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  • RE: New Poll

    Have You Ever Failed In A Software Project?

    Of course I have. More than once. Anyone who has spent more than 40 years in developing software and systems will...

    Tom

    August 20, 2013 at 12:53 pm

    #1643199

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Stefan Krzywicki (8/19/2013)

    The Dixie Flatline (8/19/2013)

    Just looking in a minute, while stopping to grab a donut. I feel compelled to ask this water-cooler question. ...

    Tom

    August 20, 2013 at 10:19 am

    #1643164

  • RE: User with total points more than 30000?

    hakan.winther (8/20/2013)

    +1 Learned something new today. The leaderbord has a bug, is that the reason why I am not at the top? 😀

    I doubt it; probably the reason is that...

    Tom

    August 20, 2013 at 9:58 am

    #1643154

  • RE: Clean Data

    Richard Warr (8/20/2013)

    I use DQS quite a lot and those steps don't bear much relation to what you do.

    1) Create/Map Knowledge Base

    2) Create DQ Project

    3) Run project to cleanse data

    is...

    Tom

    August 20, 2013 at 9:48 am

    #1643145

  • RE: Should He Stay or Should He Go?

    sgmunson (8/18/2013)

    I think you've forgotten the purpose of tracking a discussion... to hear relevant points when they are made. I see no reason to have to go spend...

    Tom

    August 18, 2013 at 5:07 pm

    #1642526

  • RE: Dynamic properties/attributes of the entity

    It may be useful, given that you have temporal data, to look at (Dace's version, not Fagin's) of 6NF and some of the work on Anchor modelling (and Knot and...

    Tom

    August 18, 2013 at 4:50 pm

    #1642524

  • RE: Should He Stay or Should He Go?

    sgmunson (8/18/2013)

    Fly in my cereal ? Nope... just a statement of fact. I got a whole bunch of e-mails indicating updates to this topic,...

    Tom

    August 18, 2013 at 4:19 pm

    #1642521

  • RE: Should He Stay or Should He Go?

    Looks like a fairly junior manager screwed up at recruitment and was too wet behind the ears to use performance review and if necessary performance improvement programme to fix the...

    Tom

    August 17, 2013 at 7:33 am

    #1642411

  • RE: Second normal form or third normal form?

    Golfer22 (8/17/2013)

    Can a transitive dependency be a non-key determinant having a non-key attribute?

    Not sure exactly what you mean here, but maybe an example would be a relation with 6 attributes...

    Tom

    August 17, 2013 at 6:16 am

    #1642399

  • RE: Second normal form or third normal form?

    Golfer22 (8/17/2013)

    1. If a table was in 1NF and had non-key attributes with trivial transitive dependencies on candidate keys, could it be in 3NF? I think it could...

    Tom

    August 17, 2013 at 5:53 am

    #1642398

  • RE: User with total points more than 30000?

    DugyC (8/16/2013)

    Regardless of what a single forum thread says, as of now there are 3 people with more than 30,000 points and they are all showing as SSCChampion. Therefore that...

    Tom

    August 16, 2013 at 1:00 pm

    #1642302

  • RE: User with total points more than 30000?

    Koen Verbeeck (8/16/2013)

    Apparently a bug in the total leader board not showing the correct levels above SSChampion.

    If you go to the thread mentioned in the reference, you see the correct...

    Tom

    August 16, 2013 at 12:58 pm

    #1642301

  • RE: SSIS 2012 -SSISDB

    batgirl (8/13/2013)

    I fully appreciate the efforts of the author - the bottom line is that this question forced me to learn something new. I just wish it were possible...

    Tom

    August 13, 2013 at 1:08 pm

    #1641094

  • RE: Would You Choose SQL Server?

    Jim P. (8/12/2013)

    Jeff Moden (8/12/2013)

    There would have to be some sort of written agreement where the developer agrees to "stay on" for a certain amount of time in return for...

    Tom

    August 13, 2013 at 12:57 pm

    #1641085

  • RE: Strange Job Slowdown 30 secs to 30 minutes

    Stefan Krzywicki (8/13/2013)

    OK, I have some more data.

    We stopped all backups of all kinds across the entire system. That's not it.

    The things you're not doing definitely include system state backup...

    Tom

    August 13, 2013 at 9:24 am

    #1640997

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