How much time do you spend developing your career? Are you actively looking to improve your professional skills? Andy Warren takes a look at how you can focus yourself and a few ideas for your employer as well.
2006-07-11
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Another little bit of career advice, this time from longtime author Jeffrey Yao who gives you some pointeres on what you should know for your next job interview.
2007-10-12 (first published: 2006-07-10)
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Resets the identity seeds for all user tables to one plus the current maximum value of the identity field. Revised 24 August 2010.
2010-08-25 (first published: 2006-07-06)
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Software developers constantly need to learn about new technologies, products and methodologies. Think about what sort of programming you were doing 5 or 10 years ago. If you have been developing software that long, you will, no doubt, be working on very different systems now than you were then.
2006-07-05
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This is an example of retrieving WMIC results using the xp_cmdshell proc, and inserting the results into a table.Specifically, this script retrieves disk info from the LogicalDisk class, but WMIC provides thousands of other properties. WMIC does require it be ran from a Windows 2003 server, but can query other Windows 2000 servers when executed […]
2006-08-04 (first published: 2006-07-02)
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This is an example to overcome short comings when using BCP to create a 'proper' CSV file. The view vw_Customers_RAW is used in order to provide a method of creating the column heading row and to enclose columns with embedded comma with double quotes, which are not options in BCP. There are more generic methods […]
2006-07-03 (first published: 2006-06-29)
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This article provides a guide for physical storage design and gives recommendations and trade-offs for physical hardware design and file architecture.
2006-06-29
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If I had a penny for every person who said "usability is just common sense", I'd have a pretty reasonable stack of pennies – maybe 30 or so. Clearly I'm not going to be able to retire on this, but at least it demonstrates that many people have misconceptions about how usable interfaces are designed.
2006-06-27
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How do you go about looking for someone to fill a DBA position? SQL Server guru and head of the Colorado Springs PASS Chapter, Chris Shaw, brings us a look at how an experienced manager goes about filling DBA positions.
2006-06-19
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Here is a MIME64 encoder function written entirely in T-SQL!© 2006 Peter Larsson, Developer Workshop, all rights reservedAs long as the copyright notice is visible within the function declarationand you include a note in the documentation of your system that thesefunctions are written by me, you may use these functions for free of charge.If you […]
2006-11-09 (first published: 2006-06-15)
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I have this code on SQL Server 2022. What happens when it runs all at once?
DROP TABLE IF EXISTS dbo.Commission GO CREATE TABLE dbo.Commission (id INT NOT NULL IDENTITY(1,1) CONSTRAINT CommissionPK PRIMARY KEY , salesperson VARCHAR(20) , commission VARCHAR(20) ) GO INSERT dbo.Commission ( salesperson, commission) VALUES ( 'Brian', 12 ), ( 'Brian', 'None' ) GOSee possible answers