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  • RE: The Problem Solver

    Iwas Bornready (8/31/2015)


    This was fun to read. I saw myself through out the brief article. Keeping in mind that not all problems presented to us are done so to get...

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

  • RE: Can't release space of temdb

    Welsh Corgi (8/31/2015)


    Eric M Russell (8/31/2015)


    TEMPDB will automatically shrink whenever SQL Server is restarted, which might be most reliable way to do this, if needed. However, unless your TEMPDB is...

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

  • RE: Can't release space of temdb

    TEMPDB will automatically shrink whenever SQL Server is restarted, which might be most reliable way to do this, if needed. However, unless your TEMPDB is competing for storage with other...

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

  • RE: No More Foreign Keys?

    I guess there will always be differences of opnion between those who see a database as basically a data reposity for an application, versus those who see a database as...

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

  • RE: No More Foreign Keys?

    Orphan records can pose serious problem in an operational or OLTP database. However, they are less of an issue in a data warehouse. There is this thing called "late arriving...

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

  • RE: No More Foreign Keys?

    Complaining about foreign keys is sort of like when folks complain about those cement barrades that divide north bound and south bound lanes on a highway or the speed bumps...

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

  • RE: ssrs 2012 displaying data inconsistently

    What is the source for the parameter values that should be included in this dropdown list?

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  • RE: The Problem Solver

    JustRightOfCenter (8/28/2015)


    @matt-2 Algate, thank you for pointing out the book. Just ordered two copies.

    @eric M Russell, example: I once had a user base whose performance reviews included a metric...

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

  • RE: NOSQL and RDBMSs

    g.britton (8/28/2015)


    Eric M Russell (8/28/2015)


    g.britton (8/28/2015)


    xsevensinzx (8/28/2015)


    ...

    SQL Server 2014 introduced Polybase just for reasons like that

    SQL Server has been tightly integrated with various forms of NoSQL data storage and query...

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

  • RE: NOSQL and RDBMSs

    g.britton (8/28/2015)


    xsevensinzx (8/28/2015)


    ...

    SQL Server 2014 introduced Polybase just for reasons like that

    SQL Server has been tightly integrated with various forms of NoSQL data storage and query access for decades. Analysis...

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

  • RE: The Problem Solver

    jay-h (8/28/2015)


    PAH-440118 (8/28/2015)


    .. I understood was when a woman tells a man a problem she doesn't necessarily want it fixed she wants him to understand what she has to put...

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

  • RE: The Problem Solver

    I'll admit that, if what someone really needs at the moment is a sympathetic listener, then I'm probably not the guy they want to turn to. It's doesn't come naturally,...

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

  • RE: The Problem Solver

    The best problem solvers don't just fix, we adapt and innovate.

    Take for example a scenario where office staff routinely print purchase orders from one application just so they can...

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

  • RE: Converting a column of type nvarchar to datetime

    tim_harkin (8/27/2015)


    Jeff Moden (8/19/2015)


    There are very few places in SQL Server that have nearly absolute rules but one of them is that you should never store dates or times in...

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

  • RE: read only database copy?

    TheSQLGuru (8/27/2015)


    You cannot time the restores based on no current connections to the database because in the finite time between determining no connections and getting the restore job kicked off...

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

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