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  • RE: Bias, the Serial Killer of Diversity

    Matt Miller (#4) (5/31/2016) Bias is NOT the same as using your experience and judgment.

    And yet, so often, that is exactly what it is - that and nothing more.

    June 3, 2016 at 4:57 am

    #1883031

  • RE: Bias, the Serial Killer of Diversity

    GSquared (5/31/2016)

    David.Poole (5/27/2016)

    If you turn up to an interview as Britain's worst presented compost heap then more fool you. You don't know who you are going to meet, whether...

    June 2, 2016 at 8:05 am

    #1882822

  • RE: The Politics of SQL Security

    Kyrilluk (5/23/2016)

    Jeff Moden (5/23/2016)

    I simply ask if he'll enjoy reading about himself in the morning news after the company has suffered a breach. I also explain that customers can...

    May 31, 2016 at 6:49 am

    #1882129

  • RE: Solving Tempdb Issues

    Markus (5/13/2016)

    I find it amazing that still today that if you take the defaults the sizing and growth percentages for TEMP DB, model, msdb and master are so low. ...

    May 16, 2016 at 3:11 am

    #1879179

  • RE: Autoalert if SQLAgent stops

    sqlnewbie17 (5/13/2016)

    It does not run from SQLAgent.

    Message

    Executed as user: The error information returned by PowerShell is: 'The term 'Send-MailMessage' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script...

    May 13, 2016 at 3:53 am

    #1878852

  • RE: NTFS Cluster size and performance gains

    It can depend on a number of factors, including the type of workload, but 64k is often regarded as your best starting point. We've just put in a new...

    April 22, 2016 at 7:43 am

    #1873899

  • RE: Lock Escalation: 5000 to 1?

    No, when SQL Server attempts to escalate to a table lock, the escalation will fail if other processes are holding incompatible locks. It doesn't kill competing processes.

    "Lock escalation cannot...

    April 22, 2016 at 6:39 am

    #1873881

  • RE: Naming Is Hard

    Apparently a developer or DBA at some point decided it wasn't worth trying to name tables to match some entity and used GUIDs are names instead

    I hate that person. ...

    April 7, 2016 at 7:22 am

    #1870459

  • RE: Varchar usage

    Hugo Kornelis (3/29/2016)

    nadersam (3/29/2016)

    why don't we just make all varchar fields size to be 8000 the max size available?

    Because if you do, the question does not become whether someone will...

    March 30, 2016 at 3:42 am

    #1868510

  • RE: On formatting SQL code

    Eric M Russell (3/29/2016)

    If management measures developer productivity by the daily average number of lines coded and unit tested, then that obviously influences how aggressively you would use line breaks...

    March 29, 2016 at 9:29 am

    #1868292

  • RE: The New Men of IT

    Jeff Moden (3/19/2016)

    GeorgeCopeland (3/19/2016)

    CV is a common business term and it is used extensively in academia. I prefer qualifications brief .

    Heh... I refer to both a "CV" (Curricula Vitae)...

    March 23, 2016 at 4:50 am

    #1867025

  • RE: Spousal Surcharges

    thisisfutile (3/14/2016)

    iposner (3/14/2016)

    ...appointments are prioritised on the basis of the gravity of the conditions...

    So if it's so good to be given a number and told to stand in line, why...

    March 21, 2016 at 7:48 am

    #1866452

  • RE: Spousal Surcharges

    thisisfutile (3/14/2016)

    andrew gothard (3/7/2016)

    djackson 22568 (3/4/2016)

    However what the media doesn't tell you is that every country that has national insurance has huge waiting lists for lots of things, including as...

    March 17, 2016 at 7:48 am

    #1865858

  • RE: Spousal Surcharges

    Kevin Ray (3/8/2016)

    Our organization health care premiums are per person. So if you have four family members to cover then it would be the rate X 4. We...

    March 17, 2016 at 7:18 am

    #1865848

  • RE: But we've always done it that way…

    Wayne West (8/3/2015)

    Fast/Cheap/Correct: choose two.

    Also, bear in mind, if you fail to choose Correct, you can forget about the other two as well.

    March 14, 2016 at 8:06 am

    #1864929

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