Thanks Razvan

I will check out single quotes, could be a nasty bug...

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Actually, its the first ive seen the MSDN link, and there is no problem I see it using this method also. Its like all things tech, 101 different solutions...

Great article David, I know zero about stats functions, great intro.

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Ck

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What do you see when you run DBCC LOGINFO ?  how many of the virtual logs are of status 2 (aka inuse by the engine, either checkpointing or writing...

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A tad short! 🙂 but a very interesting topic that ill have to explore a little more, thanks for the article.

Have a good xmas mate

Cheers

Ck

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hi there, very observant actually, this is a bug, we altered it just the other day to 2000, the size really blows out for large search strings... thanks again.

Chris Kempster

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Calvin - interesting script.

So the script for example tells me this:

CREATE STATISTICS [hind_119723529_2A_9A] ON [dbo].[Address] ([address_addresstype_id], [address_org_id])

is a duplicate with:

CREATE INDEX [addrtype_orgid_ix] ON [dbo].[Address]([address_addresstype_id],...

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Your not going to believe this, good ople SQL Server Yukon Beta 1 is only avail for MSDN Universal subscribers in the US (on request), us Aussies were given...

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I hear you loud and clear 🙂

Thanks for the article btw, I actually did enjoy it along with your others... I have a real admiration of Codd et al...

With the é (accented characters). No matter the language settings for the character fields (ie. accent insensitive), we found the é and other such characters wouldnt translate, so café...

For those interested, alter the final @search assignment to this:

SELECT @search = 'ISABOUT("' + @rawsearch + '" WEIGHT(.8), ' + @search2 + ' WEIGHT (.7), ' + @search + '...

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Very nice indeed, I will alter the routine with a new parameter for this option and see how it goes in test.

Thanks again.

Cheers

Ck

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(2) Yes, and updated on subsequent log shippings. Check your recovery model on your source DB, if bulk-logged ensure the selected operations are fully logged so changes...

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Ok article, not sure what I got from it though 🙂 Codd and co had his day, and the pioneer work done in and around this era was...

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The federation concept (via the linked servers and unioned views etc) is the architecture im saying is not worth the trouble. I can think of some rare cases,...