Remember, do everything you can to break your system. Even if it means having to rebuild it.

Yes, I'm serious. Doing the stuff I wasn't supposed to do taught me how...

xsevensinzx (5/4/2016)

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The other organization is a different industry. I've met with the team yesterday and they were pretty impressed. I got the offer within 4 hours after being grilled by...

Okay, bookstore stuff is something I need to stick in my Briefcase. So creating a new topic over here.

Please feel free to add.

GilaMonster (5/4/2016)

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jasona.work (5/4/2016)

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GilaMonster (5/3/2016)

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jasona.work (5/3/2016)

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GilaMonster (5/3/2016)

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jasona.work (5/3/2016)

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Heh. I'm picturing a company where their "office" is nothing more than a cage in a CoLo facility that once a month or...

Grumpy DBA (5/4/2016)

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xsevensinzx (5/3/2016)

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Hey guys,

Need some advice. I got a really good job offer recently to work at a company as a DBA. I'm currently a data architect that built...

jasona.work (5/4/2016)

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GilaMonster (5/3/2016)

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jasona.work (5/3/2016)

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GilaMonster (5/3/2016)

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jasona.work (5/3/2016)

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Heh. I'm picturing a company where their "office" is nothing more than a cage in a CoLo facility that once a month or so...

Jeff Moden (5/2/2016)

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Jeff Moden (5/2/2016)

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Ed Wagner (5/2/2016)

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If you're so far behind the curve,...

jeff.mason (5/2/2016)

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If I were you, I might try some proactive restores of all backups for a time to verify that there is no systematic problem, but if not then I...

YAY! And we're just now upgrading to 2012!

I feel so far behind the curve... sigh.

Just finished that. It yielded nothing but "commands completed successfully" which tells me there are no...

Grant Fritchey (5/1/2016)

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Jeff Moden (4/30/2016)

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Grant Fritchey (4/28/2016)

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Technical question:

I want to export large amounts of data. However, I don't want to use SSIS. I'm going to use SQLCMD.EXE. I need to...

SilverBack (4/29/2016)

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There are no Dups in the original database as all of these are considered Key Values,

how would you begin to eliminate the dubs if they are key values.

Luis Cazares...

You might also consider whether or not you can use READ ONLY files / filegroups for the data they are reporting on. And if you can get rid of Excel...

Not that I'm aware of.

Chad Crawford (4/29/2016)

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Reminds me of the strip that showed up on my Dilbert calendar this week: http://dilbert.com/strip/2013-04-25...