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  • RE: Business Pressures

    GoofyGuy (8/13/2015)


    What's disconcerting is some companies will abandon the free model in favor of a higher priced subscription ...

    That's fine. That's business, but it does start to dampen the trust...

  • RE: automation

    Ed Wagner (8/13/2015)


    Eirikur Eiriksson (8/13/2015)


    SQLRNNR (8/13/2015)


    Ed Wagner (8/13/2015)


    I think the bottom line is that we need more information about what you're trying to do to be able to help you.

    No...

  • RE: Restricting Sysadmins from adding new sysadmins

    Brandie Tarvin (8/11/2015)


    Steve Jones - SSC Editor (8/10/2015)


    I think the design of many of these auditing products is to log and detect issues, not prevent them. Nor should they be...

  • RE: Restricting Sysadmins from adding new sysadmins

    Jeff Moden (8/7/2015)


    I don't know enough about the Cyberark product to save my own life if it became necessary.

    That notwithstanding, these types of products supposedly eliminate the need for any...

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    jasona.work (8/7/2015)


    Jeff Moden (8/6/2015)


    Grant Fritchey (8/5/2015)


    jasona.work (8/5/2015)


    GilaMonster (8/5/2015)


    jasona.work (8/5/2015)


    GilaMonster (8/5/2015)


    Snippets and a whole pile of script files saved in DropBox and on a creditcard-shaped flash drive (which I need to...

  • RE: Put clustered index on 8 Column Natural Key, or on Identity Key

    ScottPletcher (8/4/2015)


    Matt Miller (#4) (8/4/2015)


    ScottPletcher (8/3/2015)


    BSharbo (8/3/2015)


    I can understanding adding an identity key to a table to facilicate joins to other tables.

    However in this instance there is only the one...

  • RE: But we've always done it that way…

    Grant Fritchey (8/4/2015)


    xsevensinzx (8/3/2015)


    In my years working in software development from a marketing perspective, the right way always seems a bit too subjective from the people who are advocating change....

  • RE: Put clustered index on 8 Column Natural Key, or on Identity Key

    ScottPletcher (8/3/2015)


    BSharbo (8/3/2015)


    I can understanding adding an identity key to a table to facilicate joins to other tables.

    However in this instance there is only the one table.

    I guess I'm still...

  • RE: Using rand() inside a function

    Jeff Moden (8/3/2015)


    a_ud (8/3/2015)


    Thanks Jeff, perfect solution. Testing it now.

    I also found this explanation, pretty much in the same line, that also seems easy enough:

    http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2012/11/20/sql-server-using-rand-in-user-defined-functions-udf/

    Thanks for the feedback. The...

  • RE: But we've always done it that way…

    Michael L John (8/3/2015)


    ZZartin (8/3/2015)


    Hmm... what's fun is when good processes get built around bad processes and then the bad processes can't be fixed without redoing a lot more things.

    Then...

  • RE: Hiring for Culture

    below86 (7/29/2015)

    If you are going to look at my text's or emails or listen to my phone, you are in for a long boring process. I guess I got nothing...

  • RE: can I safely use top n for select/delete in a while loop?

    Alvin Ramard (7/28/2015)


    sqlguy-736318 (7/27/2015)


    Hi, can I safely use top n select/delete in a while loop? For example:

    declare @FieldVal int

    while (select count(*) from @MyTempTable) > 0

    begin

    select top 1 @FieldVal =...

  • RE: There Are Always Constraints

    Jeff Moden (7/28/2015)


    Eric M Russell (7/28/2015)


    Jeff Moden (7/28/2015)


    From the article:


    ...or spent a bit more money (or time), ...

    One of my goals is to stop spending money on "shiny new objects"...

  • RE: Is Skynet Coming?

    Eric M Russell (7/28/2015)


    Alvin Ramard (7/28/2015)


    Eric M Russell (7/28/2015)


    Iwas Bornready (7/28/2015)


    Maybe in a thousand years.

    If the AI robots are designed to think like humans, then hopefully they will turn on...

  • RE: Find Common Link Between Two Tables in Database without Key Constraints

    JimK 28184 (7/17/2015)


    I will try to integrate that into what I have already to do a name check first. We do get some that would be like Id in one...

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