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  • RE: How many indexes should you have?

    "As many as are necessary, but no more."

    Indexes are used to speed up queries but have the downside that they may slow down inserts and updates. Hence you need to...

  • RE: Calculate Month Diffrence

    I'm not sure I've understand what you want here.

    If you want all records greater than a month old, why isn't 2008-01-03 23:48:36.024 in your result set?

  • RE: delete records in sql without entry in transaction log

    If you are deleting an entire table you could use TRUNCATE TABLE, which only logs the page deallocations rather than having an entry for each row deleted. I'm not aware...

  • RE: RANK or ROW_NUMBER Question

    I think you need to do something like

    select * from (

    SELECT a.Employeeid, a.FromDate, a.ToDate,

    ROW_NUMBER() OVER(PARTITION BY a.Employeeid ORDER BY a.FromDate) AS sick_sequence

    FROM #tempsick a

    join #tempsick b on...

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Derek Dongray (1/30/2009)


    ...and the answer to what you were thinking is "probably about 5 hours spread over 3 days". 🙂

    And one of the (many) things I learned from The Thread...

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Do I get a prize for reading every post on The Thread before posting?

    ...and the answer to what you were thinking is "probably about 5 hours spread over 3 days"....

  • RE: Celebration

    Congratulations! I don't remember how I found this site, but I'm glad I did. Keep up the good work.

  • RE: The Cost of Reboots

    majorbloodnock (1/26/2009)


    I can easily see this being a parallel scenario. Company docks money from employee for reboots, employee bills company for loss of earnings when reboot was caused by a...

  • RE: The Set-Based Limit

    Jeff Moden (1/23/2009)


    Everything else sounds pretty copasetic.

    That's the first time in many years I've have to go and look up the definition of a word because I had absolutely no...

  • RE: Slack SQL Server

    majorbloodnock (1/23/2009)


    Excellent. Good article. Pity it was too late for me to have used.....

    A couple of years too late for me too, but mine was a bit simpler 🙂

    My 'wish...

  • RE: Secure Cell Phones

    kgayda (1/21/2009)


    ...removing the battery...

    Haven't you then got a paperweight instead of a phone?

  • RE: Secure Cell Phones

    Steve Jones - Editor (1/20/2009)


    I've love to have a secure cell phone, something that couldn't be scanned or eavesdropped on, but at $3,000+ a copy, I'm not sure I'd get...

  • RE: Surface Possibilities

    Steve Jones - Editor (1/21/2009)


    Wings? Paul McCartney? Was he in Led Zeppelin? 😀

    No, he just thought Robert Plant should be...as reported here!

    BTW, billboards in the UK are currently reminding people...

  • RE: Surface Possibilities

    eric.gunn (1/19/2009)


    I was recently checking out some of the new HP home computers with touch and my first thought was cool. After a minute it changed to cool, but...

  • RE: More Tips for New (and old) DBAs

    Excellent article!

    The first two recommendations probably apply to anyone providing a service (which is probably most people!). I've known far to many situations where being asked for someone resulted...

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