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		<title>Column DIFF between two tables</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2009 23:46:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently had a situation where I needed to compare table columns between the production table and a test/development table.  Chances are if I needed to do it someone else will to. I like using the EXCEPT SET OPERATOR.  Some people might prefer to use an OUTER JOIN to determine the column differences.  With the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Long Are Your Jobs Running?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 00:11:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today’s post is going to be short and sweet.&#160; About a year ago I put together a procedure that allows me to see the run times of all of the SQL Agent jobs on a database server.&#160; Some might argue that I got a little carried away when I added the standard deviation and variance [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Table Row Counts</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 01:09:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The easiest way to count the number of rows in a table, from the user perspective, is to use the simple COUNT(*) operator.  A more efficient method to count the number of records in a table is to use SQL Server’s system tables. Let’s start out with the naive approach and see how it performs. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Searching for Column Names</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 00:52:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How many times a day do you need to find out where a piece of data is stored in a table but don’t have a clue where to look?  If you’ve been working on the same database for the past three years you probably know where everything is. But if you work on multiple schemas, [...]]]></description>
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