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Brad McGehee On Being a Better DBA!

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Brad McGehee discusses the career path of a professional database administrator. Often the DBA role is thrust upon an IT professional or developer without much in the way of specific training. Growing into the role is largely a self-motivated exercise. Brad talks about the habits that successful DBAs have, focused on on-going education and working to protect their organizations data.

2007-11-15

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Adding a Lot of Seconds

When does this code work and when does it fail?

DECLARE @BaseDate DATETIME = '1900-01-01';

SELECT DATEADD(SECOND, 2147483648, @BaseDate) AS [MaxIntSecondsAdded];

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