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  • RE: Future for DBAs?

    Last year I went to an Oracle Exadata presentation. They say the future for DBAs will be plugging ethernet and power chords. 😛

  • RE: SQL Query Performance Issue when using a IntegerListType

    Did you compare the actual execution plans? Can you post them?

    Can you post table and index definition for all the tables involved?

    You may also take a look at this article...

  • RE: Interesting INSERT-EXEC issue

    The variables you are using inside OPENROWSET have to be declared and initialized inside the same code block (in other words, inside the string you are using as argument). It...

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    GilaMonster (2/17/2011)


    Koen Verbeeck (2/17/2011)


    Gianluca Sartori (2/17/2011)


    Code brings more (pseudo)code, it seems...

    Definitely kill the one who started this on THE THREAD!

    :-D:-D

    I'll go fetch the angry mob! 🙂

    There's a few of them...

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    CirquedeSQLeil (2/16/2011)


    For the execution of Wayne:

    --get spid of code requestor

    sp_whorequestedcodeIntheThread 'Wayne'

    --use returned spids to verify the request

    dbcc inputbuffer(61)

    --output

    'Wayne definitely requested code on the thread'

    --yup that's the one

    Kill 'Wayne'

    Craig...

  • RE: Interesting INSERT-EXEC issue

    DBA-640728 (2/16/2011)


    This is the error:

    OLE DB provider "SQLNCLI" for linked server "(null)" returned message "Deferred prepare could not be completed.".

    Msg 8180, Level 16, State 1, Line 1

    Statement(s) could not...

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Jeff Moden (2/14/2011)


    GilaMonster (2/14/2011)


    $#%$$#%#@#!!!!!!!

    Another promising looking contract cancelled due to lack of @#$$#@$%$ budget!

    I'm almost at the point of walking away and going to work in a book store...

  • RE: Can a bad plan be stuck in cache?

    It could also be that your procedure plan was compiled against stale statistics and then cached.

    Did some index/statistics maintenace run meanwhile?

  • RE: Weird query plan, should I flush my cache?

    I spent the last 2 days investigating the issue and I found something really interesting.

    BOL states that updating statistics causes queries to recompile:

    UPDATE STATISTICS:


    Updating statistics ensures that queries compile with...

  • RE: Preventing usage of "SELECT *..."

    I must have missed it the first time it was published.

    Smart and interesting. Well done.

    I will probably never use it for all the reasons that others have pointed out.

  • RE: Published Again!

    Congrats, Brandie! Well done!

  • RE: Out of process OLEDB provider and windows authentication

    ALZDBA (2/9/2011)


    that auth remark rings a bell.

    If I recall correct our DB2 (udb gateway for z/os) admins granted read on the IBM folder (and subsequent folders) to authenticated users.

    Interesting note,...

  • RE: Out of process OLEDB provider and windows authentication

    Hi everyone.

    Here's how things evolved meanwhile:

    1) It's not a distributed transaction issue. It was initially, then I configured MSDTC correctly and it started giving the same error for a different...

  • RE: Weird query plan, should I flush my cache?

    Thank you, Jeff. I will try and keep you posted.

  • RE: Membership Database schema incl. 12 monthly renewals

    Tom.Thomson (2/9/2011)


    Gianluca Sartori (2/9/2011)


    You're looking for the MERGE statement, I guess.

    EDIT: clicked the wrong button.

    As the two inserts and the update are on three different tables, and when the target...

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