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Gail Shaw SSC Guru Points: 1004504 More actions · Answer 1

Koen Verbeeck (12/21/2012)
ChrisM@Work (12/21/2012)
Anybody out there?
Yes, but I'm very busy fighting off the zombie apocalypse.

No zombies here. They probably got robbed and re-killed on their way down the continent.

Gail Shaw
Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
SQL In The Wild: Discussions on DB performance with occasional diversions into recoverability

We walk in the dark places no others will enter
We stand on the bridge and no one may pass

Gail Shaw SSC Guru Points: 1004504 More actions · Answer 2

SQLRNNR (12/21/2012)
The Dixie Flatline (12/21/2012)
WayneS (12/21/2012)
SQLRNNR (12/21/2012)
The Dixie Flatline (12/21/2012)
In SSC Heaven, all the OPs do proper backups.
...And do proper restores.
And they don't restart their servers to fix data corruption issues.
And they post specific questions with suitable code to reproduce the issue.
And they don't run daily jobs to shrink their database files.
And they don't ask you to help them get jobs for which they are obviously unqualified.
And don't ask for braindumps

And they don't ask for help in defrauding the MS Partner program

Gail Shaw
Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
SQL In The Wild: Discussions on DB performance with occasional diversions into recoverability

We walk in the dark places no others will enter
We stand on the bridge and no one may pass

The Dixie Flatline SSC Guru Points: 53354 More actions · Answer 3

GilaMonster (12/21/2012)
SQLRNNR (12/21/2012)
The Dixie Flatline (12/21/2012)
WayneS (12/21/2012)
SQLRNNR (12/21/2012)
The Dixie Flatline (12/21/2012)
In SSC Heaven, all the OPs do proper backups.
...And do proper restores.
And they don't restart their servers to fix data corruption issues.
And they post specific questions with suitable code to reproduce the issue.
And they don't run daily jobs to shrink their database files.
And they don't ask you to help them get jobs for which they are obviously unqualified.
And don't ask for braindumps
And they don't ask for help in defrauding the MS Partner program

And they actually read the BOL examples you pointed them to, instead of just asking you to write their code for them.

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Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain. -- Friedrich Schiller
Stop, children, what's that sound? Everybody look what's going down. -- Stephen Stills

SQLRNNR SSC Guru Points: 281334 More actions · Answer 4

The Dixie Flatline (12/21/2012)
GilaMonster (12/21/2012)
SQLRNNR (12/21/2012)
The Dixie Flatline (12/21/2012)
WayneS (12/21/2012)
SQLRNNR (12/21/2012)
The Dixie Flatline (12/21/2012)
In SSC Heaven, all the OPs do proper backups.
...And do proper restores.
And they don't restart their servers to fix data corruption issues.
And they post specific questions with suitable code to reproduce the issue.
And they don't run daily jobs to shrink their database files.
And they don't ask you to help them get jobs for which they are obviously unqualified.
And don't ask for braindumps
And they don't ask for help in defrauding the MS Partner program
And they actually read the BOL examples you pointed them to, instead of just asking you to write their code for them.

And they come bearing gifts - like execution plans

Jason...AKA CirqueDeSQLeil
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I have given a name to my pain...MCM SQL Server, MVP
SQL RNNR
Posting Performance Based Questions - Gail Shaw[/url]
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WayneS SSC Guru Points: 95460 More actions · Answer 5

Happy Birthday Jason.

Enjoy the hippo...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEc8rGonrQw

Wayne
Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server 2008
Author - SQL Server T-SQL Recipes

If you can't explain to another person how the code that you're copying from the internet works, then DON'T USE IT on a production system! After all, you will be the one supporting it!

Links:
For better assistance in answering your questions
Performance Problems
Common date/time routines
Understanding and Using APPLY Part 1 & Part 2

Steve Jones - SSC Editor SSC Guru Points: 736252 More actions · Answer 6

Happy holidays, everyone and hope you enjoy the rest of the year. This is my last workday in 2012, though I'll be checking in here and there.

Ron McCullough SSC Guru Points: 63877 More actions · Answer 7

Steve Jones - SSC Editor (12/21/2012)
Happy holidays, everyone and hope you enjoy the rest of the year. This is my last workday in 2012, though I'll be checking in here and there.

