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  • RE: DBA Dreams

    Childhood dreams - mine certainly weren't about being a DBA, or about anything to do with computers. I dreamt of being a linguist, of being a mathematician, a soldier,...

  • RE: DBA Dreams

    GoofyGuy (4/30/2014)


    Lous Davidson wrote:

    I've encountered DBAs who seemed ill equipped to administer a home grocery list and checkbook.

    What surprises me is the number of DBAs these days who have very...

  • RE: DDL Trigger for Drop_Table

    If you use that code to try to create the trigger, the trigger will do nothing - the code is syntactically incorrect because the create trigger statement is not the...

  • RE: Hash Match

    PHYData DBA (5/1/2014)


    TomThomson (5/1/2014)


    PHYData DBA (5/1/2014)


    TomThomson (5/1/2014)


    gbritton1 (5/1/2014)


    Before I answered this question, I read

    It reads, in part:

    The hash join has two inputs: the build input and probe input. The query...

  • RE: The Results Tab

    Toreador (5/2/2014)


    Why the restriction to Grid? The same is true with Text.

    Maybe to add a liitle confusion to the QOTD? After all, it would be a bit easy if...

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Steve Jones - SSC Editor (5/1/2014)


    Can someone do me a favor and try to edit a few of their own posts?

    got a report of a bug here: http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1566649-433-1.aspx?Update=1

    It's a bit...

  • RE: Hash Match

    PHYData DBA (5/1/2014)


    TomThomson (5/1/2014)


    gbritton1 (5/1/2014)


    Before I answered this question, I read

    It reads, in part:

    The hash join has two inputs: the build input and probe input. The query optimizer assigns these...

  • RE: Hash Match

    gbritton1 (5/1/2014)


    Before I answered this question, I read

    It reads, in part:

    The hash join has two inputs: the build input and probe input. The query optimizer assigns these roles so that...

  • RE: Keeping my cardinality

    dawryn (4/29/2014)


    :blink: :blink: Is this question about previously existing database or a newly created one? :unsure: According to linked document answers are only for the latter :Whistling:

    He has a point...

  • RE: Alter Column

    Koen Verbeeck (4/30/2014)


    Interesting question, thanks.

    For people who like an official reference:

    ALTER TABLE (Transact-SQL)

    ALTER COLUMN

    Specifies that the named column is to be changed or altered.

    The modified column cannot be any one...

  • RE: Memory-Optimized Table checkpoint

    Nice question.

    Thomas Abraham (4/28/2014)


    Kind of disturbing to see that 36% (as of now) think a checkpoint is taken after every completed transaction.

    It's getting worse - it's now grown...

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    GilaMonster (4/28/2014)


    For the UK residents, what are my travel options for Birmingham -> Swansea?

    Not yet certain if that's where I'll go, but may well be a place to start.

    Birmingham...

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    rodjkidd (4/27/2014)


    TomThomson (4/25/2014)


    I avoid Heathrow whenever possible - it's a pretty unpleasant airport.

    Tom,

    Interesting, I don't have a huge amount of experience with flying abroad, so bearing that in mind... Can't...

  • RE: Create DML trigger for single table in SQL 2008 and send email alert to group

    dba.sql29 (4/28/2014)


    All ,

    Thanks for your help.

    This trigger is not going to work for me. I am trying to capture user name, data and couple of other thing when something is...

  • RE: AlwaysOn 2014

    Steve Jones - SSC Editor (4/24/2014)


    The 2014 BOL updates have lagged a bit and I suspect there are doc issues. There are 8 in 2014. If you see it documented...

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