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RE: Database Compare

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Check out SQLCompare from Red Gate. Low priced and seems to work well. Our own Andy Warren loves it! http://qa.sqlservercentral.com/columnists/awarren/reviewofsqlcomparisonandsynchronizationtoolkit.asp Steve Jones sjones@sqlservercentral.com http://qa.sqlservercentral.com/columnists/sjones www.dkranch.net

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2003-07-02

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RE: Improving performance on joins to large tables

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quote: According to the ANSI rules (as I understand them) a WHERE clause will be applied after the ON clauses have been processed. Remember this is only the logical order (it makes a difference with outer joins), and not necessarily the physical one. E.g. if a WHERE clause references one column in a covering index, […]

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2003-06-26

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RE: Does Your SP Choke on Errors

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sunjiulu: When I execute spStaticNoStopOnFirstError in the pubs database on SQL Server 2000. Both statements in the SP execute even though the first query fails because of a constraint on the table. The second query will succeed the first time it is run. After that it will fail unless you delete all the rows it […]

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2003-06-26

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RE: Does Your SP Choke on Errors

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I believe this code: IF NOT EXISTS (SELECT 1 FROM MyTable WHERE MyField = @Value) BEGIN INSERT MyTable(My Field) VALUES (@Value) RETURN 1 END ELSE BEGIN RAISERROR('My bespoke PK Error',10,1) RETURN 0 END is still flawed (for The Error trapping purpose that was intended to) Let's suppose we are in a highly transactional environment and […]

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2003-06-26

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RE: Stored procedures for multiserver jobs

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Are you talking about Linking to multiple servers and running a stored procedure on each server, then yes you would have to have the procedure on all remote SQL Servers. An easy way to check for the procedure is to check sysobjects in the database that you should have the procedure in. Work like you […]

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2003-06-24

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