Ah yes, the year 2000 - the good old days. When SQL Server 2000 was new and we were full of optimism about the product and Microsoft's potential to gain...

If you would like some scientific evidence of the value of the MCDBA certification, a professor named Jack McKillip of the Southern Illinois University at Carbondale published a detailed study...

SNAFU - Situation Normal, All F***** Up

FUBAR - F***** Up Beyond All Recognition

These are my favorites.

To answer the original question - "What is the value of certification ?" There is certainly a value to having the logo on your resume, as other responses have...

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Could it be when opening the reply page or when returning from a thread to the active topics page the focus changes?

It...

An excellent article that made me think about some of my tables while reading through it. I especially like the links to references at the bottom.

Thanks for the great article, Andy. It seems like the conference was all work and no play. Hopefully, there will be more PASS social events next year in Orlando....

I would create a SQL Agent job to run a password-changing script every 90 days. The script could loop through the syslogins table and call sp_password for every SQL login....

A negative... at 800 x 600 with a 15" monitor here at work, I have to scroll right on every page which is a major pain.

A positive... the Active Threads...

Excellent!!! I plan to download the presentations once they update the Conference Archives on the PASS web site, but its hard to get a "flavor" for the conference just...

You should also be aware of the industry terminology. A "data mart" is generally considered to be data extracted from one OLTP application. Once you have several data...

I absolutely agree, the MCDBA should not be a main requirement. Certification is no substitute for experience. It provides external validation of skills and motivation. However, if...

I agree the cost is hard to justify. I have found that between books and practice tests, the cost to prepare for each test is around $150 dollars which would...

Instead of merging files, you can import all of your trace files into a table using a built-in function. Here is an example:

Use TraceDB

Select * into Trace_Table_Name From ::...

Shame on you Ram Kishore and the owners of the SQL Server Central web site for allowing this article to be posted !!!

This article was plagiarized from a white...