". . . We can't all be superstars, or be amazing programmers, but we can all improve our skills and the more we invest in ourselves, the more it's likely...

Rod at work (8/30/2011)

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. . . No one has had any pay increase in 4 years. And because our benefits keep [getting] raised, we're all taking less home...

Thank you, Dee! It compelled me to re-read GROUPING SETS.

Sean Lange (8/29/2011)

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Francis McFaul (8/29/2011)

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To SSCommitted,

This and other code was developed by their in-house Developers and has been around for years. Dynamic SQL are a fairly common method for...

jn_gray (8/29/2011)

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I think that all developers start out as specialists and over time become generalists unless they decide to make a concerted effort to remain a specialist. . ....

Sean Lange (8/29/2011)

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No I think I knew what you meant. Seems like an extra step that just simple isn't necessary. Stored procedures are a great way to "store" your sql....

Eastwood

Mike, much thanks for a thought-provoking editorial!

Make that a few thousand -- planning year is 1,500 hours and it takes several years...

Caffeine

It is just my experience that I cannot support by any quotes of authoritative materials, but I would back up only partitioned cubes if I can restore just the partition...

10,000 feet is the optimum altitude for aerial reconnaissance. I take it you are speaking with authority!

🙂

This is an interesting post.

I would just correct one small detail: "'Denali' was recently released as beta #3 (otherwise known as Community Technology Preview 3 (CTP3))"

Microsoft CTPs are not betas...

I got this one wrong but I learned something...

Archbishop