Forum Replies Created

Viewing 15 posts - 211 through 225 (of 851 total)

  • RE: Efficiency and scaling

    [font="Verdana"]I haven't been able to test my code, since you didn't supply any table definitions or example data. However, here's the approach. Hopefully you can get an idea...

  • RE: Passing in lists to SQL 2005 parameters, is there a better approach?

    [font="Verdana"]I'd go for passing in the list as XML, even for the small list. The reason is that it's not difficult to get an object in .NET to write...

  • RE: New to Data Warehouse - Setup data warehouse environment

    [font="Verdana"]John's quite correct. Data warehouses are designed quite differently to an OLTP database.

    If all you need to do is consolidate two databases (in the same structure) into one so...

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Paul White (5/21/2009)


    Would be fascinating to know who 'flamed' Gail.

    [font="Verdana"]Can't get rid of mental image of a posse of baseball-bat wielding DBA's wanting to chat about kneecap concurrency...[/font]

  • RE: Why shouldn't you use keywords as column names?

    [font="Verdana"]Several things here.

    You are not designing or writing for SQL Server, you are writing and designing for humans. Keep that in mind.

    What do I mean? Well, for SQL...

  • RE: NOLOCK VS ISOLATION LEVEL

    Paul White (5/21/2009)


    Bruce,

    Darn it. I was looking forward to an energetic debate there but it seems we all agree - oh well 😀

    [font="Verdana"]Just because we agree doesn't mean we...

  • RE: NOLOCK VS ISOLATION LEVEL

    Paul White (5/21/2009)


    Hey Bruce,

    I'm not usually one to disagree 😉 but:

    Read uncommitted is just as valid as any other isolation level.

    [font="Verdana"]Hey Paul,

    I'm not really entirely sure you are disagreeing...

  • RE: Float

    psangeetha (5/21/2009)


    Our data will need to have four places to right of decimal, it needs to be float.

    [font="Verdana"]You use FLOAT (or REAL) when your data has a varying number of...

  • RE: NOLOCK VS ISOLATION LEVEL

    [font="Verdana"]The pervasive use of NOLOCK as a "performance tool" is, I believe, a hang-over from the SQL 6.5 and prior days, when SQL Server was still page locking within tables....

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    GilaMonster (5/21/2009)


    Oh yay. 🙁

    Another email accusing me of personal attacks and damaging someone's public image by 'misleading' people about his statements.

    Sometimes I wonder why I bother.....

    [font="Verdana"]You bother because those who...

  • RE: Code T-SQL INER JOINS with OR keyword

    john.arnott (5/20/2009)


    Would not an OUTER join solution work too?

    [font="Verdana"]I would use an outer join as well, but perhaps one slight variation (probably just in how I think, I doubt it...

  • RE: Partition Strategy

    [font="Verdana"]Partitioning is certainly one strategy. Have you considered archiving off the "useless records" into another table?

    Also, if the changes to the table are infrequent, have you considered building covering...

  • RE: Report

    [font="Verdana"]Are we talking a SQL Server T-SQL formula, or a SQL Server Analysis Services MDX formula, or a SQL Server Reporting Services inline formula or a VB.Net formula or an...

  • RE: How to trim the decimal places?

    Jeff Moden (5/20/2009)


    Take Lynn's original advise... The third operand of ROUND will allow you to truncate instead of round. Heh... look it up in Books Online. 😉

    [font="Verdana"]ROUND() has a...

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    [font="Verdana"]The trick with teenagers is... you can't lock them in the shed, but you can lock yourself in the shed. :-D[/font]

Viewing 15 posts - 211 through 225 (of 851 total)