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A: Values larger than 1/3 of a buffer page cannot be indexed

Evan CarrollYou have an UNIQUE index on (content, ref_id), called editor_contentmodel_content_2192f49c_uniq "editor_contentmodel_content_2192f49c_uniq" UNIQUE CONSTRAINT, btree (content, ref_id) I'm not sure why this there to begin with. So let's step back and address what this does. This makes sure that ...

Gosh damn. I'm this bad at explaining this. =(
 
3:45 AM
@ypercubeᵀᴹ Good job he's on holiday
 
 
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8:39 AM
gitlab should have just come to the heap. Muppets
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11:48 AM
@Philᵀᴹ Yes, why not.
 
12:12 PM
@PaulWhite - congratulations on your betrothal.
 
12:26 PM
@ypercubeᵀᴹ: What can char_length(X) < length(X) mean in MySQL? In reference to the latest update to this
 
@AndriyM char_length: characters, length: bytes
 
So if the string is a column name and all characters appear to be "normal" (Latin letters (without accents), an underscore, a digit), why could there be more bytes than chars?
 
I suppose one of the characters is not ascii.
we'll have to dig into the column_name to find out.
 
@ypercubeᵀᴹ Not sure if we should but your suggestion really makes much sense. Perhaps we should just point out the difference, explain the likely implication and leave the digging to the OP.
Only the question is now such a mess
 
hello everyone
 
12:39 PM
Hi @Lamak
Has anyone found you yesterday?
 
@AndriyM sadly, my work
 
@Lamak Ah, not the best outcome, perhaps. Still, I trust you haven't been lost since :)
 
12:52 PM
@AndriyM I trust myself too ;)
 
Wery vell
 
@AndriyM I've undeleted my answer and added what's wrong.
 
@ypercubeᵀᴹ Great, saw that, thanks. I'm cleaning up the question, flagging the comment thread and I'm done with that post for the time being.
 
1:08 PM
Happy to provide with 20+ comments to flag ;)
 
Oh no, I'm not going to flag everyone of them. I'll just make sure my flag comment is crystal clear.
 
Oh 313, no need to ask.
 
Yeah, measly 313.
I'm not a flag maniac (yet).
 
10 hours ago, by Paul White
@ypercubeᵀᴹ Good job he's on holiday
 
1:21 PM
I seem to be the only one with 1K flags (besides the guy above ;)
got the marshal badge 2 days ago.
 
Not very active as an answerer or asker. But has been 2 years and 3 months here, more than on any of the other sites where he's got more rep (except for Android, where it's 2 yr 3 mn as well). But, good gracious, registered in 147 communities! So enthusiastic.
@ypercubeᵀᴹ Is there a ranking page on that or did you just use SEDE to find out?
 
@AndriyM you get the marshal badge at 500. Only 9 have it
 
@ypercubeᵀᴹ No, I mean, how did you find out you and Paul were the only two people with 1K+ flags?
 
by looking at the 9 profiles. I don't think there's a ranking page.
 
Ah, you just went through the list of those who had Marshal, I see now, thanks.
 
1:50 PM
The "Userscripts for Stack Exchange" section of the webpage advertised in his profile may be a hint to how he may have got the Marshal.
 
@swasheck TIL Polybase can handle gzipped files. Must try it ...
 
2:06 PM
@AndriyM the offending character was the BOM
 
@ypercubeᵀᴹ it's easy to raise helpful flags when you are the one who can tell if they are hellpful or not
 
@dezso As easy as patting yourself on the back, you mean ;)
 
@ypercubeᵀᴹ if 1088 counts, then dba.stackexchange.com/users/6219/dezso?tab=activity
@ypercubeᵀᴹ ouch
 
2:21 PM
Who's the former biologist in channel? I remember someone saying they couldn't keep dissecting whatever animal they studied
 
@dezso nice. we were talking about flags
 
Last night the teenager was asking for help on genetic stuff and I was wracking my brain on who I could ask because I know F all about that stuff
 
2:45 PM
Today a customer couldn't change inventory on a product any more, [Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][SQL Server]Arithmetic overflow error converting numeric to data type numeric.
turns out the inventory on that item was currently valued at 9 696 506 928 381 040,00 so an extra addition made the type overflow
 
is your customer an intra-galactic warehouse?
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@ypercubeᵀᴹ Current inventory was 6 fences
turns out it was a bug in the weighed averages calculation that, given enough time, lead to some extreme values
but yes, the fences were valued at 1.5 quadrillion each
I went to see their accountant and asked "how did you not see that"
the answer was "inventory valuation has been off since the beginning, we don't look at those reports any more"
¯\(°_o)/¯
 
3:01 PM
@billinkc mice
those were mice
@ypercubeᵀᴹ oopsie, I need straighter eyes
(I honestly remembered I had 1k+ flags, so someone might have stolen some from me)
paranoid mode on
@TomV how disappointing
 
3:36 PM
@ypercubeᵀᴹ That's a bommer.
 
