (12);

    ...

    With the temporal table, deadlocks are guaranteed every time. Only one of the deletions will succeed; the rest will fail.

    We have tried ......

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  • Reply To: Index suggestions question

    oRBIT wrote:

    Many index-suggestions I get from the database I'm working on, very often suggests quite alot of include-columns. Could this be a sign of poor database-design?  As far as I...

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  • Reply To: (Newbie) Help with strange tables in my database "dbo.183" etc.

    No idea.  They're not system tables that are intrinsic to MS.  Some other user/3rd party code/script must be creating them.

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  • Reply To: column count per table best practice

    Jeff Moden wrote:

    ScottPletcher wrote:

    Again, you haven't ever done an actual logical design, have you?  Genuine data modeling, with no indexes, etc.., where you went through a true normalization process.

    Heh... more...

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  • Reply To: column count per table best practice

    Jeff Moden wrote:

    BWAAAA-HAAAA-HAAAA!!!  Ok... I "get it".  Yep... I agree... you never have to mention "IDENTITY" in a logical model.  I have to tell you, though, that the idea of having...

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    But, IIRC, the default trace does not record what id specifically made the change if that id has certain levels of permission.  I think if you want to know the...

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    A DDL trigger should be enough, including putting in place things to monitor it, to make sure no one has modified that trigger.

    In a business environment, no one should be...

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  • Reply To: Error 17311 while trying to run query with OPENDATASOURCE

    As a first step, make sure you are on the latest CU patch level.

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  • Reply To: column count per table best practice

    Jeff Moden wrote:

    Jeffrey Williams wrote:

    Jeff Moden wrote:

    That's where you and I would differ... to me, the "customer number" would be the IDENTITY column.  Or, perhaps, a Random GUID. 😀  Why would your "customer...

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  • Reply To: column count per table best practice

    Jeff Moden wrote:

    It would be really interesting to see you design a Customer or Employee table without one.  I'd also be interested in your claim of "it's literally impossible to normalize...

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  • Reply To: column count per table best practice

    Jeff Moden wrote:

    Heh... so THAT's the reason why so many people end up with "slow databases" and IDENTITY columns everywhere.  😉  A lot of the important stuff isn't even considered up...

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  • Reply To: column count per table best practice

    Great, sounds good.

    Again, though, your initial design should NOT be "tables", it should just be data.  It should be at a business level, not at a techy level.

    If at all...

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  • Reply To: column count per table best practice

    Ben wrote:

    I want to design a database for an OLTP app where it mainly involves customer and transaction. 

    Then definitely start the design before tables.  That is, do a logical data...

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  • Reply To: value for the max date group by id

    [Use ROW_NUMBER() partly because of inherent efficiency] And partly because it's so easy to adapt:

    SELECT theDate, value, flag
    FROM (
    SELECT *, ROW_NUMBER() OVER(PARTITION BY...

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