WayneS (4/2/2010)

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Kit G (4/2/2010)

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Just a note on requiring Time in Service. What are you going to do if the company that the person was working for goes out of...

Chad Crawford (4/2/2010)

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TheSQLGuru (4/2/2010)

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2) script and drop ALL indexes if you are deleting 85% of the data. Do the deletes, shrink database, grow data file back out manually,...

Voitek (4/2/2010)

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I did a cast(0 as datetime), but then I thought hmm. can negatives be converted to datetime? I picked 64000, but that failed, so then I went incrementally to...

Nice question.

Thanks

Paul White NZ (4/2/2010)

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I wonder how long it will be before someone complains that this QotD is misleading and incorrect since the question specifies "(yyyy/mm/dd)" format and the answers are...

Unenviable.:cool:

Grant Fritchey (4/2/2010)

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It's the tests that are the more important topic anyway. The tests need to test both knowledge and ability. The point being that unlike MCTIP it's not simply...

Lynn Pettis (4/2/2010)

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If you spend 50% of your time coding, what were you doing with the other 50%? There is more than coding, so I have to say 1...

Steve Jones - Editor (4/2/2010)

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I think you ought to keep TIS, though perhaps make it lightweight to administer. Have someone list the time and percentage of that time, working with...

Paul White NZ (4/2/2010)

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Lynn Pettis (4/2/2010)

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You know, if Paul keeps up this pace (100 pts/day average) in 2 months he'll be breathing down Barry's neck. Another 30 days, he'll...

Lynn Pettis (4/2/2010)

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You know, if Paul keeps up this pace (100 pts/day average) in 2 months he'll be breathing down Barry's neck. Another 30 days, he'll quite possibly be...

GSquared (4/2/2010)

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GilaMonster (4/2/2010)

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I dunno, that could give the impression that failed inserts/updates don't roll back (insert 10 rows,...

Jack Corbett (4/2/2010)

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To this point I've stayed out of the more detailed discussion, but I'll weigh in on the TIS.

I think it needs to stay in. I agree that...

Lynn Pettis (4/2/2010)

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I think I can see people focusing this cert only to DBA's. I don't see that as the case. This should be certification that is also...

HAHA