4:03 PM
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Q: Community Promotion Ads - 2017

Grace NoteIt is a bit late into this new year, being that we're already in the second month, but we are now cycling the Community Promotion Ads for 2017! What are Community Promotion Ads? Community Promotion Ads are community-vetted advertisements that will show up on the main site, in the right sidebar....

 
This answer really needs more recognition:
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A: mysql update query error Code 1054 unknown column in field list

ypercubeᵀᴹThe error message is quite clear. The table krneki_2 does not have a column named id_naslov. Unless there is some corruption in system tables or a bug, there is no question about that. So we have to eliminate several possibilities why this appears: There are mismatches between the CREATE TAB...

 
@AndriyM a few more flags for you to raise ;)
 
@ypercubeᵀᴹ Ah yes, thank you :)
I guess I'll wait till it's all over
 
Under Rick Jones answer as well. The comments by a_vlad (and mine) should be obsolete, once the OP decides that the problem is soilved
 
4:20 PM
@AndriyM more recognition successfully added
 
@dezso Good!
 
answer accepted. Go and flag them all!
 
@ypercubeᵀᴹ I think Rick Joines (also known as Rick James) simply needs to delete his answer :)
 
I like how you mock my typos with more typos!
 
There's something satisfying about linking bobby-tables.com for people
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4:48 PM
Lost my gold badge closing hammer virginity today
 
@Philᵀᴹ Was it at least a good one?
 
5:01 PM
@AndriyM There should be a flag option for needs more recognition, indeed.
 
@MDCCL A waving flag.
 
 
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6:03 PM
Hey @dezso good flag but there's nothing to substantiate it right now. Will keep an eye on it
 
@jcolebrand yeah, that's why I didn't flag it as spam
and thanks again
 
Aye. Just hard to correlate so we'll give it a few hours/day
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Q: Community Promotion Ads - 2017

Grace NoteIt is a bit late into this new year, being that we're already in the second month, but we are now cycling the Community Promotion Ads for 2017! What are Community Promotion Ads? Community Promotion Ads are community-vetted advertisements that will show up on the main site, in the right sidebar....

Room awareness!! ^^^^^^
 
I don't know much about SSRS, but I don't understand how you guys are getting confused. — Dan Whaley 1 hour ago
s/but/so/
 
How long, approximately does it take to import a 90mb sql file into a sql database?
2.50ghz processor
 
@FelixRosén seriously or funny answer?
 
6:09 PM
haha seriously
sorry
 
What's the disk size, how dumb is the data? Are we doing a raw import or is it being processed?
A raw import should take seconds on a modern computer, or less.
 
@jcolebrand SQL Fiddle still hasn't responded to my email offering financial and or community support to stabilize the system so...
 
Processed, not quite sure about the rest
 
I've done raw imports into MSSQL (not MySQL) and it's taken like 1s for 30+MB of data
If you're processing each row as you import, that could take longer, we would need to know a lot more about the process involved
Are you looking to determine if yours is breaking?
 
So we are talking about minutes/seconds?
Yeah!
 
6:10 PM
Or are you looking to gauge something for long term impact?
 
been waiting for 15 mins
 
@FelixRosén raw import shouldn't be very cpu bound, rather IO bound, processed is way to broad without knowing the processing you are doing
 
Sounds like you're hitting an issue with some sort of configuration.
If it were MS SQL I could speak to a few more issues, but I don't play with enough MySQL to speak confidently
 
@FelixRosén google sp_whoisactive check what it's doing and/or if it's waiting
then post back
 
Alright, thx! I'll terminate it then.
 
6:11 PM
Is this all happening on a local machine or are you running this across the web to an Amazon ice style disk?
 
