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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Alvin Ramard (2/10/2009)


    It's the DBA that is homicidal that you have to worry about.

    [font="Verdana"]How do you distinguish them from normal DBAs?[/font]

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Jack Corbett (2/10/2009)


    Of course you may be having your surgery done by a resident or intern that has not slept in 18 hours.

    [font="Verdana"]I think everyone who has been involved in...

  • RE: SQL or Oracle

    [font="Verdana"]... especially if you factor in the cost of TOAD, which most Oracle shops seem to purchase. shudder[/font]

  • RE: view or select statement...which is better?

    GilaMonster (2/10/2009)


    May I very politely and with the greatest respect suggest that it may be a better plan to read first and post second? 😉

    [font="Verdana"]Fair comment. Shamefaced[/font]

  • RE: SQL or Oracle

    [font="Verdana"]True. I've used SQL Compare, or the schema compare as part of Visual Studio for Data Professionals. And it's not too hard to write a script to do...

  • RE: Update and Except question.

    pparlapalli (2/10/2009)


    update tblOld

    set obsolete = 1

    where c1+c2 IN

    ...

  • RE: case statements to insert/update

    [font="Verdana"]It's absolutely a new feature in SQL Server 2008. It's certainly not available in SQL Server 2005.[/font]

  • RE: view or select statement...which is better?

    [font="Verdana"]Gotcha. I did a little subsidiary reading on Books Online, and you're quite right -- cached query plans don't apply for views. Ah well. I learn something...

  • RE: SQL or Oracle

    [font="Verdana"]Oh, we are back to the unsubstantiated claims. 😀

    One thing to bear in mind: Oracle is far more complex to set-up and administer from my personal experience than is...

  • RE: Bulk INsert with {LF} Row Delimiter

    [font="Verdana"]have you tried using char(10) as the row terminator?[/font]

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    [font="Verdana"]I suddenly got this mental image of a similar board for GPs, and the questions that get posted...

    "Urgent! Urgent! Urgent! I have someone in my office who is sneezing!...

  • RE: trigger reading multiple tables

    [font="Verdana"]You're probably right as to why your trigger isn't working. I suggest you remove the joins.

    Also, look at a different solution than a trigger. A trigger is the...

  • RE: using datetime variable - performance hit?

    [font="Verdana"]Invent a time machine. Sell me one. :D[/font]

  • RE: view or select statement...which is better?

    [font="Verdana"]Other than the issue of the "order by" already mentioned (with or without extra coffee), there's are a couple of other minor differences between using views and not.

    You can create...

  • RE: migration from sqlserver to oracle

    [font="Verdana"]Some good answers. I would only add a couple of caveats.

    SQL Server (by default: yes, you can change it) is case insensitive, case preserving. That means if you...

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