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  • RE: Database in use

    Jeff Moden (8/19/2015)


    Jacob Wilkins (8/19/2015)


    I prefer to avoid all that silliness and set DBs offline with rollback immediate prior to restoring on top of them. I'm quite confident no one...

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

  • RE: MS-Jet Engine 4.x ODBC enabled databases to 1 Terabyte/5 billion rows (or) SQL SERVER?

    EricHansen,

    What you're proposing is edgy, and perhaps you're earnestly advocating this use of MS Jet database, because that's the database and set of API you're most familiar with. However, it...

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

  • RE: Can a hacker obtain database information from an unencrypted differential backup?

    There are 3rd party applications that can read SQL Server backups, so the file format must be published in public domain. It may not contain all the data necessary to...

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

  • RE: Survey: Number of Beers per Power Outage?

    Luis Cazares (9/24/2015)


    I'd go up to four. 😎

    Careful, when the servers finally do come back online, hopefully the database team won't be slumped face down on their desks snoozing. Or...

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

  • RE: ? Records that don't match from two db's...

    If you're looking for distinct members in one that don't exist in the other, or possibly members that exist between the two, then consider the EXCEPT and INTERSECT operations.

    https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms188055.aspx

    -- selects...

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

  • RE: Linked Server Performance

    Are you using distributed queries, that is a select statement that joins between the local and remote server using four part naming convention?

    Or are you using pass-through queries, that is...

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

  • RE: Data Masking for Convenience

    SQL Server "Dynamic Data Masking" is a perfect example of an IT vendor re-inventing the wheel and branding it, sort of like "Meta Data Services", "Always On Clustering", or "In-Memory...

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

  • RE: http://mirahealthgarciniablog.com/dermafy-solutions-cream/

    Your English compiles, but it's schizophrenic nonsense. Are you trying to sell of something here?

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

  • RE: Ecrypting the database objects - Cons and Pros

    As a side note, it appears that SQL Server does take at least some measures to respect the intent of stored procedure compiled using the "with encryption" option, by blocking...

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

  • RE: Ecrypting the database objects - Cons and Pros

    Regarding the Why of all this; if you are an ISV, and you don't want the business logic of the stored procedures to be in clear text, and the method...

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

  • RE: Inserting rows a row at a time instead of in batches- RBAR is faster???

    Matt Miller (#4) (9/23/2015)


    Maxer (9/23/2015)


    Eric M Russell (9/23/2015)


    Batching DML operations will always be faster than doing it one row at a time. However, keep in mind that a batch is...

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

  • RE: Ecrypting the database objects - Cons and Pros

    AER (9/22/2015)


    Hi Lowell,

    I'm a DBA who administer all the Company databases. By 'intellectual property' I meant the scripts that are written in the databases. The problem is that our Client...

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

  • RE: Inserting rows a row at a time instead of in batches- RBAR is faster???

    Batching DML operations will always be faster than doing it one row at a time. However, keep in mind that a batch is a single transaction, and splitting up a...

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

  • RE: Commercial Software with All Tables as Heaps and Terrible Performance

    For Heap tables, wasted page space (ie: ghost records) resulting from deletes and updates is not reclaimed, so that's one consideration. Also for Heap tables the file number, page number,...

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

  • RE: Data Sprawl

    xsevensinzx (9/23/2015)


    The last 3 companies I've talked to who are using the Microsoft stack for their applications have told me they are strongly considering NoSQL as an option. While they...

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

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