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  • RE: Get entire row by max(date_field)

    Re the other thread, that's a common solution but works only if it's one field you need. A related answer is to do that, then do another join of...

  • RE: How to get the real USER_NAME?

    I'm still not sure if what you are reading into this is going to do what you originally wanted.

    Let's say the IIS server is X, the SQL Server is S,...

  • RE: Get entire row by max(date_field)

    This is a specific case of a general set of problems I've never found a good solution to, maybe someone else has.

    Consider the result set of:

    Select a, b, etc

    from table...

  • RE: Naming Conventions

    Well, I don't quite know how to post anything here that looks like a table. Here's something all run together that you might be able to make sense out...

  • RE: Naming Conventions

    I'm coming at this as a development manager not a DBA. I think that the database names, specifically the column and table names, are much more important than the...

  • RE: Bringing power users into the fold

    Re views - We've done some of that. There's just a LOT of combinations of tables, and the ones they screw up are things like customer records which can...

  • RE: Bringing power users into the fold

    Coming back to some of my more difficult issues, it's correctness. While it is easy to say "it is not my responsibility to make their data analyses correct", that's...

  • RE: Bringing power users into the fold

    well, glad to know there's someone else out there dealing with this.

    One thing we did do was create a "sandbox" database, whereby people could create their own objects (primarily tables...

  • RE: database refresh

    We have a largish (130g) database we need to refresh. We also need to build it without conflicts with online user queries. We found the best bet:

    - One...

  • RE: 64K Extents vs 4K NTFS cluster

    Be sure the chunk size in your raid sets holds a whole cluster, especially for raid-5. Otherwise each write will end up needing to hit more than 2 disks...

  • RE: 4 processor Dell machine for SQL server

    I'm going to offer a counterpoint to the Dell...

    Our first Data Warehouse server was a Dell 8450 with a Powervault SAN.

    The 8450 CPU itself was good, but...

  • RE: Log Shipping

    It's worth noting that the SQL7 log shipping procedures still work more or less. We had used those, customized slightly, before SQL2K came out. We just kept using...

  • RE: Transactional Immediate Update not Immediate?

    I have now been told that the "immediate" part of immediate updating only applies to updates on the subscriber, and not on the publisher.

    That probably explains what I saw.

  • RE: Difficult query

    I think I understand your question. One way to deal with it is nested queries. For example you want:

    Select <case..... very long case....> as X

    from table1, table2, table3,...

  • RE: Really poor checksum (Checksum_agg())

    Yes, I am, and yes I could, and probably will.

    I'm just disappointed that the tool designed just for this purpose is so poor. It's like no one ever learned...

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