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  • RE: MSmerge_tombstone

    Just one bummer about the solution above:

    SQL Server won't let you alter the table because it is being published for replication. So you'll have to drop the table from...

  • RE: Analyzing Data Storage - Ten SHOWCONTIG Queries

    This is a great article. One of those articles that will nudge a DBA like myself into looking at this info for our databases. Thanks for the great...

  • RE: Foreign Table JOINs in dimensions?

    Yeah, inevidetably, I figured that out about five minutes after I posted. It also appears that if I get the hierarchy right, with the Location table below the SaleLocation...

  • RE: 2.4gh P4 vs. dual P3 with RAID

    I tend to agree that it would probably be the first option. The only time I could see it being the 2nd option, is if your application is tremendously...

  • RE: NULLs' effect on Indexes

    If a column needs an index, you should index it whether it's varchar or int, or whatever.

    Even if it's not as efficient to use a varchar(55) than an int, it's...

  • RE: Really strange performance problem

    Just a thought: is it possible the query using the substing(30) might cross a line from using RAM to using HDD for storage? I can't really see how that...

  • RE: NULLs' effect on Indexes

    I think I remember now. It was actually discussed at a session at the PASS conference in Seattle last year, with the 2 owners of this site debating indentities...

  • RE: NULLs' effect on Indexes

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    In fact used to be that comparing Numeric values were faster than Char values and it was suggested to always use Numeric....

  • RE: XML Results are broken up!

    Thanks for the input guys. I figured it was a lot easier to get feedback from you guys, than to either figure out to do it myself in code,...

  • RE: XML Results are broken up!

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    There is a trace flag (257) that makes the output a little easier to work with.


  • RE: Query to return only populated columns

    Doing it with XML definitely sounds like your best bet. I highly recommend checking out the XML forums on this site rather than relying on the Books Online info,...

  • RE: varchar length

    What about accepting the email text as a TEXT parameter, than parsing it into a series varchar's and referencing it as a pointer?

  • RE: Getting Text data out into a variable

    I figured I would have been better off just posting the example in the first place, since I knew people would want it...

    In the following sample, XMLPost is a table...

  • RE: Outputting XML from SQL

    Thanks TC, that info rocks.

    Now I just have to remember where I was planning on using it orignally!

  • RE: Getting Text data out into a variable

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    I have a Temp table like this. Candidate_Portions (Candidate_ID int Portion_ID int, Portion_XML Text). Now I have to retreive the data...

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