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I think it's probably impossible to manage something you know nothing about unless you have the sort of personality that can comfortably delegate real decision making power to others. ...
February 14, 2010 at 8:40 am
I agree with many of the comments so far: this was not a good QOTD.
The correct answer is that the a default create with no parameters supplied other...
February 14, 2010 at 7:52 am
I don't like the cliche. Best practise is to consider the tradeoffs and choose the course of action that will deliver the most favorable outcome. That is no...
February 13, 2010 at 1:43 pm
GOC-481399 (1/19/2010)
Be good to see an alternative article on how to maintain your standards when thrown into a (purely hypothetical of course) BI/Reporting team where:
It can be much worse...
February 13, 2010 at 1:34 pm
A very useful question. I've learned something new. Policy-based management begins to look more useful.
But I guess MS must have changed their mind at some point but forgot to...
February 12, 2010 at 5:41 pm
Mauve (1/15/2010)
Lynn Pettis (1/15/2010)
I don't read the QotD in the newsletter, I read it on SSC.
And it is best to answer later in the day as the question is usually...
February 12, 2010 at 5:01 pm
Kevin Gill (1/15/2010)
Even though I would have got it wrong had it actually been asking...
February 12, 2010 at 4:52 pm
I guess I would be happy to see UK prices for SQL server at about £3k per socket for standard edition, and about four times that for enterprise. Last...
February 12, 2010 at 7:49 am
A good QOTD -one of the better ones.
It's quite amusing how MS muddles its terminology in this area, though
If you read http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms188332.aspx you will find the following text:-
L. Using a...
February 11, 2010 at 2:05 pm
I wonder if the feature is all that important? It seems to me to be something that would only get used very rarely, and for such infrequent use it...
February 10, 2010 at 1:23 pm
RBarryYoung (2/10/2010)
About 8-10 months ago while trying to help someone with a similar problem on the MSDN forums, I discovered that there is in fact a way to do this...
February 10, 2010 at 12:24 pm
Jeff Moden (5/4/2009)
JohnG (5/4/2009)
peter (5/4/2009)
February 10, 2010 at 6:31 am
The Paul R blog entry is nice and clear - my mind was boggling at the original article, but as soon as I read the phrase "copy-before-write" it all clicked.
February 10, 2010 at 4:16 am
Lynn Pettis (2/9/2010)
Explain to me why you think each of the answers is wrong.
Because each answer tries to select from a table with a particular name in an completely unspecified...
February 9, 2010 at 8:40 pm
Lynn Pettis (2/9/2010)
Okay, explain to me why C, although the correct answer, is wrong.
Becasue all the code options povide produce an error or NULL. Now if you think that...
February 9, 2010 at 8:06 pm
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