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  • RE: Advice Sought: Old vs. New Records

    First, I'd suggest a column called ClosedDate. But until you scale up to several millions of rows, then partitioning your table(s) for the sake of performance is not worthwhile. However,...

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

  • RE: Comparing 2 table values

    Take a look at the CHECKSUM() and CHECKSUM_AGG() functions.

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  • RE: Should Salary Information Be Confidential?

    If you want to know the salary of a specific US federal employee, someone has created a user friendly website using public data.

    http://www.fedsmith.com/2013/04/29/locating-the-salary-of-an-individual-federal-employee/

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  • RE: Should Salary Information Be Confidential?

    Jeff Moden (6/8/2015)


    Eric M Russell (6/8/2015)


    Jeff Moden (6/8/2015)


    Andy Warren (6/8/2015)


    Jeff, would you decline an offer from a company that publishes all salaries?

    Yes.

    Even if the company were financially stable, the IT...

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

  • RE: Should Salary Information Be Confidential?

    Jeff Moden (6/8/2015)


    Andy Warren (6/8/2015)


    Jeff, would you decline an offer from a company that publishes all salaries?

    Yes.

    Even if the company were financially stable, the IT projects interesting, and the published...

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

  • RE: Should Salary Information Be Confidential?

    David.Poole (6/7/2015)


    HR = Human Resources. If I am going to buy (hire) a resource then both I as a manager and the future employee both have an acceptable range...

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

  • RE: Table structure with a VIN

    I can see a user looking up a [single] automobile using VIN, so it needs to be included, not null, and indexed; maybe even uniquely indexed. However, just like FirstName...

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  • RE: Should Salary Information Be Confidential?

    I saw this the other day and thought it was kind of funny.

    Man Celebrates Raise Company Will Eventually Use To Justify Firing Him

    http://www.theonion.com/article/man-celebrates-raise-company-will-eventually-use-j-50485

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  • RE: Table structure with a VIN

    mwilliams4nc (6/5/2015)


    OK I see the advantages of a numerical ID for both my Vins table and my Orders tables.

    So is it like this then?

    tblVins

    -------

    VinID -- numeric -- Primary Key

    Vin --...

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  • RE: Should Salary Information Be Confidential?

    Lynn Pettis (6/5/2015)


    Eric M Russell (6/5/2015)


    Andy Warren (6/5/2015)


    Eric, I'd agree with that. But suppose there were two of you doing that. Same job, same skills. Virtual twins. Should they get...

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  • RE: Should Salary Information Be Confidential?

    Andy Warren (6/5/2015)


    Eric, I'd agree with that. But suppose there were two of you doing that. Same job, same skills. Virtual twins. Should they get paid the same?

    Two of me...

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  • RE: Should Salary Information Be Confidential?

    The way I see it, employees should be valued the same way realestate is valued. That is, employees should be valued based on their market scarcity and revenue generating potential....

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

  • RE: Sort Order Value

    Keep in mind that your reporting tool can apply it's own sorting regardless of what ORDER BY clause is specified in the SQL query.

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  • RE: How to find which columns in which tables in which databases content the needed value in sql?

    By default, SQL Server maintains histogram type statistics on columns referenced in conditional expressions. When supplied with table and column name, the DBCC SHOW_STATISTICS command will return a grouping of...

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  • RE: connection issue

    The coworker who can successfully login, have them come by your desk, and then do the following using your PC.

    While holding down Shift key, right click on the SSMS...

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