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  • RE: How can I attract Senior Database Administrator candidates?

    Weird formatting issue showing when I look at it. Screenshot attached.

    As far as...

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  • RE: Database Redesign

    ScottPletcher (7/31/2012)


    Stefan Krzywicki (7/31/2012)

    When I had the choice between Erwin & Visio, I chose Visio.

    Wow. You must not be a DBA or a data modeler 🙂 .

    I agree with...

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  • RE: can SSIS be part of cluster

    Koen Verbeeck (7/30/2012)


    GSquared (7/26/2012)


    You can't cluster SSIS, but you can have it running separately on each node, which accomplishes much the same thing. All it really means is that,...

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  • RE: Discussion: is e-Commerce making a mockery of SQL Server?

    I don't usually see foreign keys as a performance question, really. How fast your database and code are really don't much matter if the data they retreive is wrong....

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  • RE: Discussion: is e-Commerce making a mockery of SQL Server?

    I too have seen all kinds of justifications for various data-nightmare scenarios.

    One place I worked, they were proud of the fact that there were no delete statements ever issued to...

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  • RE: Better Bosses Needed

    David.Poole (7/31/2012)


    What is interesting is reading the LinkedIn profile of previous "bad" managers. Their perception of themselves appears radically different from the way their underlings remember them.

    Has anyone suggested...

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  • RE: How can I attract Senior Database Administrator candidates?

    On the telecommuting thing:

    I do that one day a week (sometimes more if there's a need on my part). VPN and RDP make it easy to do the work...

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  • RE: Better Bosses Needed

    Steve Jones - SSC Editor (7/30/2012)


    SQLPhil (7/30/2012)


    Those that survive, or perhaps thrive, get promoted.

    An interesting observation there Steve. Unfortunately I've seen too many examples where bad managers are promoted...

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  • RE: How can I attract Senior Database Administrator candidates?

    bclyde-1080677 (7/30/2012)


    Hey, I am not a proud man so I am perfectly willing to admit that the job posting could use some work. (What you mean I ain't got...

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  • RE: Database Redesign

    PaulB-TheOneAndOnly (7/27/2012)


    So... reading your detailed defense of your case, you are not suggesting to do Gap Analysis - which is what I do suggest to do, init?

    I have to rest...

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  • RE: Another "ARGH": Embedded text qualifiers

    Brandie Tarvin (7/27/2012)


    Gus, this issue was solved years ago. It was when I was converting from 2000 to 2005. I posted the solution and someone was just posting a thank...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    L' Eomot Inversé (7/27/2012)


    GSquared (7/27/2012)


    L' Eomot Inversé (7/27/2012)


    GSquared (7/27/2012)


    Brandie Tarvin (7/27/2012)


    Back to the semi-technical discussion...

    If joining a VARCHAR(8000) to a VARCHAR(MAX) value degrades performance, how does one get around this?

    I'm...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Gianluca Sartori (7/27/2012)


    Jeff Moden (7/27/2012)


    SQL Kiwi (7/27/2012)


    Jeff Moden (7/27/2012)


    I had an ephipany that just hit me like a ton of bricks....

    I see! Well that explains it

    ...

    Man! I...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    ChrisM@Work (7/27/2012)


    Gianluca Sartori (7/27/2012)


    Jeff Moden (7/27/2012)


    SQL Kiwi (7/27/2012)


    Jeff Moden (7/27/2012)


    I had an ephipany that just hit me like a ton of bricks....

    I see! Well that explains it

    ...

    Man! ...

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  • RE: Another "ARGH": Embedded text qualifiers

    Not sure what you're running into here. Embedded text qualifiers are things like having quotation marks inside a column value.

    "Bob","Jones","123 "Main" St","MyCity"

    The quotes are "Main" are potentially problematic.

    123,"Bob","Jones","123 Main...

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