[dba-SQLServer] Contiguous Time Periods

To be honest, I scanned the whole thing quickly, thinking the whole time about the validation 
function that you wrote / helped write.

I'm thinking that this is about doing millions of records where you need the speed of SQL Server to 
get it to work at all.

John W. Colby
www.ColbyConsulting.com

On 1/11/2011 11:53 AM, Gustav Brock wrote:
> Hi John
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> Thanks, this is always an interesting topic, but I don't understand why he waits so long introducing the option of using the id of the previous time recording as the foreign key in a self-referencing table. And by using dates only in favour of timestamps, he enables all sorts of errors which could be cut off if time was included.
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> But I'm not a T-SQL guy and probably never will be. I prefer to keep this sort of mechanics outside the database and not write anything until properly validated.
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> /gustav
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