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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...
January 13, 2012 at 3:11 am
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...
January 12, 2012 at 3:19 pm
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...
January 12, 2012 at 2:30 pm
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...
January 12, 2012 at 9:50 am
What would be really great would be if an update of any kind raised an event that could be trapped.
Log event to event log, preferrably a specific...
January 5, 2012 at 8:56 am
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...
January 4, 2012 at 4:11 am
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...
January 3, 2012 at 4:25 pm
I've been wrestling with data in the cloud for a while. It doesn't help that the definition of cloud is so nebulous.
I'm not an infrastructure guy but I've been...
January 3, 2012 at 10:10 am
Let me get this straight:
You stumbled over some new features.
CORRECT. In the Microsoft course material
You glanced at books online
Did a bit more than glance and also read what little...
December 23, 2011 at 11:36 am
A lot of ideas that are painted black are due to mis-interpretations.
Take Hungarian notation. Simonyi suggested its use to signal intent but people mis-interpretted this to signify type. ...
December 22, 2011 at 4:37 pm
I very rarely use GOTO, in fact I cannot remember when I last used it.
If I have a large stored proc with a complex transaction then on failure of any...
December 22, 2011 at 3:11 am
I'd turn this on its head. My customer is my boss. That attitude might upset a few line managers but it would help build bridges between IT departments...
December 21, 2011 at 1:45 pm
CyberWomble (12/8/2011)
1.) Are the plans cached by sp_prepexec stored in the same place as the plans cached when using Stored Procedures?
2.) Do...
December 8, 2011 at 7:26 am
I've seen something like this before with linked servers.
In that particular instance the code below alleviated the problem
EXEC master.dbo.sp_serveroption @server=N'YourServer', @optname=N'lazy schema validation', @optvalue=N'true'
Thanks for the star rating. If...
December 8, 2011 at 1:37 am
collins.jmj (12/6/2011)
December 6, 2011 at 10:34 am
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