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  • RE: Decoding the SQL Server Index Structure

    Tim Weintz (4/1/2010)


    I must say that if I were so busy that I was upset about my time being wasted (the whopping 30 seconds it took me to read that...

    "Technology is a weird thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other. ...:-D"

  • RE: Decoding the SQL Server Index Structure

    Paul Randal (4/1/2010)


    Patrick2525 (4/1/2010)


    Not funny. Not being a database guru, I try to read and understand these articles when I get the chance to become more proficient, but rarely do...

    "Technology is a weird thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other. ...:-D"

  • RE: Decoding the SQL Server Index Structure

    Good one! 😛 You had my heart rate going there for a minute...

    "Technology is a weird thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other. ...:-D"

  • RE: Injecting Your Own Bias

    CirquedeSQLeil (3/24/2010)


    I would like to see the Summit move around. It might give me an opportunity to see different cities.

    Holding it in Seattle is fine by me, I like...

    "Technology is a weird thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other. ...:-D"

  • RE: The Missing Certification

    dma-669038 (3/23/2010)


    Lastly on the MCM..to me a lot of it seems to be knowledge for the sake of knowledge alone. I could understand that if it was history or literature...

    "Technology is a weird thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other. ...:-D"

  • RE: The Missing Certification

    Jack Corbett (3/23/2010)


    Michael Valentine Jones (3/23/2010)


    Lynn Pettis (3/23/2010)

    Actually there are still a good number of current Dungeons and Dragons players out here. Why not call it a "Guild"? ...

    "Technology is a weird thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other. ...:-D"

  • RE: The Missing Certification

    blandry (3/23/2010)


    What a topical editorial!

    Just two weeks ago we were dealing with a client where two of their staff, one a DBA, and one a "SQL Expert" proved to me...

    "Technology is a weird thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other. ...:-D"

  • RE: The Missing Certification

    Michael Valentine Jones (3/23/2010)


    I wouldn’t go as far as to say that certifications are worthless, but I personally give them no weight at all when I look at a resume.

    I...

    "Technology is a weird thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other. ...:-D"

  • RE: The Missing Certification

    MeltonDBA (3/23/2010)


    TravisDBA (3/23/2010)


    If you look on the Internet you can still find Braindumps that allow you to memorize these tests, and as long as they are available out there people...

    "Technology is a weird thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other. ...:-D"

  • RE: The Missing Certification

    If you look on the Internet you can still find Braindumps that allow you to memorize these tests, and as long as they are available out there people are going...

    "Technology is a weird thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other. ...:-D"

  • RE: Should We Lead or Follow?

    I tend to agree with Jeff on this one. Feedback is useless if no one cares to listen to it, and from what I have heard from many people in...

    "Technology is a weird thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other. ...:-D"

  • RE: Primary Keys

    A Primary Key is created by defaut as a Clustered Index, unless a Clustered Index already exists on the table, which is really to say that the Clustered Index does...

    "Technology is a weird thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other. ...:-D"

  • RE: Cast vs. Convert

    bouarroudj Mohamed (3/8/2010)


    CONVERT works across all platforms & has more capabilities in SQL Server is also true

    My thinking exactly and that was my answer too, which I got wrong. Question...

    "Technology is a weird thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other. ...:-D"

  • RE: The Afternoon Whistle

    Lawrence M. Meklemburg (2/19/2010)


    there are some database changes that you would never make over a weekend.

    My post stated just looking into the issue before Monday, not necessarily making database changes...

    "Technology is a weird thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other. ...:-D"

  • RE: The Afternoon Whistle

    Lawrence M. Meklemburg (2/19/2010)


    And if someone drops something off late on a Friday, it'll be something to look at and finish on Monday.

    Larry

    Database issues that get dropped off late on...

    "Technology is a weird thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other. ...:-D"

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