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RE: Need help in creating dynamic fields

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Frank, I've read your article and I am a bit confused. I accept the performance overhead of dynamic SQL (not caching query plans) and the security aspects (giving specific permissions on tables rather than just exec permissions on procedures). However, I'm not sure whether in this case you are making us aware of the pitfalls […]

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2003-05-16

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RE: GROUP BY & SUM question

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The "outer join" solution shouldn't have been necessary. All sales-detail product id's should have been in the products master table making the outer join unnecessary. Seems to me there are referential integrity problems and orphaned sales-detail rows somewhere.

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2003-05-15

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RE: Auto Close and Auto Shrink - Just Don't

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For production system, I agree, just say no. Manage space usage based on the business needs (slow time) and don't rely on Auto Shrink. I've found some "production" systems such as Crystal Reports that use MSDE with auto close enabled. so review every install, and do an inventory of all your production system if you […]

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2003-05-06

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