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What happens when?

  • March 1, 2019
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It would be a great feature to the documentation to see what happens at what stages in the process to be better able to determine when to put pre- and post- scripts.

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  • April 17, 2019

Second this. It could be in a separate document perhaps, "for advanced users", but more explanation of what is going on under-the-hood would be really helpful for a variety of troubleshooting and development purposes.


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  • April 23, 2019

This knowledge could have saved me a lot of time debugging a seriously slow lookup. The slow lookup was caused by joining on a field that had a transformation on it essentially creating a join like this:

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LEFT OUTER JOIN [table] B ON DATEADD(S,[SECONDS],[DATE])<=B.[TODATETIME] AND DATEADD(S,[SECONDS],[DATE])>B.[FROMDATETIME]
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Not the best join predicate to be sure and not one I would ever knowingly have created.


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  • April 23, 2019

I agree. We had a custom transform that was being re-used like your example which at one point generated an nvarchar instead of an int and thus a conversion error.

Radek from TX and I had to dig very deep to find the error as the error message was very cryptic and there was no "visible" nvarchar to int conversion...


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