Stefan Krzywicki (2/17/2012)

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GSquared (2/17/2012)

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Evil Kraig F (2/17/2012)

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GSquared (2/17/2012)

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bitbucket-25253 (2/17/2012)

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Way way back Virginia Tech was working on a system with a buried cable in each lane, a sensing mechanism on the...

TravisDBA (2/17/2012)

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No. You asserted that the DBA is more important than a salesperson because a salesperson being gone for a day isn't as important as a server being down...

Sure it will. Unless someone is holding...

RCSI is specifically built to override Read Committed Isolation behavior. Read Committed is the default behavior, and RCSI modifies that from pessimistic to optimistic locking, by using row versions....

TravisDBA (2/17/2012)

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I was talking about a database going down, not a DBA being out for a couple of days. DBA's are important...

Evil Kraig F (2/17/2012)

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GSquared (2/17/2012)

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bitbucket-25253 (2/17/2012)

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Way way back Virginia Tech was working on a system with a buried cable in each lane, a sensing mechanism on the front of your...

RobertYoung (2/17/2012)

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GSquared (2/17/2012)

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RobertYoung (2/17/2012)

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GSquared (2/17/2012)

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Heather May (2/17/2012)

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If you ask a salesperson, they will say the salesperson should make more. If you ask a developer, they will say a developer should...

Matt Miller (#4) (2/17/2012)

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We finally achieved 4-9s uptime this year, up from 3-9s last year! The new DBA rocks! That's 9 less hours of downtime spread over a whole year....

RobertYoung (2/17/2012)

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GSquared (2/17/2012)

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Heather May (2/17/2012)

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If you ask a salesperson, they will say the salesperson should make more. If you ask a developer, they will say a developer should make more....

TravisDBA (2/17/2012)

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It's not a silly comparison IMHO to say that a CEO or CIO is going to notice a major order Processing website database down for however long, alot more...

Heather May (2/17/2012)

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If you ask a salesperson, they will say the salesperson should make more. If you ask a developer, they will say a developer should make more. The only...

bitbucket-25253 (2/17/2012)

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Revenant (2/17/2012)

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GSquared (2/17/2012)

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bitbucket-25253 (2/17/2012)

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Getting away from cold weather and all, I can remember back to 1950 when an uncle of mine gave me his old, old beetle so it...

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 it into...

Yes, but the transaction will have to wait its turn. Locks will have to be released by all other users. That's usually automatic, doesn't require any human intervention.

TravisDBA (2/17/2012)

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Most business don't need stellar personnel in any position. They need "good enough". But given the choice between a stellar DBA, stellar software dev, or stellar salesperson,...