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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Ed Wagner (9/3/2014)

    Luis Cazares (9/3/2014)

    Eirikur Eiriksson (9/3/2014)

    Koen Verbeeck (9/3/2014)

    TomThomson (9/3/2014)

    Luis Cazares (9/3/2014)

    xsevensinzx (9/3/2014)

    Koen Verbeeck (9/3/2014)

    xsevensinzx (9/3/2014)

    I keep coming to this thread just to read all your fueled responses. It's baiting...

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    September 4, 2014 at 5:44 am

    #1743151

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Gazareth (9/3/2014)

    I've just been told: "We don't recommend running SQL commands against the database"

    Right. May as well go home then!

    You know Chris Date? Cool

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    September 4, 2014 at 5:31 am

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Ed Wagner (8/22/2014)

    Lynn Pettis (8/22/2014)

    And Mr. Celko is back with his baseball bat. :Whistling:

    In more than one thread. :Whistling:

    Hey, don't forget that it's an ANSI baseball bat that conforms to...

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    September 1, 2014 at 5:29 am

    #1742211

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Lynn Pettis (7/30/2014)

    Really?? Let's put a 500 million row table into an in-memory table.

    Hey, if it's still slow, you can also add an index on every column ...

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    August 14, 2014 at 2:32 am

    #1737943

  • RE: We Don't Care about Data and IT Security

    jay-h (8/11/2014)

    Andrew..Peterson (8/11/2014)

    Credit card companies focus on fraud because they have to. A long time ago, a law was passed limiting the card holder's exposure to $50. (thank...

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    August 13, 2014 at 4:54 am

    #1737507

  • RE: Getting It Right First Time. Almost?

    Jim P. (8/5/2014)

    lshanahan (8/5/2014)

    I can imagine managers and directors saying, "What? You want another SQL Server license just for testing?"

    I've always have gotten the reading from our legal staff that...

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    August 6, 2014 at 3:53 am

    #1735546

  • RE: Getting It Right First Time. Almost?

    Gary Varga (8/5/2014) "I don't need to comment my code because I named everything well and used simple well named methods so it is all obvious".

    Usually followed by something like...

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    August 6, 2014 at 3:35 am

    #1735540

  • RE: Access Disdain

    Gary Varga (7/21/2014)

    Access 1.0 was truly unstable but 1.1 resolved that. It is good for what it is intended and, like many things, is maligned for the results of inappropriate...

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    July 25, 2014 at 8:02 am

    #1732375

  • RE: Corruption on Database: type LOB data

    For me, the concern would be the underlying subsystem. That database has become corrupted for a reason, and in this case I would be looking at the IO systems.

    Have...

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    July 25, 2014 at 7:02 am

    #1732349

  • RE: Corruption on Database: type LOB data

    andrew gothard (7/25/2014)

    marco.msantana (7/25/2014)

    Yes. All tlogs until now.

    In that case, I'd try restoring from the last good full backup and roll the logs forward.

    Preferably to a different location (incidentally, have...

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    July 25, 2014 at 5:54 am

    #1732321

  • RE: Corruption on Database: type LOB data

    marco.msantana (7/25/2014)

    Yes. All tlogs until now.

    In that case, I'd try restoring from the last good full backup and roll the logs forward.

    Preferably to a different location (incidentally, have you checked...

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    July 25, 2014 at 5:51 am

    #1732320

  • RE: Corruption on Database: type LOB data

    Do you have tLog backups?

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    July 25, 2014 at 5:07 am

    #1732314

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    SQLRNNR (7/17/2014)

    Jack Corbett (7/17/2014)

    Sean Lange (7/17/2014)

    Sadly I will not. I need to find a way to get to one though. It is a large chunk of change for...

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    July 21, 2014 at 5:43 am

    #1730962

  • RE: What Is the Hardest Feature to Learn About SQL Server?

    Off the top of my head, probably recursive CTE.

    Recursive processes in POSH, .Net or VBS - say to explore a directory structure - clear as a bell. But for...

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    July 18, 2014 at 2:39 am

    #1730517

  • RE: Developers vs. DBAs

    thomashohner (6/25/2014)

    andrew gothard (6/25/2014)

    thomashohner (6/13/2014)

    Jeff you must have a crystal ball??! You just described yesterday for me. I actually had to say this in a email to one of our...

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    July 17, 2014 at 1:51 pm

    #1730429

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