Steve Jones - SSC Editor (2/21/2012)

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You don't know enough independents. I can name 10 off the top of my head that are the sole wage-earner for their household, and easily...

jcrawf02 (2/21/2012)

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Not sure exactly how well this would work, but what if your virtual machine was on your phone?

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/news/2012/02/ubuntu-for-android-canonical-brings-ubuntu-desktop-to-docked-smartphones.ars?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss

they are so close...now we just need a HUD that runs on...

carmellabanker (2/21/2012)

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...QUESTION 2 is: I've yet to grasp where the T part will come into play. Thus far I've been pulling the information that represents logical entities in one system...

SQLKnowItAll (2/20/2012)

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Eh... Kind of? That is if the elements of...

Brian.cs (2/20/2012)

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Ok, my poking around on this topic was due to some behavior I was seeing in our database, and thankfully we've now also found the root cause of it....

On the point of a row, or even multiple rows, materializing "all at once", of course it doesn't actually work that way, since CPUs don't work that way (the process...

SQLKnowItAll (2/20/2012)

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SQL Kiwi (2/20/2012)

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SQLKnowItAll (2/20/2012)

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Why is your first example not a set? A set is simply "A group or collection of things that belong together or resemble one another or...

Are you using SQL 2008 (as per the forum you posted in), or an earlier version?

If 2008, then there's a Time datatype that you should use instead of DateTime, and...

That's called a "trigger". Look at "create trigger" on MSDN or in Books Online. They're pretty easy, if you know how to write stored procedures.

IowaTechBear (2/17/2012)

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Ah, people, I think we are getting content drift going on here. :ermm:

Both religion (Apple vs Microsoft) and politics (jobs, political party references, ...) have started taking over...

Break the tables up a bit more (normalize them).

You should have a table of vendors, a table of categories, and a table of items per category. Then, if a...

Brent, by way of possible appology, I discovered that Travis has a tendency to annoy/offend people, based on participation in other threads. I may have overdone my reactions to...

Robert Davis (2/17/2012)

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I was thinking more along the lines of someone with certifications but not a lot of experience. Someone with a lot of experience and no certifications would also...

PaulB-TheOneAndOnly (2/17/2012)

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GSquared (2/17/2012)

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PaulB-TheOneAndOnly (2/17/2012)

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Jeff Moden (2/11/2012)

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Seriously? You don't think that taking a mega-row text file from something like Double-Click.Net and loading...

Brian.cs (2/17/2012)

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GSquared, so in your understanding specifying transaction isolation level of Serializable when the database is Read Committed Snapshot and the application is expecting Read Committed Snapshot would almost certainly...