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  • RE: No Overtime

    Where I am now, there is an on-call rotation for DBA team members. If you're on-call for current week, then you're the primary contact for production support issues during or...

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  • RE: MS SQL vs Oracle

    raven066 (3/3/2016)


    HI All,

    Recently i was thinking about Oracle, beacuse right now I'm MS SQL DBA/DEVELOPER.

    Some people said that oracle is future, and i'm little bit confused.

    Can Senior members in...

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  • RE: Examining SQL Server 2016

    Live Query Statistics, the ability view the execution plan of a running query, that just awesome.

    https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn831878.aspx

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  • RE: No Overtime

    For those of you who routinely work overtime, does your boss ask you to work overtime, or do you simply feel compelled to put in extra hours when working on...

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  • RE: Is PowerShell Intimidating?

    Jeff Moden (3/30/2016)


    Manic Star (3/30/2016)


    Powershell is awesome! Then i'm a former developer, so it was like the power of .net without the annoying user interface layer to program. It just...

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  • RE: Track Your Consultants

    kiwood (3/30/2016)


    While I agree with tracking your consultants, this tends to miss huge issue. For all you know, the guy who appears to need help opening a web browser...

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  • RE: Examining SQL Server 2016

    The addition of primary keys, foreign keys, and non-clustered indexes to Clustered ColumnStore makes it more of a mature candidate for data warehousing tables. Also, our department may be implementing...

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  • RE: Track Your Consultants

    Has anyone confirmed this works with SSMS and know what steps are needed for the client side connection?

    How to configure SSL encryption in SQL Server

    https://www.mssqltips.com/sqlservertip/3299/how-to-configure-ssl-encryption-in-sql-server/

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  • RE: Track Your Consultants

    I'd be more wary of fresh interns and fly by night contractors than I would consultants.

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  • RE: Cross data between Oracle and SQL

    ODBC is just the provider library. OLEDB is another option, but I guess you're really asking about how to setup a linked server, for querying Oracle within SQL Server.

    To create...

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  • RE: Track Your Consultants

    Where does optional SSL encryption fit into this picture? Does anyone here use this?

    https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms189067(v=sql.105).aspx

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  • RE: On formatting SQL code

    andrew gothard (3/29/2016)


    Eric M Russell (3/29/2016)


    If management measures developer productivity by the daily average number of lines coded and unit tested, then that obviously influences how aggressively you would use...

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  • RE: DBA Service

    Ask them what monitoring tools they use: SQLSentry, RedGate SQL Monitor, etc. They should also provide you with regular status reports and visibility into the monitoring logs.

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  • RE: On formatting SQL code

    If management measures developer productivity by the daily average number of lines coded and unit tested, then that obviously influences how aggressively you would use line breaks. 😎

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  • RE: Varchar usage

    Setting the upper limit on a VarChar(X) column is a form of logical constraint where X is the maximum length of data that a user would correctly supply. It's sort...

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