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  • RE: How to prevent a table from being truncated or dropped

    dndaughtery (7/20/2016)


    Hey guys, had one of my team members drop our main table by accident. Is there a way to prevent a table from being truncated or dropped? I tried...

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  • RE: Creating a DBA Oncall list to email to group.

    There is an existing operator, schedule, notification framework for use by SQL Agent and SQL Alerts, and you may be able to leverage these existing tables. What you're wanting to...

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  • RE: Scary Deployments

    We've all been in situations where the organization has a legacy application for which there is no designated owner; meaning that the developer who built and supported it left years...

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  • RE: Creating a DBA Oncall list to email to group.

    Which aspect of this do you need advice on?

    Create a table to contain one row for each DBA along with their contact details and what days of week / hours...

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  • RE: Scary Deployments

    Steve Jones - SSC Editor (7/19/2016)


    Eric M Russell (7/19/2016)


    I was listening to a web developer talk about some fundamental changes in a web platform. In this case, an older system...

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  • RE: Scary Deployments

    I was listening to a web developer talk about some fundamental changes in a web platform. In this case, an older system was being replaced completely with a new one,...

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

  • RE: T-SQL formatting tool

    For one-off or infrequent formatting, there are several web-based options.

    http://www.bing.com/search?q=online+t-sql+formatter

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  • RE: The Remote DBA

    SQLRNNR (7/18/2016)


    Definitely work from remote. It is easier to get more accomplished. There are typically fewer interruptions and fewer water cooler moments.

    When working remotely, one will miss out on a...

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  • RE: TEMPDB LOG explosive growth

    Hash matched joins between very large tables will also do it. I once had to troubleshoot an ETL process that would run for days until eventually filling a 1 TB...

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  • RE: Security is Getting Serious

    Many folks are willing to pay as much as 50% more for locally sourced food, thinking (for example) that milk or vegetables from China may be less wholesome and more...

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  • RE: Stairway to T-SQL: Beyond The Basics Level 8: Coding Shortcuts using += and -= Operators

    Any difference in exeution time would be the result of T-SQL syntax pre-processing; one is probably just a macro of the other. All other things being equal, the actual compiled...

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  • RE: The Remote DBA

    Even for those DBAs who work 8am - 6pm from the office, we bring our laptops home for on-call support. If we can handle emergencies remotely, then it's not that...

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  • RE: how backup is taken ?????

    BTW, how and why were the additional URL parameters added to my above link?

    Is this something new on SQLServerCentral?

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  • RE: how backup is taken ?????

    I'm not sure if SQL Server Express Edition has the 'Default Trace' turned on by default or even if it supports event auditing in general. A google search gave no...

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  • RE: Group that has SA and is denied connecting to server can still connect and SELECT

    Also keep in mind that these users may be members of yet another domain (or local admin) group that has a SQL Server login. For example, confirm if 'BUILTIN\Administrators' has...

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