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  • RE: Create Job Server

    Deny Christian (10/11/2016)


    ...

    Integrity-->backup-->reorganize-->rebuild index-->clean up

    I want to make job schedules based on these criteria.

    whether to separate or can be made a whole job?

    I'm not sure I entirely understand the question,...

  • RE: Bingle is my Senior DBA

    Unfortunately I think some of the problems originate with Microsoft's documentation itself. Sure there's MSDN and TechNet resources online, but I remember back when I was first getting into...

  • RE: Running a stored proc using opendatasoirce

    I've setup something similar before, but I used OPENROWSET instead. I tried a few different things but I found if I was calling a stored procedure I had to...

  • RE: Writing Better T-SQL: Top-Down Design May Not be the Best Choice – Part II

    I had a couple of comments on this article. In general I thought it was good, however, there's a couple of overlooked key points here I'd like to bring...

  • RE: Where's the Unit Testing?

    Gary Varga (7/25/2016)


    Chris Harshman (7/25/2016)


    Where I work, the developers do a lot of test driven development for their C# work, but a limiting factor for them doing more on the...

  • RE: Where's the Unit Testing?

    Where I work, the developers do a lot of test driven development for their C# work, but a limiting factor for them doing more on the database side is the...

  • RE: The Bleeding Edge Versus N Minus One

    Where I'm working, we're still in the middle of our SQL Server 2014 rollout. Even on servers that are on 2014, I've had to turn off the new cardinality...

  • RE: Practical Uses for Synonyms in SQL Server

    bob.probst (9/11/2014)


    I use synonyms to refer to any object outside of the database that I'm working in. They make for a useful way to encapsulate an object that...

  • RE: Install Cumulative Updates

    I think Microsoft's current cycle of 2 year major releases and 2 month cumulative updates shows that they still don't understand their customers (the corporate world), their needs, how they...

  • RE: Grant user with read only access to all user DBs

    <oops this is a duplicate of someone else's post>

  • RE: Packaged-Application Database Nightmares - A Horror Story.

    Tears of joy fill your eyes are you are looking at a perfectly designed fourth-normal-form diagram!

    hmm... I would be skeptically cautious about a database implemented completely in perfect fourth-normal-form. ...

  • RE: Where should middle tier business logic be stored?

    RonKyle (10/16/2015)


    This has always bothered me: What really is meant by "business logic"?

    This is a good point, and someone else has also mentioned it. As you point...

  • RE: Software Estimates

    I've read before some interesting articles about a concept called the "cone of uncertainty". Essentially estimating too precise too early leads to poor estimation. Software projects tend to...

  • RE: Is Skynet Coming?

    Eric M Russell (7/24/2015)


    I'm not concerned about robot overlords exterminating mankind in the future, but I do believe that artificial intelligence has created a sort of soft tyranny here and...

  • RE: Pounds of Formatting Fun

    I think it makes perfect sense to have FORMAT function work on numeric values from right to left. Consider the following:

    SELECT FORMAT(1234,'###,###,###')

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