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  • RE: Future Career Suggestion Request

    I can say that I find DBA work very satisfying. Pays well, too.

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  • RE: Name the things that were supposed to cause the End Of The World

    http://www.exitmundi.nl/exitmundi.htm

    It's a LONG list.

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Jeff Moden (7/2/2012)


    To continue the analogy, this is why I don't like to be a passenger in a car. There's no control over what's happening. You have to...

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  • RE: Populate zero when Count(*) doesn't return any rows

    How do you know which rows are missing?

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Brandie Tarvin (7/2/2012)


    Chad Crawford (7/2/2012)


    Help me out - I recognize that security is a concern when hardware is remote,...

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  • RE: Populate zero when Count(*) doesn't return any rows

    Do you have a separate table with the values you want to count against?

    For example, a table of customers and prospects, and a table of orders placed. You want...

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  • RE: Why does my scalar funtion not complete?

    Since it's both recursive and dependent on data in a table, it probably just takes a duplicate value in the table in order to end up in an infinite loop....

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  • RE: Password Help

    lwheeler (6/28/2012)


    Use keepass with its stored database on a service such as Dropbox. That way it will be available from any pc.

    So long as you can access Dropbox (or whatever...

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  • RE: Inserting Active Directory data into the database

    I would think you'd have one table with the request information, including who made the request, the details of it, and when it was made; who approved it, and when;...

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  • RE: Inserting Active Directory data into the database

    That depends on what you're keeping in the database, and what you plan to do with it.

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  • RE: Documenting the Undocumented

    cfradenburg (6/27/2012)


    GSquared (6/27/2012)


    There's a big difference between telling a user "don't try to service your TV yourself, there are parts in there that can kill you, and you don't know...

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  • RE: Join Clause Using

    It's not been part of T-SQL.

    Some flavors of SQL have different ways of handling implicit or default joins, or similar things, like this. Microsoft hasn't implemented this particular one.

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  • RE: The Redmond Agenda

    Hosting applications, databases, et al, in a Microsoft cloud, generates more customer lock-in than even the traditional MS stack does, so far as I can tell.

    I think the "lock them...

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  • RE: The Cult of Mediocrity

    sturner (6/27/2012)


    GSquared (6/27/2012)


    If there's one I listed that's not, please point it out to me with specifics. Otherwise, I recommend reading the whole thing, or at least all of...

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  • RE: Documenting the Undocumented

    cfradenburg (6/26/2012)


    GSquared (6/26/2012)


    Imagine if you bought a toolkit from, for example, Sears, and it had some tools in it that you had never seen before. So you ask them...

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