Does the table exist and is used for a long time or just a bit of work?

Short answer, add indexes if they speed up queries more than the time things...

Gary Varga (12/7/2015)

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It seems to me that the established professions either have a more rigorous framework for estimation and change control (e.g. construction) or have expectations of the unknown accepted...

Friday

Honestly, the reapply all logs up to today, without getting another full backup just won't work. You'll eventually have too much work to do overnight and it's too brittle.

First, you...

I agree with both above. An ODS just tends to be a central data warehouse where you've consolidated data, cleaned/standardized, and then often feed other systems. I've seen a few...

Excellent

If you pulled the data directly into a data reader and then processed that down on the client, is that faster?

ccd3000 (12/10/2015)

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I think we're alchemists (most of us anyway) in terms of where we are in the profession's evolutionary development. Others in this thread have astutely pointed out that we...

cjb110 (12/10/2015)

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Yes we are, and are we striving to reach the same standards as physical engineering, yes I think most of us are.

I think that article was a disservice to...

Manic Star (12/10/2015)

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We're janitors.

We clean up the place, take out the trash and keep the mechanism humming along with regular maintenance that no one sees, appreciates or cares about...

If you aren't storing dates, be careful here. I would bet you get a bug at some point when a shift or a schedule goes over 24 hours. I've worked...

Make sure no proxy is set and ensure that the job itself has the account correctly chosen. There are various ways to change this, and configure different accounts for a...

SQLBits is going to be iffy for me. I need to be back here on Sun, May 8, so I may have to check if I can speak on Friday...

Ah, good one Luis. I realize I misread this as first. You want to parse out related rows.

I think Luis' solution will work, but only if your rules are for...

You are asking too much of Server Core.

If you're remote, and you need client tools in a GUI, then you should have a remote machine that you connect to, which...