afshin.khorram (10/31/2013)

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Hi all,

We have a 75GB hard drive dedicated to logs. Some time at night the logs for our databases grow to a total of 60-65GB. I...

This would be one of those reasons why it is recommended to not use reserved words as table or column names.

GilaMonster (10/31/2013)

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MVP is an award for community contributions. That's it. It shouldn't guarantee a DBA job any more than spending time at Toastmasters should. It's about how much you share...

I think I missed it this year - dang it.

Pumpkin (ball shaped)

Spooky

COSPLAY

Ed Wagner (10/31/2013)

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GilaMonster (10/31/2013)

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Jeff Moden (10/31/2013)

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GilaMonster (10/31/2013)

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Last day of freedom. Starting dev job tomorrow. Hopefully will go well...

I'm unlikely to be around much during the week from now on (at...

Corporate Seagull

steve.jacobs (10/30/2013)

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L' Eomot Inversé (10/30/2013)

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Not a really bad query, but not really good either. It's fallen into the trap of assuming that the order in which rows in the...

Sean Lange (10/30/2013)

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GilaMonster (10/30/2013)

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I remember seeing a CV where someone had rated himself 10/10 on 4 versions of Windows (XP, 2000, 98, NT4), two versions of SQL Server (2000, 2005)...

Stefan Krzywicki (10/29/2013)

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Luis Cazares (10/29/2013)

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Stefan Krzywicki (10/29/2013)

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It is knowledge either way. And there is value in communicating what you would do, that doesn't mean you need to display it by...

Jeff Moden (10/29/2013)

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Chad Crawford (10/29/2013)

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We use the scale of 1-10 to help give us an idea of how tough to start the interview questions, but we usually give the...

Koen Verbeeck (10/30/2013)

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SQLRNNR (10/29/2013)

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Trust Koen to take it out of...

I have two databases that are offline on my instance currently and the...