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  • RE: How can I attract Senior Database Administrator candidates?

    derek.colley (7/26/2012)

    My advice would be to hire a company to find a DBA for you.

    Sorry Abel but this is god-awful advice. I recently got involved in a round of...

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    July 27, 2012 at 3:52 pm

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  • RE: SQL Server installation in Unix\Linux

    Gazareth (7/27/2012)

    Lynn Pettis (7/27/2012)

    Gazareth (7/27/2012)

    Of course, if you were willing to pay for MSSQL, you could also look at Oracle or DB2 which both work on Linux 🙂

    You owe the...

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    July 27, 2012 at 1:57 pm

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  • RE: Recursive Golf to-par calculation

    pixelwiz (7/27/2012)

    Hello J Livingston SQL,

    No, I don't play golf, but I know a whole lot about properly scoring golf tournaments, because I'm in charge of building and running the...

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    July 27, 2012 at 1:55 pm

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  • RE: Recursive Golf to-par calculation

    pixelwiz (7/27/2012)

    Ok, I've done running totals before, and I also thought it would be that or Recursive CTE.

    But what I can't visualize in my head is how do I make...

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    July 27, 2012 at 1:47 pm

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  • RE: Recursive Golf to-par calculation

    Sean Lange (7/27/2012)

    Lynn Pettis (7/27/2012)

    Sean Lange (7/27/2012)

    Not sure what the issue with posting the code so I will help that. 😀

    ...

    Not sure, Sean, but I know I had issues with...

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    July 27, 2012 at 1:39 pm

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  • RE: SQL Server installation in Unix\Linux

    Gazareth (7/27/2012)

    Scott D. Jacobson (7/27/2012)

    Oracle... /me shudders.

    Lol... Doesn't have to be a long look! :w00t:

    LOL:-D

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    July 27, 2012 at 10:44 am

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  • RE: "Question of the Day" is about:

    Not sure I agree with the "correct" answer.

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    July 27, 2012 at 10:41 am

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  • RE: Today's Random Word!

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    Cliff Jones (7/26/2012)

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    Daniel Bowlin (7/26/2012)

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    July 27, 2012 at 10:38 am

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Stefan Krzywicki (7/27/2012)

    Ugh, junior coder here is using SELECT * INTO in production code and won't listen to me when I tell him to change it, even with non-CELKO-like explanations.

    I...

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    July 27, 2012 at 10:32 am

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Koen Verbeeck (7/27/2012)

    Jeff, this is all your fault.

    http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1336367-147-1.aspx#bm1336413

    ps: irony

    :w00t::cool::hehe:

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    July 27, 2012 at 10:27 am

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    SQL Kiwi (7/27/2012)

    ChrisM@Work (7/27/2012)

    I'm still uncomfortable with "in order to handle our longest string (500,000 characters)". In all the time I've been working, and lurking here, I've never seen a...

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    July 27, 2012 at 10:27 am

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Lynn Pettis (7/27/2012)

    Okay, I may be missing something, but how do you accidently mirror a database?

    By asking the sysadmin "who's the fairest of them all?"

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    July 27, 2012 at 10:24 am

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    SQL Kiwi (7/27/2012)

    And people ask me why I don't post as much on SSC as I used to 🙁

    Really unfortunate - I would love to see more from you here...

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    July 27, 2012 at 10:13 am

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    SQL Kiwi (7/26/2012)

    Re: Aaron's article.

    If I were the author of the SSC article concerned, these are the main points I would take away:

  • The in-line article code should be updated to...

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July 27, 2012 at 9:43 am

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Lynn Pettis (7/26/2012)

    SQLRNNR (7/26/2012)

    Lynn Pettis (7/26/2012)

    Brandie Tarvin (7/26/2012)

    WayneS (7/26/2012)

    You'll might find this interesting: http://www.sqlperformance.com/2012/07/t-sql-queries/split-strings

    Very interesting indeed. Poor Jeff. Poor Tally Tables.

    Did you take a close look at how Jeff's split...

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    July 26, 2012 at 1:32 pm

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