Steve Jones - SSC Editor (3/2/2012)

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TravisDBA (3/2/2012)

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Actually, I am more interested in going to 2012 for the "Contained Databases' feature than the "AlwaysOn" feature because remapping logins/users and permissions...

It's a feature that I am looking forward to, but am I in a big rush to get to it? No. We have a pretty good high-availbility setup now, so...

Yep, you definitely have to keep it all in perspective. No one that I know of anyway, on their deathbed at the end of their life has said "I just...

Eric M Russell (2/29/2012)

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I ran across a piece that surveyed some salaries and it shows that people working with cloud platforms are commanding higher salaries, even when the underlying technologies...

Yep, that would certainly be nice. Than I wake up and...

I am currently doing a 14 Day eval of Redgate's SQL Monitor 2.3 now and I must say I am impressed with the ease of setup and config for this...

From my experience with VM's, the upside is we can migrate VM's between physical servers very quickly and easily with very little downtime. This allows for better performance by making...

Question Guy (2/22/2012)

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Pretty crazy how a DBA or developer can single-handedly cause or prevent a project to fail.(note that I didn't say succeed...always need help to succeed). ...

Stephanie Giovannini (2/21/2012)

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At one time I was a PowerBuilder developer. In 1996, PowerBuilder was a meal ticket. By 2001, the writing was on the wall for PowerBuilder. My employer used...

SanDeep, Reading is important to keep up on your skill set and it is amazing how fast that skill set can get rusty too if you don't. It is now...

Just let people give their opinions/experiences here without resorting to calling there opinions "silly". Please treat people with respect without resorting to calling them or their opinions names. You want...

No. You asserted that the DBA is more important than a salesperson because a salesperson being gone for a day isn't as important as a server being down for...

I was talking about a database going down, not a DBA being out for a couple of days. DBA's are important too....

It's not a silly comparison IMHO to say that a CEO or CIO is going to notice a major order Processing website database down for however long, alot more than...

Most business don't need stellar personnel in any position. They need "good enough". But given the choice between a stellar DBA, stellar software dev, or stellar salesperson, most...