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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    SQLRNNR (10/7/2011)


    Chad Crawford (10/7/2011)


    ... I've updated my avatar and it does slightly resemble me now.

    ...

    You might need to go back to the other avatar - this is a...

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Speaking of the PASS Summit, I'm going to try and get a copy of Jonathan, Ted, Gail (et.al.)'s book that I can get all the threadziens to autograph as a...

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Stefan Krzywicki (10/5/2011)


    Jeff Moden (10/5/2011)


    Ninja's_RGR'us (10/5/2011)


    Jeff Moden (10/4/2011)


    GilaMonster (10/4/2011)


    Jeff Moden (10/4/2011)


    I wonder how many of us there are that try to completely ignore certs and degrees in the interview process?

    I...

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    L' Eomot Inversé (10/3/2011)


    Roughly as Paul says - I distrust people who recruit on the basis of certs rather than achievements, and in particular the people who write job specs...

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    SQL Kiwi (10/3/2011)


    Chad Crawford (10/3/2011)


    Having been granted the proper permission, I'll ask it - Why would you ignore a posting by a company looking for (among other things) a...

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Gianluca Sartori (10/3/2011)


    SQL Kiwi (10/3/2011)


    Gianluca Sartori (10/3/2011)


    Uh! Thank goodness! I was afraid he couldn't.

    Nah I think SSC is pretty good overall at not censoring questions. Very polite of...

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    SQL Kiwi (9/30/2011)


    L' Eomot Inversé (9/30/2011)


    Any such certification is a clear and absolute minus, because it risks you ending up working for an outfit that regards it as a plus.

    If...

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Jack Corbett (10/1/2011)


    Hey guys I got some really cool news today. I was awarded MVP status!

    I just hope I can honor that award the way that all the MVP's...

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    GilaMonster (9/29/2011)


    Wooooooooot!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    2 years, many, many weekends, late nights and a mad rush to the end (and I'm not even counting the ones Jonathan did), it's here

    http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/books/76296/

    It is going to be...

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Evil Kraig F (9/22/2011)


    Kiara (9/22/2011)


    L' Eomot Inversé (9/22/2011)

    You can get some mileage (but not much) on some Gaelic from Google Translate by telling it it's Irish; but because the Irish...

  • RE: Checkpoint and log records

    Thanks Ron and Paul, I appreciate your patience in seeing me through! (BTW - Bob's presentation looks great! I'm part way through, thanks for the link.)

    Thanks,

    Chad

  • RE: Checkpoint and log records

    That was awesome Paul. I've been running fn_dblog under different scenarios and what I see is very cool. I did some googling as well and found some interesting...

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    GilaMonster (9/19/2011)


    The log doesn't have pages (it has VLFs, log blocks and log records). Checkpoint will cause the log buffer to be flushed to disk (the current set of un-hardened...

  • RE: Checkpoint and log records

    I found a reference in the SQL Server 2008 Internals book (p.183) that states:

    Checkpoint operations also write log records from transactions in progress to disk becuase the cached log records...

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    GilaMonster (9/16/2011)


    The checkpoint does not write dirty pages to the log file. It writes them to the data file as long as the associated log records have been hardened in...

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