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Trigger Best Practices - Long

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I read previously that placing multiple triggers on a table is not a "best practice" since the order in which triggers fire cannot be controlled. Therefore, there is always the potential for conflicting triggers and more maintenance overhead. (Not to mention 1 trigger firing multiple triggers on another table - nesting triggers). My personal practice […]

2005-04-25

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RE: Understanding 2nd Normal Form

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hi, As I mentioned earlier I think of the surrogate key as a proxy for the real key, hence my loss of the true name "surrogate". More to your question "So, is it fair to say that Normalization rules do not apply to surrogate keys?" this is one of the old debates in database modeling. […]

2005-03-08

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Are clustered index columns actually usable in non-clustered indexes?

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I have read that non-clustered indexes are built using the clustered index keys. Does that mean that explicitly including columns present in a clustered index in the definition of a non-clustered index is redundant? Suppose I have a clustered index on TransactionDate, and want to query by (WorkOrder, TransactionDate) Should I declare the non-clustered index […]

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2005-01-20

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RE: Using Char(13) to insert a return in a note field.

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This is a shot in the dark.. but have you tried this : CHAR(13) + 'Comment 1' + ': ' + rtrim(so.comments_1) + CHAR(13) + 'Comment 2' + ': ' + rtrim(so.comments_2) + CHAR(13) + 'Comment 3' + ': ' + rtrim(so.comments_3) + CHAR(13) + 'Comment 4' +': ' + rtrim(so.comments_4) AS Record_Notes if that […]

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2005-01-12

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