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  • RE: Data Warehouse Design Issue

    mar.ko (7/7/2015)


    Guys - I got no response in the database design subforum, so I thought I would cross post this here:

    We are stuck with the task of building a warehouse...

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

  • RE: robocopy and named instances

    If you don't have time for puzzle solving and just need it to work, then consider mapping the folder under another share name that doesn't contain the '\xxxx$xxxx\' portion.

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

  • RE: Is the Golden Age of Information Technology Almost Over?

    I judge everyone on an individual basis, but my suspicion is that most of these IT workers who are mass produced from government sponsored training programs are essentially button pushers....

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

  • RE: Is the Golden Age of Information Technology Almost Over?

    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...

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

  • RE: Is the Golden Age of Information Technology Almost Over?

    IceDread (7/9/2015)


    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%...

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

  • RE: robocopy and named instances

    kathy.plamann (7/8/2015)


    ...

    I use Ola Hallegren's backups which create a folder called xxxx$xxxx. Robocopy can't seem to handle the $.

    ...

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

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

  • RE: Is the Golden Age of Information Technology Almost Over?

    jfogel (7/9/2015)


    ...

    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...

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

  • RE: Is the Golden Age of Information Technology Almost Over?

    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...

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

  • RE: SIZE OF NULL COLUMN

    sharon-472085 (7/8/2015)


    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...

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

  • RE: robocopy and named instances

    Did you try enclosing path in double quotes?

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

  • RE: robocopy and named instances

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

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

  • RE: Training Computer Scientists

    call.copse (7/8/2015)


    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....

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

  • RE: Index Changes in Production and baseline

    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...

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

  • RE: Why Can't We Code?

    Jeff Oresik (7/7/2015)


    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...

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  • RE: I Feel Like a Magician

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


    ZZartin (7/7/2015)


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

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