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  • RE: We Don't Care about Data and IT Security

    Andrew..Peterson (8/11/2014)

    Yes, free market now.

    But back in the 1970's, without the limit, the only cards in wide use were American Express and Diner's Club.

    That surprises me. Barclaycard...

    Tom

    August 12, 2014 at 4:05 pm

    #1737386

  • RE: Query help, please

    David Hall-426383 (8/12/2014)

    I am migrating a Sybase ASE installation to SQL 2008R2, and have a query that runs on the Sybase, but not SQL. Can anyone tell me how to...

    Tom

    August 12, 2014 at 3:46 pm

    #1737383

  • RE: Display single row

    pwalter83 (8/12/2014)

    pwalter83 (8/12/2014)

    Hi,

    I have requirement to display only a single unique row out of the 2 rows. In the attached screenshot for example NATBX7686 and NATBX7686A shows twice but container...

    Tom

    August 12, 2014 at 3:26 pm

    #1737378

  • RE: Implicit transaction mode

    Stewart "Arturius" Campbell (8/12/2014)

    Good question, thanks Hugo

    The SET IMPLICIT_TRANSACTIONS setting caused a fair bit of fun when troubleshooting why one section of an application never committed any changes and took...

    Tom

    August 12, 2014 at 12:27 pm

    #1737313

  • RE: Today's Random Word!

    Ed Wagner (8/11/2014)

    djj (8/11/2014)

    Ed Wagner (8/11/2014)

    Stuart Davies (8/11/2014)

    Revenant (8/11/2014)

    Ed Wagner (8/9/2014)

    TomThomson (8/9/2014)

    SQLRNNR (8/8/2014)

    Compost

    Potting

    Growing

    Nurturing

    Caring

    Sharing

    Giving

    Serving

    Double fault

    Tom

    August 11, 2014 at 7:01 am

    #1736838

  • RE: WMI Alerts

    Hany Helmy (8/11/2014)

    Question says: "what items do I need to provide apart from the name?", but still in the answer you have to choose the Namespace :w00t:

    The name (which is...

    Tom

    August 11, 2014 at 6:58 am

    #1736835

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    I would go for something like not allowing more than two new threads in two minutes, not more than 3 in 4 minutes, not more than 4 in 7 minutes,...

    Tom

    August 11, 2014 at 6:49 am

    #1736830

  • RE: In-line variable assignment 2

    Nice question.

    One of the many things that are not adequately documented by Microsoft, but which people eventually learn from other people or from experimenting or from discovering it the hard...

    Tom

    August 11, 2014 at 6:20 am

    #1736820

  • RE: Today's Random Word!

    SQLRNNR (8/8/2014)

    Compost

    Potting

    Tom

    August 9, 2014 at 7:45 am

    #1736609

  • RE: Identity key (unique column) not behaving properly

    GilaMonster (7/19/2013)

    Migrating a DB does not reseed identities. Check for jobs that may have done so, ask other DBAs, check the max value in the table and compare it to...

    Tom

    August 8, 2014 at 3:03 pm

    #1736555

  • RE: Titles Matter

    I guess job titles can be useful if they reflect roughly what you do and what level you work at, but in my experience most job titles usually reflect at...

    Tom

    August 8, 2014 at 2:40 pm

    #1736552

  • RE: Today's Random Word!

    Ed Wagner (8/8/2014)

    djj (8/8/2014)

    Ed Wagner (8/8/2014)

    SQLRNNR (8/8/2014)

    Ed Wagner (8/8/2014)

    sing4you (8/8/2014)

    Ed Wagner (8/8/2014)

    TomThomson (8/8/2014)

    Ed Wagner (8/8/2014)

    Revenant (8/7/2014)

    Ed Wagner (8/7/2014)

    SQLRNNR (8/7/2014)

    djj (8/7/2014)

    SQLRNNR (8/7/2014)

    springs

    bed

    squeak

    Brakes

    Strakes

    Hull (Thanks...I had to look up the meaning of the...

    Tom

    August 8, 2014 at 12:53 pm

    #1736530

  • RE: advice for questions to ask regarding new database for 3rd party application

    I think I would start from "What is the data and what application is it there for?", which I suspect is jsust a different way of describing what Craig described...

    Tom

    August 8, 2014 at 11:46 am

    #1736515

  • RE: Why use RAID 5 for direct attached local drive for backups?

    It depends on just how well protected your backups need to be. What probability of losing the backups through disc failures can you accept?

    No raid means...

    Tom

    August 8, 2014 at 11:14 am

    #1736507

  • RE: Clustered index in uniqueidentifiers column

    If you use NEWID there are two problems: the GUID is 16 bytes (which is a potential problem as it is a lot of strorage if the table is big)...

    Tom

    August 8, 2014 at 9:50 am

    #1736476

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