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  • RE: SQL Mobile Management

    Or set up a VPN connection from your Android phone and manage through that pretty easily.

    Without paying a subscription cost for "SQL Center Pro".

    (Honestly, was the first post just a...

  • RE: Odd Questions

    TravisDBA (3/2/2011)


    Eric M Russell (3/2/2011)


    amenjonathan (3/2/2011)


    Some experience at my prior employer lends me to believe they may have thought you weren't planning on staying? My last employer hired two very...

  • RE: Bad Question on Exam Review?

    Inform them that they are 100% completely wrong about that.

    Proof:

    CREATE PROC ErrorTest

    AS

    RAISERROR ('Test message', 10, 1);

    GO

    EXEC ErrorTest;

    GO

    SELECT *

    FROM sys.messages

    WHERE message_id >= 50000

    OR text = 'Test message';

    If that proc "logged" an...

  • RE: Job Outlook?

    Ask recruiters in your local area. They'll know the local market better than we will, and will have a better idea of what will fly and what won't.

  • RE: Odd Questions

    amenjonathan (3/2/2011)


    Some experience at my prior employer lends me to believe they may have thought you weren't planning on staying? My last employer hired two very overqualified people to fill...

  • RE: Tables empty, but DB Size out of control

    Are there incomplete/uncommitted transactions showing?

  • RE: Tables empty, but DB Size out of control

    Check the logs on the purge job. Make sure it's doing what it's supposed to.

  • RE: Books/Online samples for SQL

    Microsoft has tutorials online on MSDN. Lots of sample code, et al.

    You can get started here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms167593.aspx

  • RE: Tables empty, but DB Size out of control

    Does this database act as a staging platform for a large ETL process, or anything similar to that? If so, it will grow to accommodate it's maximum data load,...

  • RE: Odd Questions

    Koen Verbeeck (3/2/2011)


    GSquared (3/2/2011)


    Koen Verbeeck (3/2/2011)


    GSquared (3/2/2011)


    Actually, to partially refute my own assertion, I was once told why I wasn't hired. It was because "I was too strong a...

  • RE: Odd Questions

    Koen Verbeeck (3/2/2011)


    GSquared (3/2/2011)


    Actually, to partially refute my own assertion, I was once told why I wasn't hired. It was because "I was too strong a candidate". The...

  • RE: Bad IT People

    Had a co-worker who used his admin rights to break into e-mail accounts of senior management personnel. I found out about it after he'd been fired for it.

    I used...

  • RE: xp_cmdshell - Procedure expects parameter 'command_string' of type 'varchar'

    You're welcome.

    It's probably because they haven't rewritten xp_cmdshell since SQL 2000, and that didn't have the max option available.

  • RE: Odd Questions

    Koen Verbeeck (3/2/2011)


    GSquared (3/1/2011)


    If you interview, and think you did well, and get rejected, you are never, ever told why. There are litigation-prevention reasons for that (as commented about...

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Tom.Thomson (3/1/2011)


    GSquared (2/28/2011)


    And between Hotmail's issue last month (was it last month?) and Google's issue today, anyone who trusts any business-essential anything to "the cloud" is probably having second thoughts...

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