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  • RE: Can We Skip the Marketing?

    As a positive note I get more out of the local user group meetings than any convention. And it's sponsered by Microsoft at their facility in Irving, Tx. Very little...

  • RE: Can We Skip the Marketing?

    We aren't sold. We are captives. While many of the features in the latest SQL Server or Visual Studio release may excite a percentage of the market, many of us...

  • RE: Donโ€™t Change Anything

    In our Company we have a separate Data Management team that deals with all the issues related to data

    In my company, 50% of my coworkers and 75% of my clients...

  • RE: Friday Afternoon

    Relax??? :w00t:

    I'm lucky if I don't eat lunch at my desk or end up working the weekend. Would love to have a these DBA jobs with games and lobster on...

  • RE: Code Writing Code

    I do a lot of automation and do write code to save time. My limitation is that the code I write has to be understood and possible maintained by some...

  • RE: Timing is Everything

    As former miltary and amateur radio operator, UTC is second nature. But try telling that to civilians and users!

    ๐Ÿ˜›

  • RE: The Afternoon Whistle

    Friday afternoon? That's the time all your clients and co-wokers dump their tasks on you and say: "This has to be done by Monday, by the way I'm leaving early...

  • RE: The Community Has Been Heard

    Continuing Service Packs and long term support are essential to maintaining the relationships that Microsoft has with the community. A recent poll of the users at our local SQL Server...

  • RE: Democratizing the Microsoft MVP Award

    As for weightings, imagine what would happen if someone stated that posts on the MSDN forums are weighted 3 times what posts on any other forum are?

    There are others that...

  • RE: The Dying Administrator

    Being aware of space was always a sub-job of a network admin or DBA.

    Are there really a lot of people whose full-time job is to administrate storage space?

    A ...

  • RE: Impact of Full-Text Indexing on Performance

    If you read up on the Full-Text Indexing Process in SQL Server 2005 BOL it states that the full-text population and master merge can be I/O intensive. Also check out...

  • RE: Read an excel file stored as varbinary in the DB?

    How about using SSIS to handle importing the data into tables?

  • RE: Handling Inconvenient Requests

    I get all sorts of requests due to the nature of my job, (database jack-of-all-trades). I've actually spent time at work this weekend to finish some processing so some reports...

  • RE: Who Watches the Watchers?

    Ethics and integrity are a necessary basis for a fully-functional civilization. Those civilizations that don't play by those rules tend to tumble down.

    Tell that to the folks at .gov and...

  • RE: Cast as datetime question

    :blush:

    Restarted Management Studio and the results work now as expected...

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