Forum Replies Created

Viewing 15 posts - 2,341 through 2,355 (of 6,041 total)

  • RE: Up, Up, and Away

    After reading up on the process of how 'Lutefisk' is prepared, I'm left with the impression that it's nothing like the popular Spanish dish 'Ceviche'.

    http://mylittlenorway.com/2009/12/lutefisk/

    "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho

  • RE: Up, Up, and Away

    xsevensinzx (8/25/2016)


    Hope you enjoy Oslo, Norway. I was able to relocate there for the company I worked for 4 years ago. It was also my longest business trip before I...

    "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho

  • RE: Better Coding

    Federal contractors, at least within the realm of IT, farm the actual work out to sub-contractors anyhow, and I can tell you that those sub-contractors are no more skilled than...

    "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho

  • RE: Better Coding

    Matt Miller (#4) (8/25/2016)


    SQLBill (8/25/2016)


    Eric M Russell (8/25/2016)


    I'm not surprised that a small group of students could take a public dataset and spin up a better application than the original...

    "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho

  • RE: The Future for Database Administrators

    Markus (8/25/2016)


    Gary Varga (8/25/2016)


    Markus (8/25/2016)


    ...The days of a DBAs duties are changing that is for sure.

    Changing for sure. That's nothing new. The change might be new but that it is...

    "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho

  • RE: The Future for Database Administrators

    An organization can spend millions on infrastructure, fancy BI tools, and contractors, but it will collapse like a house of cards unless they have a team of solid DBAs and...

    "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho

  • RE: Better Coding

    I'm not surprised that a small group of students could take a public dataset and spin up a better application than the original government IT contractors. When dealing with non-sensitive...

    "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho

  • RE: Buffer pool memory questions

    Tac11 (8/24/2016)


    Thanks Eric and SQL Guru.

    Eric, so you think I can run "sys.dm_db_index_usage_stats" and find if there are index scan taking place?

    or any other step should I take?

    or...

    "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho

  • RE: Buffer pool memory questions

    If a query is performing full table scans on some large tables, then you want those tables to be held in the buffer cache so they arn't read physically from...

    "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho

  • RE: how to unit test sprocs?

    Grant Fritchey (8/24/2016)


    It will do the business validations, absolutely. You just have to write the tests. There's not a tool out there that knows your business well enough to automatically...

    "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho

  • RE: Buffer pool memory questions

    Every time a data or index page is read, it's first copied to the page buffer pool. Pages are allocated and deallocated based on the frequency of their usage, and...

    "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho

  • RE: The Future for Database Administrators

    Whenever I change jobs or projects, I context switch between being primarily a DBA or Database Developer, both of which cross-over into tasks that could be best described as DevOps....

    "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho

  • RE: Partitioning worthwhile?

    What partitioning brings to the table are things like partition switching, partial backups, partition level reindexing / compression, etc.

    But 100K rows and 500MB small; you could fit that in an...

    "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho

  • RE: LOB data types

    Reply back with the actual error or warning message you are getting. Are you sure it mentions 'LOB' ?

    For example, if you attempt to create an index on a set...

    "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho

  • RE: The Future for Database Administrators

    The career path of IT professionals is a lot like actors, you don't want to allow yourself to become type casted in terms of a role or industry, and you...

    "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho

Viewing 15 posts - 2,341 through 2,355 (of 6,041 total)