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  • RE: Fun with sp_executeSQL

    Mark, I haven't come across any predefined limits for proc cache but that doesn't mean to say they aren't there.

    Time for further research methinks!

  • RE: Fun with sp_executeSQL

    Christoph Muthmann (1/31/2012)


    Nice article, but I'm missing a hint to adhoc queries and their influence on the proc cache. You can save a lot of memory by using the optimize...

  • RE: Try Some New Tools This Month

    Freemind, but have transitioned to x-mind.

    RegEx Coach

    Most of Red-Gate's stuff

    Innovasys DocumentX.

    Notepad+

    I used to enjoy acquiring tools and get excited over the new features but then I found that I was...

  • RE: Thoughts on Survival

    There is survival as in make the mortgage payments, eat, wear clothes.

    There is also survival in terms of your own sanity. I've known people who have taken on a...

  • RE: BYOD

    Just to change track a little. It's your hard-earned post-tax money going on software. What would you get as your base set and why?

  • RE: BYOD

    "Getting the sack" used to refer to a tradesman being handed back his tools in a bag.

    A tradesmans tools were often built up over their working lifespan starting with their...

  • RE: WWBOD

    Knowing my luck my FU money would be paid in Euros:ermm:

  • RE: WWBOD

    I seem to remember Steve saying that when Red-Gate bought SQLServerCentral he got enough to anything but not enough to do nothing.

    Steve, I don't know if you are just naturally...

  • RE: WWBOD

    After I'd made sure the kids had a fund to allow them to go to university I'd probably go back to University myself and study something for the fun of...

  • RE: Coding More Carefully

    Someone posted a comment on this site about not using a hammer to cut boards.

    The right tool at the right time used in the right way delivers the goods.

    Given...

  • RE: Coding More Carefully

    Revenant (1/12/2012)


    No Agile, back then. 😉

    Actually if you read "The mythical man month" by Fred P Brooks you will see that one of his peers was recommending the progenitor of...

  • RE: Coding More Carefully

    If you changed the environment in which someone works then they change the way in which they work. That is in human nature.

    To give a non-IT world example, drivers...

  • RE: Are Auto-Updates Good?

    What would be really great would be if an update of any kind raised an event that could be trapped.

    • Trap the update event
    • Log event to event log, preferrably a specific...

  • RE: Cloud Patches

    I would be interested to know just how Azure changes things for DBAs. There seems to be a lot of standard DBA tasks that just aren't relevant in SQL...

  • RE: Cloud Patches

    Yep, that sounds familiar. If you are using a public cloud service that is cheap or free then realistically you shouldn't expect much from it. You might be...

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