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  • RE: Keeping Your Job

    TravisDBA (10/30/2012)


    Agreed, there ARE no guarantees in anything in life. It's mostly a roll of the dice anyway. The only thing you can do in the meantime, as you say,...

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  • RE: char(??) vs varchar(??)

    There are a couple of factors that can make varchar take more space than char of the same length. First is very short strings in a small column. ...

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  • RE: Keeping Your Job

    Being competent and getting along well with others are the best bets for job security, and for getting a new job fast if the old one goes away.

    However, I have...

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  • RE: Installing BIDS 2005 and SSMS 2005 on Windows 8

    If it doesn't work, can you set up a VM on the laptop with a prior version of Windows on the VM? Kind of the ultime in backwards compatibility.

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  • RE: A maths puzzle for anyone up for a challenge!

    It has to be an "integer value", but does it have to be an "integer datatype"?

    A varchar(22) can hold things like "1234567890123456789012". Looks like a number, is a number...

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  • RE: SQL Server Consolidation (25 servers)

    Cool biz. That's a good first step towards determining if consolidation makes sense.

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  • RE: Adding record to db using stored procedure and identity counter.

    britinusa (10/25/2012)


    Thanks for your fast response.

    The reason we're doing this is simple.

    In order to upgrade our db environment, using clustering, mirroring or whatever methods we choose ......

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  • RE: GRANT EXEC Permissions to All Stored Procedures - User Databases

    Use a cursor for that. It's one of the few things they're actually good for.

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  • RE: How's this for a Job Description

    Lee Crain (10/26/2012)


    I forgot to mention the job description I recently saw for a full-time DBA that said the applicant would have to provide their own laptop.

    If this trend continues,...

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  • RE: SQL Server Consolidation (25 servers)

    RVO (10/24/2012)


    Thanks GSquared,

    Very useful suggestions. Thanks a lot.

    A question.

    I have not created benchmarks.

    How do I create them?

    I've found Confio Ignite (free version here: http://www.ignitefree.com/) very useful for benchmarking database servers....

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  • RE: Is there a Coalesce LIke function that returns the lowest/highest value of a set of params passed to it

    YSLGuru (10/24/2012)


    Thanks for all the replies. In case it make a doifference heres the tables DDL . Its a very simple table.

    The thing is a queue...

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  • RE: Is there a Coalesce LIke function that returns the lowest/highest value of a set of params passed to it

    YSLGuru (10/26/2012)


    GSquared (10/24/2012)


    Another possible solution:

    USE ProofOfConcept;

    SET NOCOUNT ON;.... OR T2.MaxDate != T3.MaxDate;

    Count = 0

    I just went to test out the ProofOfConcept UDf you...

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  • RE: XML Query help ....

    Excellent! Glad I could help.

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  • RE: XML Query help ....

    Honestly, I'm used to using OpenRowset's Bulk option to pull XML files into an XML column in a single step. I haven't used OpenXML in years.

    Once the XML is...

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  • RE: Daylight Savings timezone conversion?

    Khades (10/25/2012)


    Page cannot be displayed :(.

    I have a question, so if daylight savings were to change again in the future, I would have to go update this table correct?

    Yes. ...

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