May you and yours enjoy the holidays ...

If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something.

Ron

Please help us, help you -before posting a question please read[/url]
Before posting a performance problem please read[/url]

Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1004356 More actions · Answer 8

Crap... we're still here. That means I don't have to do restores using the special backups I made. It also means I have to fill out my freakin' timesheet again! 😛

--Jeff Moden

RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.

Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.

Helpful Links:
How to post code problems
How to Post Performance Problems
Create a Tally Function (fnTally)

SQLRNNR SSC Guru Points: 281334 More actions · Answer 9

Jeff Moden (12/21/2012)
Crap... we're still here. That means I don't have to do restores using the special backups I made. It also means I have to fill out my freakin' timesheet again! 😛

Timesheet? I have to go restore all those databases now that I figured we didn't need anymore:-D

Jason...AKA CirqueDeSQLeil
_______________________________________________
I have given a name to my pain...MCM SQL Server, MVP
SQL RNNR
Posting Performance Based Questions - Gail Shaw[/url]
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Koen Verbeeck SSC Guru Points: 259105 More actions · Answer 10

Bugger. All the time dimensions in my data warehouses just went to the 21st. Now I'll have to add more years. What's the next doomsday?

Need an answer? No, you need a question
My blog at https://sqlkover.com.
MCSE Business Intelligence - Microsoft Data Platform MVP

Lynn Pettis SSC Guru Points: 442467 More actions · Answer 11

Constantly amazed by the number of people who think that full backups truncate the transaction log. Where do they get such ideas?

TomThomson SSC Guru Points: 104773 More actions · Answer 12

Lynn Pettis (12/22/2012)
Constantly amazed by the number of people who think that full backups truncate the transaction log. Where do they get such ideas?

That's a clear sign that you are over-optimistic about the average DBA's willingness to put in enough effort to understand how backups and transaction logs work.

They pull such ideas out of nonsense that they find on the web; they find the nonsense on the web because it's easier to ask google to find something dumbed down than to endure the pain or reading proper documentation.

They are to lazy to be productively lazy (which is what all competent engineers are - getting it right first time is a sign of supreme laziness combined with an awareness that it's less pain to do a task once than half a doxzen times).

Tom

SQLRNNR SSC Guru Points: 281334 More actions · Answer 13

L' Eomot Inversé (12/23/2012)
Lynn Pettis (12/22/2012)
Constantly amazed by the number of people who think that full backups truncate the transaction log. Where do they get such ideas?
That's a clear sign that you are over-optimistic about the average DBA's willingness to put in enough effort to understand how backups and transaction logs work.
They pull such ideas out of nonsense that they find on the web; they find the nonsense on the web because it's easier to ask google to find something dumbed down than to endure the pain or reading proper documentation.
They are to lazy to be productively lazy (which is what all competent engineers are - getting it right first time is a sign of supreme laziness combined with an awareness that it's less pain to do a task once than half a doxzen times).

so efficiently lazy vs incompetently lazy

Jason...AKA CirqueDeSQLeil
_______________________________________________
I have given a name to my pain...MCM SQL Server, MVP
SQL RNNR
Posting Performance Based Questions - Gail Shaw[/url]
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Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1004356 More actions · Answer 14

Lynn Pettis (12/22/2012)
Constantly amazed by the number of people who think that full backups truncate the transaction log. Where do they get such ideas?

To be honest, I can see it from their side. Since the FULL backup does have the word "FULL" in it and it DOES make a skeleton for the log file, you'd think that MS would at least give the option for it to backup and truncate the log file all in one simple step.

--Jeff Moden

RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.

Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.

Helpful Links:
How to post code problems
How to Post Performance Problems
Create a Tally Function (fnTally)

Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1004356 More actions · Answer 15

I don't know about the rest of you, but the amount of SPAM posts on SSC seems to be growing. I even got SPAMmed on my PM just now. Just in case any of you folks want a date with "Rebeca", here's what they PM'd me with... 😉

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--Jeff Moden

RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.

Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.

Helpful Links:
How to post code problems
How to Post Performance Problems
Create a Tally Function (fnTally)