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  • RE: Where Did The Women Go?

    Ginger,

    If it makes you feel any better, you're not the only woman who works that way.  #s 1 and 2 describe me as well.  And while I do work with...

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  • RE: Where Did The Women Go?

    I think the most part of the decline is due simply to the effects of the Tech Bust.  We all know there were tons of people in IT that shouldn't have been...

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  • RE: Where Did The Women Go?

    Female sterotyping?  I don't know.

    I am the only woman in a 4 person DBA team here at my workplace.  The development team consists of an additional 7 men.  And yet,...

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  • RE: Puzzled by simple recovery model and transaction log

    Stephanie,

    No kidding!  I had a 6 week contract once for a company who only had developers on staff.  And my very first job was creating translog backups.  They had started...

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  • RE: Puzzled by simple recovery model and transaction log

    The only time I usually shrink a database is when I've backed up a Prod DB (set to FULL recovery) and restored it down to a Dev box.  I shrink...

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  • RE: Training for DBA job?

    Steve,

    Believe it or not, having IT experience period will do much to help you out.  My major problem was not having any professional (read "paid with appropriate job title") IT...

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  • RE: user with non sys admin to the box can not connect toSSIS

    Did you follow the instructions in the Microsoft KB Article? 

    If so, are you saying they are still having problems?  What sort of errors are they getting?

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  • RE: user with non sys admin to the box can not connect toSSIS

    This article should help you out.  There are additional permissions on the Server OS that you have to grant in order for non-sysadmin users to launch SSIS.

     http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa337083.aspx

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  • RE: Training for DBA job?

    For the most current stuff you need to bag the job, you should look carefully at the job description.  Depending on the company, DBA duties can be partitioned out (Production/Maintenance...

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  • RE: SSMS Passwords

    It might be a domain replication issue.

    If the domain controller that is handling the account with the just-changed password hasn't replicated the password change to the domain controller that is...

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  • RE: Splitting one column into multiples

    NP.  Let us know if you need any more help.

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  • RE: Hardware requirements for a data warehouse??

    Well said!  And thank you for the perspective.  I know I'm not going to get everything I want, but at least I can warn them.  Then, if they don't listen...

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  • RE: How do I query an XML Feed?

    I think Microsoft stuck the XML stuff in SQL 2k5 because so many people were using it, not because they wanted to.  Yes, there's a lot of nifty stuff, but...

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  • RE: How do I query an XML Feed?

    I almost forgot...

    You should be able to use a Script task in an SSIS package to move the XML file over to your server from the website.

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  • RE: How do I query an XML Feed?

    Am I reading your code right?  You actually had to join the document to itself to get it in SQL Server properly?

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