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  • RE: How Many Times Will This Happen?

    bopeavy (7/18/2011)


    Nadrek (7/18/2011)


    Nobody who's an idiot, perhaps. Steal laptop, remove drive, image drive to your own storage medium for offline analysis and selling/publishing proprietary data. Optional: Sell pieces afterwards. Optional:...

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    GilaMonster (7/18/2011)


    Craig Farrell (7/18/2011)


    Note to self: Do not try to market in South Africa. They don't want to be trained. :hehe:

    We have a very odd culture around value...

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    bopeavy (7/18/2011)


    SQLRNNR (7/18/2011)


    bopeavy (7/18/2011)

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    GSquared (7/18/2011)

    Jeff Moden (7/17/2011)

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    Craig Farrell (7/17/2011)

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    Do you honestly think in 8 hours of training you can get a from scratch IT employee to a working...

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    jcrawf02 (7/18/2011)


    GSquared (7/18/2011)


    jcrawf02 (7/15/2011)


    Willingly? Sure. Without coercion? Not from the party receiving the payment, but coerced nonetheless by the need for protection

    I can't really call that coercion. As well...

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    On the "Accidental Training" thing (trademark that!), there's no reason you couldn't offer a cert at the end. Make it clear that the cert is based on, "peer review...

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Jeff Moden (7/17/2011)


    Craig Farrell (7/17/2011)


    Do you honestly think in 8 hours of training you can get a from scratch IT employee to a working (Junior) DBA?

    No... of course not. ...

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    jcrawf02 (7/15/2011)


    Willingly? Sure. Without coercion? Not from the party receiving the payment, but coerced nonetheless by the need for protection

    I can't really call that coercion. As well say that...

  • RE: Need Some Experts Update

    N-types (NChar, NVarchar) take twice as much storage as ASCII for the same number of characters. Thus, you are likely to have a lot of page fragmentation if you...

  • RE: Outsourced = Laid Off?

    J Thaddeus Klopcic (7/15/2011)


    What I can't understand is: If there are so many of these talented American programmers who have been replaced by offshore contractors, why are 95% of...

  • RE: SQL Script

    Books Online or MSDN have the definitions of what the T-SQL commands/functions/clauses do.

    For examples:

    GOTO http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms180188.aspx

    FROM http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms177634.aspx

    And so on.

    Just search MSDN for the keyword you want. I use searches like...

  • RE: Need Advice Please

    I was a salesperson when I was 32, and I changed (successfully) to being a DBA.

    I've known people who changed careers in their 50s.

    Heck, I know people who "retired" in...

  • RE: Problem with Split function

    It has to do with how your string split function operates.

  • RE: How Many Times Will This Happen?

    lewandot (7/18/2011)


    Two years worth of work and they didn't have it backed up?

    That was my first thought too.

    On the subject of "there ought to be a law", actually, there would...

  • RE: Any Supported and documented way to edit the Registry values?

    Start -> Run -> regedit.exe

    That's how you edit the registry. Keep in mind that if you do it wrong, you may have to rebuild the server by re-installing the...

  • RE: DDL Trigger to prevent dropping of a specific table?

    If they have sysadmin rights, they can disable the triggers and then drop the table anyway. That negates the whole point of what you're trying to do.

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