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What exactly are you trying to achieve?
Are you attempting to come up with some sort of key generator?
Whereas a uniqueidentifier is 16 bytes a bigint is 8 but random keys...
July 24, 2011 at 12:49 pm
This would be on my list of things to avoid.
The nearest I've seen to a "safe" solution was where the tables for which these actions were allowed were stored in...
July 24, 2011 at 11:49 am
It's taken me a long time to wean myself of querying sysobjects, using GETDATE() etc.
I'm finding I'm dealing with disparate data sources so focussing on ANSI standard commands does eventually...
July 24, 2011 at 11:32 am
Do you actually use the XML datatype within SQL Server for anything other than the storage of XML data?
What I am getting at is if all you want to do...
July 24, 2011 at 11:18 am
I take it your DOMAIN\Administrator account has permissions to both SQL Server and the file system where the replication snapshot files are kept?
Just asking because some places block network and...
July 24, 2011 at 11:14 am
When I'm interviewing people all my questions can be attributed to 3 meta-questions
1. Can they do the job
2. Will they do the job
3. Will they fit in.
The...
July 20, 2011 at 4:30 pm
The endless pursuit of cheaper goods strikes me as a typical case of propping a ladder against a branch then sawing the wrong side of the ladder!
In the UK some...
July 17, 2011 at 6:29 am
I'm working on a large data warehouse project so data quality issues are my world at present.
Data quality in any shape or form is everyones responsibility. It doesn't matter...
July 14, 2011 at 8:14 am
Oil is cheaper than engines:hehe:
Cleaning out your trunk/boot will save you fuel because you aren't lugging a lot of dead weight around. Get those purge/archive strategies defined.
Keep it clean...
June 29, 2011 at 2:49 pm
I tend to evaluate sites over time. Some authors I learn to trust, others I use to provoke thought.
In general I look for articles that give examples. In...
June 28, 2011 at 3:16 pm
The "Cloud" is a broad description that ranges from your own virtualised server infrastructure, through virtual servers in someone elses data centre and on to virtualised facilities in the public...
June 28, 2011 at 3:07 pm
The Italians reckon there are 3 ways to get rich.
Complex regulation is great for lawyers. Marry a lawyer quick!
If regulations were written as "How to comply...
June 23, 2011 at 1:19 pm
It's a fact of life that most people work for companies whose prime function is not to test software and fund software companies. Most companies see IT as a...
June 23, 2011 at 1:05 pm
I had a look at Pragmatic works BI documenter. It's pretty good.
I think Microsoft's next big step in the BI world should be a centrally managed meta data repository...
May 2, 2011 at 3:38 pm
Thomas Keller (4/11/2011)
Rather than changing the server default collation just to avoid the issue on the next database creation, how about changing the collation in the model database?
Nice thought, but...
April 13, 2011 at 2:57 am
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