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  • RE: Other databases

    quote:


    Not happy with Sybase? Curiosity impels me to ask, why not?


    It's more of a...

  • RE: Other databases

    Looking through the Wrox Press Book "Beginning PHP4 Databases" the comments that it makes on MySQL and PostGres are

    MySQL

    • Optimised for Reads only apps.
    • Doesn't support DRI.
    • Doesn't support views or stored...
  • RE: Distribution Statistics

    Thanks for this.

    I notice that the _WA_SYS stats count towards the 255 indices allowed on a table.

    There is an db option to autocreate these stats which defaults to "ON" as...

  • RE: DBA's vs Developers

    I've seen the military approach.

    I've heard a story about NASA spending millions to develop a pen that would write in space. The Russians provided their cosmonauts with pencils.

    The military...

  • RE: How to run a stored procedure as other user?

    Are you the system administrator?

    Get the system administrator to create a copy of that user explicitly for testing.

    As I said, this is a long winded approach. Use EM to...

  • RE: DBA's vs Developers

    I think alot depends on the size of your organisation and the culture.

    In a small to medium organisation it is possible to get to know most of the developers. ...

  • RE: How to run a stored procedure as other user?

    If you are using Windows Authentication then you have to log in as that user.

    If you are using SQL Authentication then Open SQL Query Analyser and connect to your database...

  • RE: dual PIII or P4?

    Don't forget the licensing issues!

    If your database is serving and internet/extranet/intranet then you will be using per processor licensing hence doubling your costs.

    What about single point of failure principles? ...

  • RE: Creative Backup Strategies

    I simply don't trust back-ups.

    The only problem I have with differential back-ups is what happens if one of your backups corrupts?

    OK, I know that 99 out of 100 times this...

  • RE: Dynamic SQL or Stored Procedure

    I use Source Safe to store the scripts for all my objects. As the scripts are simply text files this causes no problems.

    In terms of debugging SQL I tend...

  • RE: Dynamic SQL or Stored Procedure

    I experimented with query hints on tables because I had a large batch job that is only run when no-one else is on the box.

    The original query showed up a...

  • RE: Dynamic SQL or Stored Procedure

    You would be better off finding what it is that causes the locks and modifying the stored procedures accordingly.

    In addition to the points raised by Chris Cubley I should like...

  • RE: Dynamic SQL or Stored Procedure

    As far as optional arguments/parameters is concerned, if there are a large number of them then I switch to using ORs simply because writing a SQL stored procedure that produces...

  • RE: Dynamic SQL or Stored Procedure

    I would suggest that this is a documentation issue and development practices issue.

    Unfortunately, once an organisation grows beyond a certain point formal documentation and methodologies become a necessity rather than...

  • RE: Junk Mail

    Sorry, the forum interpretted my HTML entities m etc

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