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RE: The 5 First SQL Errors to Check For

yea the error messages are pretty good. but when you're training the greenest of the green you can't necessarily expect them to understand what converting a char value to datetime...
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June 14, 2011 at 2:30 am

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RE: The 5 First SQL Errors to Check For

David Hutcheson (6/14/2011)
"SSMS does - just occasionally - report an error where none exists."
Really? This is the fifth most common SQL Server error? After using SQL Server pretty much every...
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June 14, 2011 at 2:12 am

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RE: Breakfast

oat bran toast?
wow.
I hope I never get that old... 😉
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June 14, 2011 at 2:05 am

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RE: Breakfast

lol never been a fan of cocopops... but cinnamon grahams - thats a different story 😀
the other day I ran out of poptarts and had rice crispy squares instead...
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June 13, 2011 at 4:15 am

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RE: your spare time?

I play EVE a bit.
I have a space ship and I shoot other spaceships with it 😉 it's fun.
At the moment I have practically 0 free time. I'm in the...
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June 13, 2011 at 3:11 am

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RE: The Desire for Control

If I were a DBA first and not an Analyst Programmer (or if I even wanted to focus entirely on DBA work - which I dont really) I'm pretty sure...
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June 10, 2011 at 2:21 am

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RE: sql server architecture

homebrew01 (8/29/2010)
The input & output I understand. It's the part in the middle I have trouble with.
ha ha excellent 🙂
to the op:
see http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-US/library/ms179276(v=SQL.90).aspx for physical database architecture and http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms189559(v=SQL.90).aspx for...
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June 8, 2011 at 3:52 am

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RE: A Note to My Fellow Application Developers about Knowing Our Limits

krowley (6/2/2011)
Overall I agree, however I am Leary of outsourcing something as critical as backups and disaster recovery. I would outsource development or support work before I would outsource backups....
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June 2, 2011 at 8:13 am

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RE: A Note to My Fellow Application Developers about Knowing Our Limits

we have an IT dept of about 70. We have a lot of very talented & knowledgable people, but so far as I can tell there is only 1 person...
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June 2, 2011 at 6:31 am

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RE: The Backup Passwords

Well naturally you wouldnt pick the next stub. just flick through the book to a random page and pick a random ticket out of it.
I like tihis idea.
You could make...
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June 2, 2011 at 3:21 am

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RE: The Backup Passwords

Well, being an analyst programmer, I ought really go and do that myself. I might get round to it somewhen.
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May 27, 2011 at 3:26 am

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RE: The Backup Passwords

I have a folder in my inbox marked 'passwords' in that i have folders named in the format yyyymmdd. every time the passwords change I create a new folder and...
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May 27, 2011 at 2:53 am

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RE: Which Bugs Do You Find?

jwhisman (5/20/2011)
(or more often, don't remember how they managed to do it).
+1 :w00t:
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May 20, 2011 at 9:20 am

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RE: Which Bugs Do You Find?

Good article!
here's my 2p
At the moment I write mostly management information reports and perform statistical analysis on a 3rd party's database.
The 'bugs' I come across most of the time revolve...
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May 20, 2011 at 2:45 am

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RE: Need to force ODBC version 2.0 ?

Yep, thats exactly what it was. The informix driver (Esker's tunodbc200.ifx) works over port 5371 outbound, then seems to get a response on ports 2000-2010 and then back again on...
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May 19, 2011 at 8:49 am

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