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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    BTW, it's sunday, 1.00 am and I'm taking backups of a 800 Gb Oracle database.

    Tomorrow I will have to restore it on a different server and I don't have the...

    -- Gianluca Sartori

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Alvin Ramard (7/31/2010)


    You know what upsets me about this issue? Lots of companies would not have any second thoughts about doing this with SQL Server but wouldn't dare do this...

    -- Gianluca Sartori

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    GilaMonster (7/29/2010)


    Gianluca Sartori (7/29/2010)


    ... it's by design, beacase the tables were initially loaded with NOLOGGING option

    And people still ask for a way to run SQL transactions without any logging....

    I...

    -- Gianluca Sartori

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    For those who are interested I've got a similar trick for Oracle.

    It's very simple: just run restore database...

    I've just restored a 300GB database to discover it's corrupted in many datafiles....

    -- Gianluca Sartori

  • RE: Sub query expressions vs. Joins.

    Jeff Moden (7/26/2010)


    Gianluca Sartori (7/26/2010)


    A minor note on the Oracle thing: it used to be completely rule-based, but now it's entirely cost-based. Starting from version 10g the rule-based optimizer is...

    -- Gianluca Sartori

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Tom.Thomson (7/26/2010)


    Gianluca Sartori (7/26/2010)


    Microsoft dumbness??? This reminds me of a recent discussion on TRY/CATCH...:-P

    (Just kidding, not trying to compare any of you to Mr. Doobya, but I couldn't resist:-))

    Well, just...

    -- Gianluca Sartori

  • RE: Sub query expressions vs. Joins.

    Jeff Moden (7/22/2010)


    Maybe that's true in Oracle but it's not true in SQL Server. Oracle is mostly rule based and SQL Server is cost based.

    I'm glad you commented...

    -- Gianluca Sartori

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Tom.Thomson (7/25/2010)


    Matt Miller (#4) (7/25/2010)


    Not that I agree with the argument, but I believe the reasoning had to do with not wanting to deal with the unertainties around non-determinism. ...

    -- Gianluca Sartori

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Congrats, Lynn. All the best.

    -- Gianluca Sartori

  • RE: Terrible code, trying to tweak

    Looks like a "catch-all query":

    ...

    FROM @init init

    JOIN tbl_ldf_mtgtype mtg

    ...

    -- Gianluca Sartori

  • RE: Any performance debate amongst Except, Intersect, Exists and their variants?

    Generally speaking, EXCEPT, INTERSECT and UNION compare all the fields in the input queries, so it's not always what you want to do.

    Anyway, it's just the actual execution plan that...

    -- Gianluca Sartori

  • RE: Is SQL server part of a cluster?

    select serverproperty('isclustered')

    This should help

    -- Gianluca Sartori

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Jan Van der Eecken (7/16/2010)


    He Gianluca, come down here. It's a sweltering 10deg C today in Cpe Town, and JoBurg is even colder.

    Last winter we had -12°C once, and...

    -- Gianluca Sartori

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Paul White NZ (7/16/2010)


    Hey Tom,

    You know Gianluca's Italian, right? 😛

    Paul

    Just one half, if you're talking about blood. 😉

    BTW, the Scottish half doesn't feel comfortable with today's 36°C here in Venice.

    -- Gianluca Sartori

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Tom.Thomson (7/16/2010)


    Kanji is Japanese written with Chinese characters...

    these two versions of Yokogaki have different Japanese names

    Thank you Tom. I thought that Japanese was Japanese, period. It's a very fascinating...

    -- Gianluca Sartori

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