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  • RE: The other side of outsourcing

    Has anyone noticed whether DBAs get outsourced?  I've heard of programming, help desks and other call centers getting outsourced, but I've never heard one instance of DBA outsourcing.

    I can't imagine how anyone could...

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    August 28, 2007 at 3:56 am

    #729718

  • RE: 70-431 Microsoft Press Book frustration

    HA!  I'm not going crazy!!!

    I just found the errata for this book on Microsoft's Website.  No wonder I'm frustrated.  There are a LOT of typos in this stupid book.

    Moral of...

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    August 27, 2007 at 6:57 am

    #729511

  • RE: XML Data Types and mathmatical operations

    AHA!  I think I finally found the the way to turn XML datatype data into data you can operate on.

    Does the Nodes() method sound correct to anyone? 

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    August 24, 2007 at 12:37 pm

    #729358

  • RE: The other side of outsourcing

    Seems to me that they were definitely more worried about the education problem, though.

    And people think schools in Florida are bad! @=)

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    August 24, 2007 at 10:41 am

    #729341

  • RE: The other side of outsourcing

    I find it extremely amusing that U.S. companies are starting to go elsewhere because of rising salaries and labor shortages.  What did they think was going to happen once everyone...

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    August 24, 2007 at 9:38 am

    #729324

  • RE: Indexed Views - EXACTLY what is stored...

    Sam,

    Don't be too hard on the the people who ask this question.  I myself asked the question when I was first working on my MCDBA.  I had no experience with...

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    August 24, 2007 at 9:35 am

    #729322

  • RE: 70-431 simulations question

    Hmm. Very interesting.  So the rhetorical question is: if there is only one way available of doing a sim on the exam, how can you possibly get one wrong other than...

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    August 24, 2007 at 6:48 am

    #729246

  • RE: XML Data Types and mathmatical operations

    It would be the pre-summary details kept in that data type, which is why I was concerned about using mathmatical operations on it. 

    I see your point about everything else. ...

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    August 24, 2007 at 6:45 am

    #729245

  • RE: 70-431 simulations question

    Yikes!

    I'm not personally worried, but I have to wonder how many people fail the exams because the sims are different from each other...

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    August 24, 2007 at 5:22 am

    #729224

  • RE: 70-431 simulations question

    That makes sense.  I just hope whichever technique is used is consistant between the various exams. 

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    August 24, 2007 at 5:05 am

    #729217

  • RE: New Instance

    The short answer is "You can't".

    Standard only installs client tools on a PC / Laptop.  You need Developer version (or Express) to run a server instance on your laptop.  Workgroup might...

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    August 23, 2007 at 12:15 pm

    #729069

  • RE: Indexed Views - EXACTLY what is stored...

    It would seem to me, given the number of columns he's accessing, that he probably has an equivalantly large row/recordset being returned to the view.  In that case, an indexed...

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    August 23, 2007 at 11:21 am

    #729044

  • RE: TempDB CPU

    Tracey,

    Load is going to be high on Raid 1.  Higher for writing than for reading, because the disks are essentially making two copies of every transaction on the mirror.  Colin...

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    August 23, 2007 at 10:44 am

    #729036

  • RE: dtswizard

    Are you looking under the Database Engine or did you actually connect via Object Explorer to the Integration Services object?

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    August 23, 2007 at 4:13 am

    #728840

  • RE: TempDB CPU

    Tracey,

    No reason you can't do this in SQL 2000 that I'm aware of.  I just added a file to the TempDB on my local PC version of the database via...

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    August 22, 2007 at 8:35 am

    #728588

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