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How to filter non-existing records in SQL

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Introduction Developing predefined reports in addition to all the ad-hoc queries have been a part of my daily activities. Often I find my stakeholders asking me to prepare reports in which they want to know something that has never happened. It might sound strange, but yeah, that's what their point of concern is all about. […]

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RE: Using IDENTITY_INSERT with linked servers

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I agree that this should be done with stored procedures. It's to maintain a total of four environments (live, uat, sys-test and dev), so I was hoping to have the SP's on a single environment rather than having to maintain the same SP's in four places. I guess it's not the end of the world […]

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2003-07-29

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RE: Best practice when to use an index

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Hi Hans, quote: Well, don't get me wrong. I won't, your opinion is very welcome! What a nice coincidence, someone else replied to this article http://qa.sqlservercentral.com/columnists/awarren/worstpracticesnotusingprimarykeysandclusteredindex.asp today. I'm going to read this first, before going any further Cheers, Frank

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2003-07-10

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RE: tempdb log ig growing

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I am afraid this is not the case, because the tempdb itself is not growing. It started today from 300Mb for data and 500Mb for log. Now it has 300Mb for data AND 8Gb for log. Just in one working day! I am affraid it will eat the whole disk before the work time is […]

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2003-07-07

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