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Steve Jones - Editor (10/13/2009)
Not much different than many other large companies. Parts of them are great, parts not so great.
I'd say that's pretty accurate.
October 13, 2009 at 1:40 pm
I still think working at MSFT is pretty cool. I enjoy what I do and the people I work with. the people I work with at MSFT are the best...
October 13, 2009 at 9:23 am
It really depends on the queries and the data in the table.
A covering index can be used for single column queries as long as the single column is the left...
October 12, 2009 at 1:10 pm
If your company is willing to pay for training, I highly suggest checking out SQLskills.com. These are really top of the line teachers.
August 15, 2009 at 8:14 pm
Just be aware that XML indexes are huge so if you want to get any performance out of querying the data, you're actually going to end up using a lot...
August 13, 2009 at 10:45 am
Jonathan Kehayias (6/18/2009)
June 18, 2009 at 11:24 pm
If you are upgrading SQL 2005 to SQL 2008 or an earlier version of SQL 2005 to a newer version (such as SP1 to SP3), then you can do this...
June 18, 2009 at 4:55 pm
I'm not arguing that SQL 2005 is better than SQL 2008, but I work at MSFT, and I can tell you that most of the large companies are not using...
June 17, 2009 at 9:53 pm
That's not accurate at all. Big companies that are totally on SQL 2008 are the minority, not the majority.
Firthermore, certification is supposed to reflect the knowledge and experience you have,...
June 17, 2009 at 4:32 pm
The upgrade to SQL 2008 is only one test, so it's very little money for a lot of added value. If you go out looking for a new job as...
June 17, 2009 at 10:50 am
Well, if you get to that point, you should be using System Center Operations Manager or some other tool to manage the servers.
May 27, 2009 at 4:22 pm
It looks like there are some control characters in the code. A quick analysis showed that the character is char(63). So I did a Replace on char(63) and got good...
May 22, 2009 at 3:09 pm
That's great if you only have one or two SQL Servers. Would you do the same if you have 30 servers or 300 servers or 3000 servers?
I think the script...
May 22, 2009 at 12:53 pm
I've started using PowerShell only recently myself. Personally, I was really disappointed when they replaced SQL-DMO with SMO/AMO/RMO because they are not scripted interfaces. For me, the reason I love...
May 22, 2009 at 10:57 am
I wrote about this on my blog: http://www.sqlservercentral.com/blogs/robert_davis/archive/2008/08/18/Automatically-respond-to-mirrored-database-failovers.aspx
May 19, 2009 at 10:20 pm
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