If the IT workforce does shrink, it will be the button pushers who get phased out. Any IT function that doesn't require some degree of analysis or improvization can be...

IceDread (7/9/2015)

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Last report in Sweden is that we need more IT-staff, developers of all sorts. In the coming few years there is a report that the banks will need ~30%...

Have you considered modifying the T-SQL scripts, or perhaps there is...

jfogel (7/9/2015)

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I'm in my 40's and I know age isn't a friend in this line of work, mostly anyway. At my age I think I have a good feel for...

I believe there is more opportuity for an individual, even someone coming from a remote rural community with no formal engineering education, to be an IT entrepreneur or rock star...

sharon-472085 (7/8/2015)

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thanks you for replay,

so you say if column bigint define with null

and i didnt insert data to this column this column

will be null with...

Did you try enclosing path in double quotes?

Have you tried mounting the folder to the root of a new drive letter?

call.copse (7/8/2015)

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I liked this essay on the subject of not dropping out:

https://medium.com/essays-by-kern/don-t-drop-out-ed0e8d14e22d

I guess it is saying don't do bad courses, and appreciate the value of intellectual rigour of any discipline....

Not only will the *seek, *scan, and *lookup columns in sys.dm_db_index_usage_stats give hints about what indexes are used by queries, but it also contains *update columns indicating the number...

Jeff Oresik (7/7/2015)

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If it's so easy create things for your portfolio and history of work, why can't you just perform some of the tasks required for the job during the...

Steve Jones - SSC Editor (7/7/2015)

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ZZartin (7/7/2015)

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Well in all fairness any flatfile format that isn't properly generated on the source side is going to break your dataflow. As for...

It would be helpful if there were a way to alter an index such that it would still be maintained by DML operations but ignored by SQL queries. That way...

ZZartin (7/7/2015)

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Well in all fairness any flatfile format that isn't properly generated on the source side is going to break your dataflow. As for why csv are more popular...

When presented with what appears to be an impossible challenge; more often than not it's because the task is misunderstood by the developer, the requirements have not been properly defined,...