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  • Reply To: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    SPAM has officially spread to the messages queue. In the past 24 hours, I've gotten 3 messages from the same user that look very spammy.

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    August 13, 2026 at 11:40 am

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  • Reply To: Partitioning a table with TEXTIMAGE_ON option

    In fact, it wouldn't let me use TEXTIMAGE_ON at all. Not even on the partition scheme.

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    August 12, 2026 at 4:56 pm

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  • Reply To: Partitioning a table with TEXTIMAGE_ON option

    Yeah, I tried creating the table with the TEXTIMAGE_ON a separate file group. It failed spectacularly (ERROR: invalid partition scheme specified). And I don't trust the AI response that says...

    Brandie Tarvin, MCITP Database AdministratorLiveJournal Blog: http://brandietarvin.livejournal.com/[/url]On LinkedIn!, Google+, and Twitter.Freelance Writer: ShadowrunLatchkeys: Nevermore, Latchkeys: The Bootleg War, and Latchkeys: Roscoes in the Night are now available on Nook and Kindle.

    August 12, 2026 at 4:39 pm

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  • Reply To: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    I don't know how many of you have seen this, but OUCH. True, funny, painful, true.

    https://www.stvn.sh/writing/programming-still-sucks-fqffhyp

    Brandie Tarvin, MCITP Database AdministratorLiveJournal Blog: http://brandietarvin.livejournal.com/[/url]On LinkedIn!, Google+, and Twitter.Freelance Writer: ShadowrunLatchkeys: Nevermore, Latchkeys: The Bootleg War, and Latchkeys: Roscoes in the Night are now available on Nook and Kindle.

    August 6, 2026 at 4:43 pm

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  • Reply To: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Customer: We've been told index maintenance is taking too long because we have hundreds of millions of records in some tables on this VLDB. Data is ITD, so cannot be...

    Brandie Tarvin, MCITP Database AdministratorLiveJournal Blog: http://brandietarvin.livejournal.com/[/url]On LinkedIn!, Google+, and Twitter.Freelance Writer: ShadowrunLatchkeys: Nevermore, Latchkeys: The Bootleg War, and Latchkeys: Roscoes in the Night are now available on Nook and Kindle.

    August 6, 2026 at 2:33 pm

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  • Reply To: SQL 2025 SSMS Nonsense

    deubel_m wrote:

    No, you don't need SSIS installed with your SQL Server rather install SSMS with the SSIS part.

    I did.

    When I ran the installer, it didn't give me the screen I've...

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    July 22, 2026 at 11:44 am

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  • Reply To: SQL 2025 SSMS Nonsense

    While I agree that might solve the problem, I do not find it comforting that in a world where hackers exploit security holes and MS itself doesn't want people using...

    Brandie Tarvin, MCITP Database AdministratorLiveJournal Blog: http://brandietarvin.livejournal.com/[/url]On LinkedIn!, Google+, and Twitter.Freelance Writer: ShadowrunLatchkeys: Nevermore, Latchkeys: The Bootleg War, and Latchkeys: Roscoes in the Night are now available on Nook and Kindle.

    July 21, 2026 at 3:29 pm

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  • Reply To: Implicit Conversions Cripple SQL Server

    Not sure why the last comment was removed as SPAM given its relevance to the actual article.

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    July 21, 2026 at 12:01 pm

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  • Reply To: PowerBI Question - Data Sources

    I appreciate the answer, but I'm not sure that answers my question. Thank you, though.

    Brandie Tarvin, MCITP Database AdministratorLiveJournal Blog: http://brandietarvin.livejournal.com/[/url]On LinkedIn!, Google+, and Twitter.Freelance Writer: ShadowrunLatchkeys: Nevermore, Latchkeys: The Bootleg War, and Latchkeys: Roscoes in the Night are now available on Nook and Kindle.

    July 20, 2026 at 8:17 pm

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  • Reply To: Implicit Conversions Cripple SQL Server

    sean redmond wrote:

    Does this mean that if we are using .NET that every single text field has to be Unicode because .Net uses Unicode by default?

    That would be the wrong takeaway...

    Brandie Tarvin, MCITP Database AdministratorLiveJournal Blog: http://brandietarvin.livejournal.com/[/url]On LinkedIn!, Google+, and Twitter.Freelance Writer: ShadowrunLatchkeys: Nevermore, Latchkeys: The Bootleg War, and Latchkeys: Roscoes in the Night are now available on Nook and Kindle.

    July 17, 2026 at 12:23 pm

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  • Reply To: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Steve, if you moved your funds to traditional IRAs, then you have a lot of pre-tax money (potentially) with RMDs (Required Minimum Distributions) coming up in your retirement.

    RMDs work on...

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    June 8, 2026 at 7:09 pm

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  • Reply To: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    I have decided that for me, if I can manage it, retirement looks like me transitioning to a lower paid job for a year or two so I can convert...

    Brandie Tarvin, MCITP Database AdministratorLiveJournal Blog: http://brandietarvin.livejournal.com/[/url]On LinkedIn!, Google+, and Twitter.Freelance Writer: ShadowrunLatchkeys: Nevermore, Latchkeys: The Bootleg War, and Latchkeys: Roscoes in the Night are now available on Nook and Kindle.

    June 8, 2026 at 12:41 pm

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  • Reply To: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    AI has lied to me quite often about SQL Server things because it scrapes the internet and picks up the bad answers as well as the good. I've actually had...

    Brandie Tarvin, MCITP Database AdministratorLiveJournal Blog: http://brandietarvin.livejournal.com/[/url]On LinkedIn!, Google+, and Twitter.Freelance Writer: ShadowrunLatchkeys: Nevermore, Latchkeys: The Bootleg War, and Latchkeys: Roscoes in the Night are now available on Nook and Kindle.

    June 2, 2026 at 7:31 pm

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  • Reply To: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Sooooo... Last post I got this error when I hit Submit.

    "Error: Slow down; you move too fast."

    Then it bounced me to the start of the thread instead of the last...

    Brandie Tarvin, MCITP Database AdministratorLiveJournal Blog: http://brandietarvin.livejournal.com/[/url]On LinkedIn!, Google+, and Twitter.Freelance Writer: ShadowrunLatchkeys: Nevermore, Latchkeys: The Bootleg War, and Latchkeys: Roscoes in the Night are now available on Nook and Kindle.

    May 11, 2026 at 12:09 pm

    #4827105

  • Reply To: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Dennis Jensen wrote:

    Hey I know we mostly just talk about SQL stuff here but I thought I would ask a job oriented question. Does anyone know anyone that could use a...

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    May 11, 2026 at 11:58 am

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