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My experience with systems that are used periodically i.e. at set intervals but not continuously, is that when they are used it is "all hands to the pump" and they...
January 21, 2003 at 4:51 am
Gods do I hear you on this, and I'm deaf!!
This is why I always script everything I do. Yes EM is quick and easy, but the wretched thing should...
January 20, 2003 at 10:35 am
I agree with your last point that there should be a tool to do the laborious stuff for you.
I agree that it would be handy to be able to do...
January 16, 2003 at 6:37 am
Sounds like a very old legacy system if it is using dBaseIV.
If the supplier was to upgrade to MSDE then at least there would be the possibility of using replication...
January 14, 2003 at 7:24 am
The first thing I do following the creation of a new database (and back up of the master) is to expand the master database and user database to a size...
January 14, 2003 at 4:06 am
I'm not exactly sure what you mean by "metadata queries". What is it you are trying to do on the system tables?
January 13, 2003 at 6:44 am
I would DEFINITELY recommend having spares on-site. To argue on the grounds of budget is to be penny wise and pound foolish. It's like scrimping on your insurance,...
January 10, 2003 at 2:48 am
The error in the event log is
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17204 :FCB::Open failed: Could not open device F:\SQLServer2000\SQL_SystemLog\TempLog.ldf for virtual device number (VDN) 2...
January 6, 2003 at 7:51 am
I'm surprised that people are so against UDTs.
I tend to regard my database servers as flexible when they have to be, but I don't encourage changes to schemas...
December 20, 2002 at 2:08 am
I've come across this problem in SQL 6.5.
Pre-SQL2000 my solution was to have a test machine that I could set up SQL Server 6.5 with whatever character set...
December 19, 2002 at 2:20 am
Sorry about the spelling in the previous post. Some swine switched the office coffee for decaff.
December 19, 2002 at 2:08 am
Steve raises an interesting point.
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People don't know what they want.
But they sure as...
December 19, 2002 at 2:05 am
I wonder how those of you who became managers, how you became so?
Were you formally trained or did you come into the office one morning and realise that most of...
December 18, 2002 at 2:13 am
If programmers ran the company? Read Animal Farm by George Orwell.
Also, how many of the DOT COM start-ups WERE run by programmers, and before that the Silicon Valley start-ups?...
December 16, 2002 at 2:24 am
The last database on earth that I want to default to is master!
If you are going to default to a system database then I would make it TempDB. At...
December 9, 2002 at 2:52 am
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