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  • RE: Negotiating Your Raise Before Your Annual Review

    PhilDaniels (5/23/2011)


    I didn't say you had to be mean or insulting about it. But let's be honest, some people will simply not give what you deserve, even when it is...


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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    giggle snicker ROFLcopter.

    Thanks Gail, I had to pass that one along round my local folks...


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  • RE: Negotiating Your Raise Before Your Annual Review

    Andy Warren (5/23/2011)


    Phil, what would you think if you were on the side of the table and someone applied that kind of "leverage"? It's not to say it doesn't work...


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  • RE: count occurrences of unique 2 column combination

    Almost there: select objectid, type, count(*) as cnt from tbl group by objectid, type


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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    SQLRNNR (5/20/2011)


    I love Gails answer here.

    Hehe, the worst part of that is where I grew up Bellvue hospital was the local asylum. So my initial thoughts when I saw...


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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Yeah, I completely misread that for some danged reason. Thank you. I don't understand why it's necessary, the ITP's are supposed to be the TS and...


    - Craig Farrell

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    GilaMonster (5/20/2011)


    There's no pre-reqs to take the exam, however to get the MCITP certification, you need to hold the MCTS certification.

    I wrote my 2008 dev exams out of order, ITP...


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  • RE: What waits are acculumated during datafile growth?

    matthew.gantz (5/20/2011)


    I'm not seeing any documentation on PAGELATCH_IO - did you mean PAGEIOLATCH_% ?

    No, sorry, crossed my wires. I meant PAGEIOLATCH, sorry. Been one of those mornings......


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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    SQLRNNR (5/20/2011)


    Craig Farrell (5/20/2011)


    SQLRNNR (5/20/2011)


    For any interested, my recent exam experience is posted.

    *claps*, very nice. You're taking the low courses first though? I figured you'd go straight after...


    - Craig Farrell

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    SQLRNNR (5/20/2011)


    For any interested, my recent exam experience is posted.

    *claps*, very nice. You're taking the low courses first though? I figured you'd go straight after the 450's.


    - Craig Farrell

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  • RE: Select most recent record in JOIN

    I have no idea why I have to wrap the following in quotes to make it behave... but this is my message.

    The other option is to use CROSS APPLY (SELECT...


    - Craig Farrell

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Just a test, having a problem on another thread, won't let me post reply.

    This was only a test. meeeeeeeeeeeeep.


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  • RE: Sequentially processing messages in Service Broker Queue

    Nils Gustav Stråbø (5/20/2011)


    But it still depends how the SSIS package is executed. If the T-SQL statement that starts the package "finishes" before package execution is completed, the activation procedure...


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  • RE: Sequentially processing messages in Service Broker Queue

    Let the queue have only one queue reader. You set it as an option during the create queue command.


    - Craig Farrell

    Never stop learning, even if it hurts. Ego bruises are practically mandatory as you learn unless you've never risked enough to make a mistake.

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  • RE: What waits are acculumated during datafile growth?

    PAGELATCH_IO usually. Database growth is a disk wait, but it doesn't trigger it directly, other things would.

    You would be better off doing a system review with perfmon counters to...


    - Craig Farrell

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