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  • RE: I lied, now what?

    Craig Farrell (2/7/2011)


    The only way to do serious research into current market value is to go out and be marketed and get offers. Otherwise, salary information is at *best*,...

  • RE: I lied, now what?

    Steve Jones - SSC Editor (2/7/2011)


    I never said I would fire someone that asked for a raise twice. You totally misread that. I said that if you were soliciting other...

  • RE: Connection Problems

    RichB (2/7/2011)


    What with them being inherently, disgracefully insecure.

    Are you talking about the fact that they have to be stored in plain text in connection strings that are at the...

  • RE: Connection Problems

    Nice question even if it was long winded. IMHO: Two points is a lot for a question that should be asked and answered correctly at any DBA interview.

    This was...

  • RE: I lied, now what?

    To me this sounds like every IT project that was taken on by a manager that did not understand the technology or how to implement it and then outsourced. ...

  • RE: SSIS Properties

    gmby (2/7/2011)


    I cannot seem to find any examples. I wonder if we are the only ones using config files in this fashion?


    I use them like this for...

  • RE: Database shrinking

    Ther is realy not enough information to form an intelligent answer. How do I know your system can properly handle a single DB file of this size without knowing...

  • RE: Clearning the transaction log

    rmechaber (2/4/2011)


    Consider an unused database with no active transactions. If I either manually issue a CHECKPOINT or stop/restart the server (forcing a CHECKPOINT), but there are no transactions to...

  • RE: Clearning the transaction log

    Hugo Kornelis (2/4/2011)


    There are other reasons for a checkpoint to not clear a VLF.

    I also selected the right answer for the "wrong" reason. :w00t:

    http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms345414.aspx

    My new question today is does...

  • RE: Indexing Lookups

    Craig Farrell (2/3/2011)


    SanDroid (2/3/2011)


    Very Odd... :w00t:

    I was reading someplace that in MS SQL, the leaf level of a nonclustered index contains the clustered key columns that point back to the...

  • RE: Indexing Lookups

    Hugo Kornelis (2/3/2011)


    SanDroid (2/3/2011)


    There really isn't the concept of a clustered index that determines the physical order of records. Internally, Oracle uses a multi-part identifier called a...

  • RE: Indexing Lookups

    Chris Harshman (2/3/2011)


    Indexes in Oracle don't quite work the same as they do in SQL Server.

    I can imagine that they don't... 😛

    There really isn't the concept of a...

  • RE: Indexing Lookups

    Tom.Thomson (2/3/2011)


    Hugo Kornelis (2/3/2011)


    Great question!

    I'm surprised (and, frankly, disappointed) about the large percentage of incorrect answers, though.

    yes, it's a good questiopn. And yes, that half of the answers are...

  • RE: Indexing Lookups

    Richard this was the same article I used to verify my answer.

    The Tables and Index Data Structures Architecture sections of the SQL 2008<R2>...

  • RE: SSIS Properties

    OCTom (2/2/2011)


    A 50/50 shot on groundhog day. Good guess.:-D

    This was an awesome Groundhog Day question.

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