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  • RE: The Scientific Method: a call to action

    meilenb (5/24/2015)


    No one is advocating shipping without testing so your comment on that matter is not correct.

    People are shipping without adequete testing is the point being made. That, I...

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  • RE: The Scientific Method: a call to action

    meilenb (5/24/2015)


    Everyone knows that CO2, CH4 and N2O are factors in climate change. CH4 (refrigerants) in particular is a 21 multiplier to CO2, R-508B (refrigerant) is a 10,350 multiplier,...

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  • RE: Nimble Storage - anyone with experience of this kit?

    Jacob Wilkins (5/26/2015)


    andrew gothard (5/26/2015)


    ... Obviously this is an issue with any infrastructure, would it be more of an issue with this type of kit though?

    It is probably somewhat more...

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  • RE: Nimble Storage - anyone with experience of this kit?

    Thanks all for sharing your knowledge with me. Very helpful and much appreciated.

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  • RE: Nimble Storage - anyone with experience of this kit?

    Jacob Wilkins (5/24/2015)


    We have a bunch of Nimbles in our customers' environments, and depending on your performance requirements, they can be hard to beat for performance/price.

    Having said that, there are...

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  • RE: Nimble Storage - anyone with experience of this kit?

    Robert klimes (5/22/2015)


    I do have nimble in my environment which is not used it for SQL server but I can give some insight on how it works.

    we're looking to separate...

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  • RE: Downgrading from 2014 to 2012; Upgrading Back to 2014 later

    I would check with your M$ licensing manager, but my understanding is that one licence allows you to use one installation, with the version you licensed or either of the...

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  • RE: Here are some SQL Server Interview Questions

    Jeff Moden (5/14/2015)


    This one is actually true.

    Me, the interviewer: As the Lead Developer on this project, we're very interested in someone that understands and can easily do conversions between...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    GilaMonster (5/14/2015)


    Question for the people here...

    Over the years I've been very careful to keep my blog completely non-commercial, no adverts, no plugs for my company, nothing. Partially because when I...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    ChrisM@Work (4/29/2015)


    Sean Lange (4/29/2015)


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    Sean Lange (4/28/2015)


    Lynn Pettis (4/28/2015)


    Lynn Pettis (4/28/2015)


    Wow, what some people expect us volunteers.

    The OP just PMed me with all the info that had been posted...

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  • RE: Microsoft Exercise

    PHYData DBA (4/27/2015)


    Eric M Russell (4/27/2015)


    I wish Microsoft would drop support for v2008R2 this year; I'd love to upgarde to v2014.

    We would be running anything after 2008R2 if any of...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Sean Lange (4/28/2015)


    Lynn Pettis (4/28/2015)


    Lynn Pettis (4/28/2015)


    Wow, what some people expect us volunteers.

    The OP just PMed me with all the info that had been posted on the forum thread. ...

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  • RE: Embrace Stored Procedures

    bdenning (4/20/2015)


    I started to read this article and didn't get past the first paragraph. Why technical people resort to street language to express themselves is beyond me. I...

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  • RE: Use Of Cursor Vs Simple While Loop

    PHYData DBA (4/21/2015)


    Hugo Kornelis (4/21/2015)


    I don't like the script, and I like the advice to use WHILE instead of CURSOR even less....

    This can be "fixed" by first storing the results...

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  • RE: Partitioning, readonly and DBCC CHECKDB

    GilaMonster (4/20/2015)


    andrew gothard (4/20/2015)


    Not that I've ever tried it, but I'd expect snapshotting an active 2Tb database could take a real bite out of my maintenance window.

    Shouldn't do. If...

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