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  • RE: What did you do before SQL?

    I tend to think that software engineers are to programmers what mechanical engineers are to car mechanics.

  • RE: What did you do before SQL?

    • Fruit picker
    • Gardener
    • Odd job man
    • Commodore Pet Basic and 6502 programmer
    • dBASE II/Clipper programmer
    • HP3000 Image3000 programming
    • Cognos Quiz programming
    • VB Access SQL developer
    • Dad
    • Statistician
    • Web DBA and CMS Specialist

    Still doing...

  • RE: Where Do I Want To Go Today? - Real Time Defragging

    I've seen an article somewhere describing how existing file systems such as FAT & NTFS are going to be replaced by databases. The argument was that the existing file...

  • RE: Dubious DBA Statement

    Thanks Tom, that is a very clear description.

    Does anyone know if this a generic SQL Server/Sybase issue. I see that alzdba has experienced it with SQL7 SP2 but does...

  • RE: Dubious DBA Statement

    quote:


    How "vast" are we talking? Hundreds/sec? thousands? Do you have any idea of peak v avg numbers?


    September 8, 2003 at 10:45 am

    #473057

  • RE: Stored Procedure Development Cycle

    Philip,

    What you need is a good document managements system plus the internal procedures in place to use it.

    Ideally the documents need version control so I would say have an official...

  • RE: Stored Procedure Development Cycle

    Yep, agree with all this but I would add documentation to the list.

    The situation I am in is where the stored procedures are effectively an interface to the database layer....

  • RE: MS03-033 or MDAC 2.8 Which would you install?

    If there is a new configuration change then the main thing is to test it away from potentially embarassing situations.

    We got stung in the jump from 2.5 to 2.6 because...

  • RE: Where Do I Want To Go Today? - Upsert

    I like the idea behind WITH UPDATEEXISTING.

    I feel it needs three settings.

    • ON - Does what it says on the tin.
    • OFF - Performs INSERTS only but throws errors if ...
  • RE: Match firstname lastname

    How are you going to cater for Rob, Bob, Robert, Robin, Bert. They could all be the same person or they could be all different.

    Speaking as someone who has...

  • RE: Simple Enough..

    Try this instead

    CREATE Procedure p_get_customerdetails

    /* Param List */

    @Customer_ID int,

    @view Int =0 AS

    Set NOCOUNT ON

    /*

        0 = CustMain

        1 = Devices

        2 = Setup

        3 = trxHist

    */

    IF @view = 0

        BEGIN

            SELECT * FROM vw_CUSTOMER...

  • RE: SQL Server Considerations

    Visual Studio has a tool called "Application Performance Explorer". I have to admit that I've never used it, but it is there.

    I've heard of a tool called SQL HAMMER,...

  • RE: Best practice when to use an index

    Hans,

    If you use Full Text Search facilities then you must have a primary key because SQL Server saves various status flags and other bits and bobs in the primary key.

    I...

  • RE: SQL Server Considerations

    quote:


    Can I host all the SQL Servers on one powerful machine under windows 2000?


    Yes...

  • RE: Best practice when to use an index

    quote:


    I don't understand your point? Why do you so forcefully express that your Identity column HAVE to be your primary key?

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