@FelixRosén Don't terminate before you did at least some minor investigation into the root cause
 
If you're pushing this through a web api to a slow machine with even slower storage, it could take that long
 
@FelixRosén I guess :)
 
We just need more details, so ... feel free to write a question, if properly done this will help others
 
6:12 PM
The definition of OK can be very flexible I understand :)
 
haha yeah, as I said. Im at a lost here. Didnt want to ask a to dumb of a question, lol!
 
@FelixRosén check activity with whoisactive, it may be blocked, it may be running an update/processing task, apart from that it's just guessing (or killing and restarting to run into the same issue)
 
When i ran myphpadmin through xampp it first complained about the size of the file, it worked when i did it throught the commandline though. But now i got wamp and tried to import it through myphpadmin there instead, and its only loading (taking up like 30% of my cpu). Maybe I should cancel it and do it through the command line?
 
@FelixRosén Oh, not SQL Server, nevermind then :)
 
FROM command syntax error :( Is there any possibility of OUTER APPLY doesn't works in MS Query on excel files (as the data base)?? I ask because I've tried to do the simplest queries and get the same error — Julio Maldonado Henríquez 57 mins ago
Anyone know what MSQuery with Excel means?
What is the db? The Excel file?
 
6:17 PM
@ypercubeᵀᴹ yep, it's just an interface to connect to a odbc source and provide a query to load into excel
 
@TomV So, in theory it could be any database? (it seems it's just Execl files in this case)
 
VtC unclear :)
@ypercubeᵀᴹ yep
Though I would expect the usage of "sheets" instead of "tables" when talking about excel as a database
> You can use Microsoft Query to retrieve data from external sources.
where external is pretty broad
 
The first comment on the q confused me yetsrday and I assumed it was SQL Server.
 
@ypercubeᵀᴹ He might be connecting to Paradox fwiw
 
One way to find out would be to run something like select @@version;
 
6:22 PM
I consider it unclear until he responds to your comment
 
Will either give back a version or an error (which is often equally good to find out what they are connecting to)
 
@ypercubeᵀᴹ and you end up with would you like to continue this discussion in chat?
Hi there, MS query can connect to a number of data sources, Paradox, SQL Server, Text files whatever. Are you using MS Query to connect to any of those, or to connect to another Excel file? — Tom V 14 secs ago
In any case, he's in for a headache if he's using MS query to load data into excel files
wait until he finds out SQL Server dates aren't recognized as dates in Excel until you cast them to datetime :)
 
@TomV Is that for DATE type or datetime as well?
 
@ypercubeᵀᴹ I successfully tried to forget the details
 
7:10 PM
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Q: Dates not recognized as dates in pivot table pulling directly from SQL Server

Michael KMy pivot pulls from an external data source with a date column. Excel doesn't see this column as a date and the 'Format Cells' option panel doesn't change how the dates are displayed. The cell data is left-aligned, suggesting a string rather than a date. I have tried cast(myvar as date) and conve...

 
the silly question of the day
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Q: Why do major international universities still have courses in languages other than English?

JonathanReezAs an example ETH Zurich, which is arguably one of the best universities in Europe, still educates Bachelor's students in German: Please note: the Bachelor’s degree programmes begin in German. In the second and third years of the programmes, some of the courses may take place in English. Th...

 
Lol, Skeptics.SE -- 2 minutes 75 upvotes. skeptics.stackexchange.com/q/37056/3835
DBA.SE -- 2 months, 75 upvotes.
 
8:07 PM
@EvanCarroll you are mostly active on the postgres tags — votes here are in line with traffic and SQL Server and MySQL posts get a lot more votes I think
 
That's a fair point and totally accurate.
We need more PostgreSQL users to FIGHT THE BORG. =P
In fairness, I use Google Chrome RSS feed. So I'm not that active on this site for anything else. Specifically, I'm only tagged when something pops up with postgresql, or postgis.
 
you can probably take this with a pinch of salt: db-engines.com/en/ranking_trend
 
Yea, seen it. I have a lot of problems with the way they judge popularity. But, we'll see how those trend lines hold up. Even using those metrics.
 
I have to admit I am biassed — I love postgres. It's great to see it slowly adding enterprise features too
@EvanCarroll yup, no crystal ball here :)
 
I wish they would integrate Github.
 
8:16 PM
@JackDouglas Agreed, votes are in line with the audience/traffic, I only upvote questions really obviously well written or difficult in subjects I know nothing about
in SQL Server I get "hey that's a good question" while in for ex postgres I am "meh, no idea if that's obvious or not"
 
exactly
 
I upvote any question I answer that I don't have to ask for clarification over. My standards are a lot lower.
 
