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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Brandie Tarvin (5/15/2012)


    Tom,

    Does EU data protection laws define a difference between sensitive information and personal indentifying information?

    Yes. personally identifiable information may be sensitive or not; the rules if it's sensitive...

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Lynn Pettis (5/15/2012)


    L' Eomot Inversé (5/15/2012)


    Revenant (5/14/2012)


    It depends. 🙂

    You do not have to delete data, you can mark rows as inactive or obsolete, which of course allows undo.

    I think that...

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Revenant (5/14/2012)


    GilaMonster (5/14/2012)


    Revenant (5/14/2012)


    GilaMonster (5/14/2012)


    Steve Jones - SSC Editor (5/14/2012)


    Jack Corbett (5/14/2012)


    I haven't done a backup, restore, or anythign with security since I've been there.

    Whaaa? No backups of...

  • RE: SQL Server Agent Proxies

    Toreador (5/15/2012)


    Stewart "Arturius" Campbell (5/15/2012)


    what is disturbing is how many (45% at this point in time) of responders selected "yes".

    Why is that disturbing? It's not as if it's important to...

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Jeff Moden (5/14/2012)


    Brandie Tarvin (5/14/2012)


    dwain.c (5/13/2012)


    Oh and BTW. I've been using the below terminology. If anyone knows of different, more widely accepted terminology, I'd appreciate knowing what that...

  • RE: SYSLanguages on SQL 2012

    Lynn Pettis (5/14/2012)


    I'd have thought more people would have gotten this one right. Only 60% at this time, sorry but that's low for this question imho.

    I agree. It...

  • RE: SYSLanguages on SQL 2012

    Good question.

    It's a pity the script used in the explanation didn't include "RECONFIGURE WITH OVERRIDE

    GO" like the script in the question. The absence of the reconfigure statement...

  • RE: NULLS

    Nice question, thanks Robin. And thanks too to Hugo for his correction of the explanation.

  • RE: Performance Test of New Date Manipulation Functions (SQL Spackle)

    Terrific article, Wayne.

    It would be nice to see a comparison using datetime2, datetimeoffset, date (for relevant truncations only) and time (again for relevant truncations only) as well...

  • RE: SELECT * usage

    WayneS (5/10/2012)


    So phase 2 of my learning is: how could I have done it better?

    Wayne, the question itself is clear, it's the wording of the answer options that makes it...

  • RE: Today's Random Word!

    Tom Brown (5/11/2012)


    L' Eomot Inversé (5/11/2012)


    90-10 rule (Sturgeon's law - actually Sturgeon's second law: his first law is the Nothing rule)

    Hey - I can apply this 90% rule easily...

  • RE: Where are the good Senior Level DBA's?

    Lynn Pettis (5/10/2012)


    Anyone tuning the query by not looking at IO and Time statistics and query plan would immediately fail.

    Guess I'd fail here. First things I look at are...

  • RE: Today's Random Word!

    eccentricDBA (5/11/2012)


    Revenant (5/11/2012)


    EL Jerry (5/11/2012)


    Brandie Tarvin (5/11/2012)


    Ray K (5/11/2012)


    Hawaii (vacation planned for October!)

    50

    50/50

    20/20

    80–20 rule

    90-10 rule (Sturgeon's law - actually Sturgeon's second law: his first law is the Nothing rule)

  • RE: Today's Random Word!

    Lynn Pettis (5/10/2012)


    tulips

    boom and bust

  • RE: SELECT * usage

    Hugo Kornelis (5/10/2012)


    I have to disagree with you, Tom.

    Sure, the wording could have been better. I'll immediately agree to that.

    But the question clearly asks: "When does a "SELECT *" statement...

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