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  • RE: Balloons and Data

    Jim P. (8/8/2013)


    I don't have a good way to test this anymore. But at my last job we would do a data load once a month that consisted of text...

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  • RE: FTS Near Operator

    Koen Verbeeck (7/25/2013)


    Great question. Never use full text search though, so definately learned something.

    +1

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  • RE: Balloons and Data

    Hi Steve, Years back I instituted the use of and Operational Data Store or as some say staging area. The initial thought was to use this as a...

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  • RE: Separation of Duty

    Eric M Russell (8/7/2013)


    Franklin's Gambit says that we often use data and explanations to justify a decision we've already reached, rather than actually prove that some choice is the best...

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  • RE: Separation of Duty

    KimRickwood (8/7/2013)


    I do not agree with separating the data collector and the data analyzer. Potential pitfalls should be acknowledged and more rigor should be applied to avoid them.

    It is not...

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  • RE: Winning

    SQLRNNR (8/6/2013)


    it's up to us to make the effort, stop making excuses, and start getting things done

    Well said.

    "I guess it comes down to a simple choice, really. Get busy living...

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  • RE: The Human Touch

    TravisDBA (8/1/2013)


    Miles Neale (8/1/2013)


    Thanks Steve.

    To Error a few times is Human, to error repeatedly doing the same thing is insane! To write a script to replication...

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  • RE: SQL views

    Revenant (8/1/2013)


    Thanks for a really easy one, Naseer!

    And a great reminder as well!

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  • RE: The Human Touch

    Thanks Steve.

    To Error a few times is Human, to error repeatedly doing the same thing is insane! To write a script to replication the error is...

    Not all gray hairs are Dinosaurs!

  • RE: DBCC CHECKDB

    L' Eomot Inversé (7/31/2013)


    It's a good question.

    It's a bit shocking to see that so far out of just over 600 people about 55 people picked the non-existent and utterly implausible...

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  • RE: Less QA?

    Time for the morning ramble -

    First off I am old-school. What I do is a reflection on me. It is not the specifications not the tool....

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  • RE: LEN and CONVERT

    Revenant (7/30/2013)


    Nice and easy - thanks, Kapil!

    +1

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  • RE: Enable/Disable a table to be read only on the fly

    James_DBA (7/30/2013)


    Couldn't you accomplish the same thing with Roles? Set built-in users to datareader role, even get a little bit paranoid if you'd like and explicitly deny datawriter role.

    We currently...

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  • RE: Flying high on the Big Data hot-air

    Hi Phil,

    I look forward to the replay of this editorial in 5 years and the reaction others have to it then.

    As to the comment now, you say that...

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  • RE: TSQL- XQuery

    L' Eomot Inversé (7/29/2013)


    Hugo Kornelis (7/29/2013)


    I share your antipathy (or should I say hatred?) of XML and XQuery.

    I think "dislike" is perhaps a better word than either of those....

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