@EvanCarroll That too
 
I'm like.. Well, I'm 90% sure what he's talking about .. HAVE AN UPVOTE, CHAP. REPRODUCE AND SPREAD LIKE WILDFIRE.
 
@EvanCarroll If it's worth answering it's probably worth upvoting
 
8:19 PM
It always confused me why people didn't upvote questions more often that they were answering. I think that should be worked into the UI of the site more.
You could imagine a Submit Answer, with a Submit Answer and Upvote Question button visible next to it if you haven't upvoted yet.
 
Apr 5 '16 at 21:25, by Tom V
@wBob I can't think of a single question I answered but didn't UV (unless Paul proves me wrong) but if I think it's worth answering it's worthy of an upvote
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I tend to live by that rule, with one or two exceptions I remember where I thought "I'll help that guy out" and then VtC as too localized anyway
 
Certainly there are exceptions.
I think likewise the whole Chosen Answer without up vote needs to be rethought.
 
@EvanCarroll Not sure, the answer could solve the problem and still be crap, so there could (theoretically) be a situation where you even accept and downvote
 
@TomV The old, "Have you tried restarting" solution?
 
Not necessarily, just a wall of code without explanation doesn't help anyone but the OP, so that might be accepted but might not get an upvote for being a good answer
The irony of it all is that I remember posting an answer to a question just to help the guy out, and then VtC, and my crappy answer got some upvotes probably from being in the review queue
None of that means the system is flawed, I had to learn that too
 
8:29 PM
Reminds me of searching for a Dynamics login issue, and seeing a suggestion to delete everything in the Users table through SQL. And seeing people say that helped them.
 
@Forrest wut :) I hope that wasn't Dynamics AX :)
I would downvote that suggestion for sure
 
Nah, NAV
@TomV Indeed
 
When I was a noob on this site, I thought the voting on individual questions had to be fair, I learned it isn't necessarily, but it still is in the long run evening out
 
@TomV Ha! It gets skewed by the questions that somehow make it into HNQ.
 
@Forrest That doesn't happen that often on our subsite
Erik, who isn't around in the room often once replied this to a meta question of mine, and his comment rightfully got more upvotes than my question
Sometimes we get lots of votes for a basic answer and sometimes we write a masterpiece to have it languish. Overall I think things balance out. If it will make you feel better you should find a really hard unanswered question and figure out a great answer. — Erik Nov 17 '15 at 0:17
 
8:43 PM
It's difficult finding really hard unanswered questions. I think I've went through every PostgreSQL question on the site.
 
@EvanCarroll At the time I tried, and failed, too. I now tend to focus on subjects that don't get a lot of attention (and I know at least something about) such as mdw, dynamics, SSRS etc
Those tags aren't upvoting magnets either, but at least they help somebody out and I try to answer in a generic way if/when possible
I never joined for the personal rep, my joy is in learning something new myself from solving other peoples problems
Which is still egoistic, but everybody does stuff mostly to benefit their selves I suppose
 
9:08 PM
I answer questions primarily so I can have people tell me how wrong I am. I find I've learned more that way than through any other method.
not that I'm wrong all the time.
 
That doesn't work for me at.. I'm never wrong.
 
@EvanCarroll Really?
 
10:06 PM
@PaulVargas as proof, he never deletes his answers ;)
 
10:25 PM
=( =(
ouch
plague of haterz tonight, quarantine needed.
 
10:44 PM
There we go I went ahead and answered that question..
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A: Name for SELECT equivalent of UPSERT

Evan CarrollIn PostgreSQL we have a name it INSERT ... RETURNING. You can use this form in a CTE to obtain the effect you want.. CREATE TABLE foo ( foo serial, bar int ); WITH t1 AS ( SELECT x FROM generate_series(1,10) AS t(x) ), t2 AS ( INSERT INTO foo (bar) SELECT x FROM t1 WHERE NOT EXIST...

How long until the borg hunts it down and tries to destroy it
actually there is better way
 
11:15 PM
@TomV personally, I look at every question. I don't have much time at the minute, but I used to answer ones I could, others I found interesting and didn't know I'd research and answer. Except the MySQL ones. @ypercubeᵀᴹ answers them ❤️
 

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