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  • RE: Data Types

    I would disagree with TINYINT: I knew that TINYINT was the intended answer, but intentionally chose SMALLINT.  The reason has to do...

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  • RE: Building Angular2 Apps with SQL Server Data

    Just out of curiosity, how much does the API server software cost?  I went to the site you linked, and noticed that...

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  • RE: CPU Spikes Caused by Periodic Scheduled Jobs

    Nice article, thanks for sharing. We have a number of systems that have some high “peakedness” for CPU. It hasn’t become an issue yet, but I’ll look into...

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  • RE: Database Nonsense - Unstructured Data

    I think the editorial was good. It put into words some of the thoughts I’ve had for a while, especially in the area of schemaless schema (EAV). If...

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  • RE: Bash for ETL pre-processing

    Yeah, the good old days…

    In the past I did a lot of work on Solaris / UNIX systems to extract data and prepare it for database loading. I...

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  • RE: Learning to Search

    Regarding emails (at work), I create an annual PST file. As I get the periodic “do you want to archive” I move anything I received or sent for a...

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  • RE: Logging and Error Handling for SQL Stored Procedures

    Interesting article; thanks for writing it.

    I work a lot with dimensional data warehouses, and use SP’s for all of my ETL work. I do logging very similar to this:...

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  • RE: Exit Lines

    So long, and thanks for all the fish.

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  • RE: Help needed- Generate 8 char Alphanumeric Unique Sequence

    Jeff Moden (4/22/2015)


    DEK46656 has the right idea and he also has the right idea of splitting this thing into obvious paired parts but most people don't understand even the straight...

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  • RE: Help needed- Generate 8 char Alphanumeric Unique Sequence

    Curious problem… the first thing I thought of was to think of the format (AA00ZZ99) as an IP address: split up the value into 4 distinct buckets, with a numeric...

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  • RE: Microservices, SOA and Service Broker

    CGSJohnson (3/24/2015)


    Remus Rusanu[/url] also has a good handle on the subject.

    Agreed. I've been to his site a lot in my attempts to learn.

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  • RE: Microservices, SOA and Service Broker

    Though I have known about Service Broker since its initial release, I never had a reason or chance to work with it… until recently. I am trying to push...

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  • RE: Microsoft and R

    A couple of other folks mentioned this already, but I can definitely see it: R#

    Think about it; C#, ADO.NET, and R# all working together…

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  • RE: The Worst Comments

    Something I'm guilty of is a comment like this:

    -- If you get to this point, you have problems

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  • RE: Where Do You End Up as a DBA?

    Sean Redmond (2/20/2015)

    4. Systems Architecture — you branch into the design and running of whole systems.

    This is what I've seen most.

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