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  • RE: Logical processors

    Interesting question.

    There is a rather odd statement in the explanation: "Hyperthreading does not affect licensing limits". That's not correct. Hyperthreading doess affect licensing limits on a virtual machine,...

    Tom

    September 22, 2016 at 10:12 am

    #1902536

  • RE: Complex foreign key

    Good interesting question.

    I rather dislike SQL Server's lumping together of multiple cascade paths and cascade cycles; it shouldn't be forcing us to use triggers in all cases where there can...

    Tom

    September 22, 2016 at 7:41 am

    #1902465

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Phil Parkin (9/20/2016)

    TomThomson (9/20/2016)

    Phil Parkin (9/20/2016)

    BrainDonor (9/20/2016)

    New t-shirt for dress-down Fridays - https://www.amazon.com/Trend-Could-Thinking-Would-Great/dp/B01M0TJS26

    But I don't know if I can - shouldn't the first full-stop be a comma? I think it...

    Tom

    September 20, 2016 at 10:11 pm

    #1902065

  • RE: Today's Random Word!

    whereisSQL? (9/20/2016)

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    Ed Wagner (9/20/2016)

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    Ed Wagner (9/20/2016)

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    Tom

    September 20, 2016 at 11:46 am

    #1901979

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Phil Parkin (9/20/2016)

    BrainDonor (9/20/2016)

    New t-shirt for dress-down Fridays - https://www.amazon.com/Trend-Could-Thinking-Would-Great/dp/B01M0TJS26

    But I don't know if I can - shouldn't the first full-stop be a comma? I think it would read better...

    Tom

    September 20, 2016 at 11:09 am

    #1901971

  • RE: The Danger of xp_cmdshell

    Ed Wagner (9/20/2016)

    Eric M Russell (9/19/2016)

    By default, only a member of SYSADMIN can execute xp_cmdshell when enabled. If your developers and application users are members of SYSADMIN, they can simply...

    Tom

    September 20, 2016 at 11:01 am

    #1901968

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Eirikur Eiriksson (9/19/2016)

    Sean Lange (9/19/2016)

    Eirikur Eiriksson (9/19/2016)

    I'm normally very tolerant when it comes to noobs but this one only leaves me three choises

    😎

    1) deaf

    2) daft

    3) dumb

    I think that is only...

    Tom

    September 19, 2016 at 3:12 pm

    #1901754

  • RE: The Danger of xp_cmdshell

    Jeff Moden (9/16/2016)

    SQLNightOwl (9/16/2016)

    [I agree the risk can be mitigated.

    That's what I'm talking about. People think there's a risk in using xp_CmdShell and there isn't. The only risks...

    Tom

    September 19, 2016 at 2:36 am

    #1901582

  • RE: Updating a View with CHECK

    Steve Jones - SSC Editor (9/15/2016)

    Sorry, I was testing this and should have included. I had a hiredate of pre 2016 already in there. Should have shown the initial data.

    Corrected...

    Tom

    September 19, 2016 at 1:08 am

    #1901560

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Sean Lange (9/16/2016)

    Eirikur Eiriksson (9/16/2016)

    ThomasRushton (9/16/2016)

    Thom A (9/16/2016)

    ThomasRushton (9/16/2016)

    Sean Lange (9/16/2016)

    BWFC (9/16/2016)

    jasona.work (9/16/2016)

    Thom A (9/16/2016)

    ThomasRushton (9/16/2016)

    These posts offering ways to get rid of weight loss? What? Eat more...

    Tom

    September 16, 2016 at 9:25 pm

    #1901489

  • RE: Plans for long rows

    Interesting question. But can't imagine having to use this in any of the stuff I've been involved in because the rows tend not to be extremely long.

    Tom

    September 13, 2016 at 5:36 pm

    #1900698

  • RE: Small rounding

    Good question.

    I think MS has got the selection of precision badly wrong for literals with 0 integer part.

    Since we are not permitted by MS...

    Tom

    September 9, 2016 at 12:00 pm

    #1900127

  • RE: You know what we really need? Better interpersonal communication

    Improved communication skills for technical people are highly to be desired. But so are improved communiction skills for marketing people, sales people, office administration people, purchasing people, legal people,...

    Tom

    September 8, 2016 at 5:59 pm

    #1899942

  • RE: You know what we really need? Better interpersonal communication

    Beatrix Kiddo (9/8/2016)

    Sometimes though, I think the tone is not justified at all. I've seen breathtakingly rude responses to perfectly politely-worded questions, and I think that's a massive shame.

    Been reading...

    Tom

    September 8, 2016 at 3:25 pm

    #1899927

  • RE: Checking Admins

    Oh drat, I forgot it returns NULL instead of rising an error.

    Good question.

    Tom

    September 7, 2016 at 3:48 am

    #1899524

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