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  • RE: The Price of SQL Server

    What's a fair price? We're about to find out later today as we have a call with MS themselves 😀 We'll have upwards of 24 procs on 3 machines and...

  • RE: Be Prepared

    Speak of Murphy and he will appear. Right here is a good example. No backups. Corrupt file. Just the same as flat tire, no spare.

    This is something of a sad...

  • RE: Get Out of Your Comfort Zone!

    Makes me think a little of that interview last night on the Colbert Report where he's interviewing this correspondent for the TV show 60 Minutes. She was over in Helmond...

  • RE: Handling Inconvenient Requests

    dwilliams-766857 (12/8/2009)


    Default, by nature, is to help out.

    I also use the "I'll do it but then you owe me" routine. I may not take them up on it but it...

  • RE: Afraid of Help

    nelsonj-902869 (10/15/2009)


    So if presented with a task that I have no experience with, I go to my library of books, or BOL, or a Help file first, then go to...

  • RE: When does execution stop?

    And even then it's a bit tricky. Say you're trying to execute 10 T-SQL commands and you get errors on a couple of them. As you say the lines #'s...

  • RE: Switch to Read Committed Snapshot?

    Here is the Select statement execution plan attached.

    Ken

  • RE: Switch to Read Committed Snapshot?

    Yes, this little update is within a larger transaction that does a lot of updates elsewhere in the DB. But it need not be I think.

    Begin Tran

    Update StartTime

    Do many updates...

  • RE: Switch to Read Committed Snapshot?

    Update statement is:

    Update RollupHistory Set Status = 1, RollUpEndTime = GetDate()

    Where CallCenterId = @CallCenterId And RollupSubmissionTime = @RollupSubmissionTime

    Indexes are on Status and another on CallcenterId + RollUpSubmissionTime.

    Seems like indexes with...

  • RE: Switch to Read Committed Snapshot?

    Thanks Matt but it's staring me right in the face. It's The RollupHistory table that's referenced in the view. That table is being updated within a transaction in another proc.

    Ken

  • RE: Documenting Database Code: Structured Headers

    Andy Lennon (6/30/2009)


    i'm terrible with documentation. i put descriptions into procedures in a comment block up top and have additional brief descriptions for the business functionality of discrret sections within...

  • RE: Going Native

    sknox (6/19/2009)


    Okay, seriously, the personality trait I look for is interest. If my protege has got the interest to want to grow and learn, I would recommend scripting -- and...

  • RE: Which Rows in Cursor?

    Sorry Bruce, Jeff had asked how much data 1 of the procs inside the loop would operate on. That would be thousands. The size of the cursor itself is really...

  • RE: Which Rows in Cursor?

    Thanks for looking at this. I'll take a look at table vars and error handling. These procs operate on anywhere from several hundred rows to a worst case scenario of...

  • RE: Which Rows in Cursor?

    Well, we have an Asp.Net page that queues a row into a table for processing whenever a user makes a change to mapping data for a call center. When they...

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