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This editorial begs the issue about being a Microsoft Master in SQL Server. The requirements were just changed. Now rather than requiring something like $20K and three dedicated weeks of...
November 17, 2010 at 3:43 am
What are the security implications of making the configuration change for allowing ad hoc distributed queries?
October 29, 2009 at 4:34 am
Ha! When I saw the title I thought will we be working at the bit level or at the higher object level. I didn't even think of the real (can't...
October 16, 2009 at 3:29 am
How common is this 4-4-5 (or variant) thinking in modern accounting systems? This is the first I've heard of it and I've DBA'ed behind three different fairly popular accounting systems,...
September 29, 2009 at 10:38 am
Then an old friend of mine had a saying - "You can't say 'yes' if you can't say 'no'."
In other words, I would presume that some people do not have...
June 23, 2009 at 7:46 am
Before I was a DBA I used to operate nuclear reactors for the US Navy. To be a qualified operator (in my case an EOOW) we had to (1) pass...
June 23, 2009 at 7:42 am
"WITH ENCRYPTION" should properly be called "WITH OBFUSCATION". It is a pretty simple XOR decryption routine to reverse the function and stored procedure "encryption" feature of SQL Server. This was...
April 10, 2009 at 9:28 am
Follow the money. Correct me if I'm wrong, but Flickr is free to all of its "customers" who upload photos. Its real customers are the byusinesses whose ads you see...
October 22, 2008 at 8:04 am
I've found two places - the regular expressions example is one where we've made a function that does a string comparison with regular expressions. I'm much more wary of the...
September 15, 2008 at 6:37 am
I think this is an age thing. Young people tend to be a little more naive and want to believe that they are judged strictly on some obscure thing called...
February 22, 2008 at 9:57 am
It is beyond me that they would even question the service pack paradigm. Absolutely YES. As a vendor we rely on the Service Pack break points for testing. Cumulative updates...
February 1, 2008 at 6:09 am
Oh, and I live in the same area where we have the advertisements to haul 1 ton 443 miles. My thought has always been, "How would I park a freight...
January 31, 2008 at 3:15 am
Steve,
Can you really compare a van to a Prius? Would you compare RAM or your Branson to your Prius? I realize you might have replaced a van with a Prius...
January 31, 2008 at 3:11 am
Two things - footprint and raw, blazing speed!
With a small footprint the target is small and much more manageable.
With a small kernel you can get blazing speed for what...
October 25, 2007 at 3:38 am
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