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How long do the parts of my job take?
When you schedule a job in SQL Server, you can see how long the job took by right clicking on the job and then clicking View History. If you want to see how long each step in the job took, … Continue reading
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Stored Procedures don’t necessarily stop at an error
I normally expect precedence to save me in my stored procedures. If I have six statements and the third ones fails, I expect the fourth through sixth not to run. Boy, was I wrong. Normally I test my stored procedures … Continue reading
A weird result from IN (SELECT
I was recently building a query that referenced a SQL Server 2000 database on a linked server. I’m using SQL Server 2008 R2 on my end and I’m used to Intellisense suggesting the columns in the table I’m querying. Unfortunately, … Continue reading
Who’s data is it?
Recently I needed to import some data from a flatfile into SQL Server. As I was creating the table for it, I tried to determine what the data actually was. There wasn’t very good documentation for it so I played … Continue reading
Oracle to SQL Server
It can be hard getting back to blogging after some time off, but here goes. I moved in March/April and I’ll be unpacking for a long time, but I do want to be blogging it is just hard to find … Continue reading
Tool Choice
I’ve been wanting to set up a portion of my site as a shared repository for my friends and I to post recipes and talk about cooking. My immediate thought was to use a wiki because wikis are all about … Continue reading
Database Design
One of the things I like best about working with computers is designing systems, whether that’s programs, databases, interfaces or all three and more. Lately I’ve been working primarily on databases and I thought I’d talk a little about database … Continue reading
Column Naming
When you’re designing your tables it is important to keep track of the names you’re using for the columns. Don’t just name the ID columns ID. Name them so you’ll know what table the ID belongs to. For example, if … Continue reading
Redundancy
There are certain types of redundancy that are good in the IT world: Backups, failover servers, recovery plans and the like. Most redundancy however, is bad. In the programming world, bad redundancy comes in the form of repeated code instead … Continue reading
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