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

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It's a LONG list.

Jeff Moden (7/2/2012)

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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...

How do you know which rows are missing?

Brandie Tarvin (7/2/2012)

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Chad Crawford (7/2/2012)

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

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...

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....

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

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;...

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

cfradenburg (6/27/2012)

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GSquared (6/27/2012)

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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...

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.

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...

sturner (6/27/2012)

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GSquared (6/27/2012)

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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...

cfradenburg (6/26/2012)

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GSquared (6/26/2012)

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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...