Sample Chapters

Technical Article

RE: Joining surrogate table entries into single field

  • Reply

This is a really interesting question! Here's how to do it without the cursor, but it still uses 1 temp table (will need 2 if Table 2 doesn't have an identity column). Script's to create test data at the bottom. These loops are super cheap...checking 1=1 is 50% of the costs! ---------------------------------- Declare @iID int, […]

You rated this post out of 5. Change rating

2003-07-08

1 reads

Technical Article

RE: SQL Profiler Trace

  • Reply

Have you looked at installing the SQL Server Client tools (including Profiler) locally? I often review Profiler trace files that are sent to me. If you also have SQL Server installed, you can load a trace file into profiler and save it as a table for additional query capabilities as cppwiz mentioned.

You rated this post out of 5. Change rating

2003-07-08

Technical Article

RE: SQL Profiler Trace

  • Reply

What about running the trace on the server, storing the results in a table and querying the results from the client using Excel or Access ? Then you only need MDAC loaded on the client and not Profiler. Check out this article for more information on how to run the trace on the server:

You rated this post out of 5. Change rating

2003-07-07

Technical Article

RE: Automatic table replacement

  • Reply

For the first problem. Creating 'linked' tables should work. The procedures might be more efficient since the SQL server engine is more powerful. However, you do introduce network overhead, so this might reduce the gain. Another problem might arise if you are using complex, updatable queries in Access. Some threads have been around that report […]

You rated this post out of 5. Change rating

2003-07-02

Technical Article

RE: Site Menu not working with Opera

  • Reply

I think you should consider a complete redesign of the navigation menu or maybe even the whole site (but don't you dare touch that logo!). That would spice things up! And for God's sake move on to asp.NET! The site and especially the forums could be running up to 80% faster /Tomi

You rated this post out of 5. Change rating

2003-06-19

Blogs

Simple Talks Episode 7

By

The season 1, seventh episode of Simple Talks is out. Check it out, with...

A New Word: the McFly effect

By

the McFly Effect – n. the phenomenon of observing your parents interact with people...

Key mappings in Visual Studio Code

By

At a recent conference I was asked how I executed code during my presentation....

Read the latest Blogs

Forums

7 sept, scheduled book

By philip.scott

Comments posted to this topic are about the item 7 sept, scheduled book

7 sept, schedlued article

By philip.scott

Comments posted to this topic are about the item 7 sept, schedlued article

6 sept, published book

By philip.scott

Comments posted to this topic are about the item 6 sept, published book

Visit the forum

Question of the Day

Azure Data Lake Storage Gen 2

Azure Data Lake Storage Gen 2 is built on ...?

See possible answers