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  • RE: Limitations of MongoDb

    Andrew..Peterson (3/10/2015)


    About a year ago, a big technology company started a complete re-write of their applications, with the initial hope of completely eliminating their relational database system. Their initial goal...

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

  • RE: Limitations of MongoDb

    Disclaimer: I have no practical experience with MongoDB at this point, so if my assumptions below are wrong, then please let me know.

    I can see MongoDB as an ideal...

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

  • RE: Joining on a table with a Unique Clustered Index

    CREATE CLUSTERED INDEX IX_UNIQUE_KEY ON MRP.Margin_Optimization_Data (UNIQUE_KEY);

    If IX_UNIQUE_KEY is intended to be a unique key, then you probably want to add the UNIQUE keyword.

    CREATE UNIQUE CLUSTERED INDEX IX_UNIQUE_KEY

    ON...

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

  • RE: Fifty Words for Databases

    DBA's arn't born cranky; it's an acquired attitude. It does seem to me that unqualified developers (at least in terms of database design) get the first crack at a new...

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  • RE: Fifty Words for Databases

    GoofyGuy (3/9/2015)


    Any suggestions for suitable descriptive words for types of database?

    'Web service'.

    Abstracting out the database layer from the application offers a number of advantages -- not the least of...

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

  • RE: Your Tools

    I wish that Microsoft would put a bit more development into the SSMS Database Diagrammer tool. It's OK, for basic modeling, but it's limitations quickly become apparent when it comes...

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

  • RE: Fifty Words for Databases

    In recent versions of SQL Server, we now have a handful of table types to choose from: traditional row store, Heckaton in-memory (high volume OLTP), ColumnStore (data warehousing). Each table...

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

  • RE: Fifty Words for Databases

    I'm convinced that no more than 1 in 4 IT shops, and this includes everything from two man startups to major corporations, really just don't "get" database engineering. If you've...

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

  • RE: Identity key (unique column) not behaving properly

    sqlcentral.dah328 (3/5/2015)


    sql-lover (3/5/2015)


    sqlcentral.dah328 (3/4/2015)


    I ran into this same problem with SQL Server 2012 and this was one of the few places where anyone took seriously the possibility that the identity...

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

  • RE: SQL 2012 Query not efficient

    I'm assuming the goal here is the retreive the latest DUESTATUS and COMPSTATUS for each PERSID, and what we have to work with is a table containing one record for...

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  • RE: No State Based Deployments

    There are a lot of scenarios where SSMS table designer or a schema compare tool will want to rename / create / select / insert, when a simple ALTER TABLE...

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

  • RE: SQL 2012 Query not efficient

    Looking at the SQL, it appears that PERSON doesn't contain one row per person but rather multiple rows per person for each status change. I think you can leverage row_number()...

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  • RE: No State Based Deployments

    Peter Schott (3/4/2015)


    Eric M Russell (3/4/2015)


    For those of you who work in shops where developers make in-place changes to database objects and deployments are based on comprehensive delta scripts, how...

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

  • RE: Changing DB Mode from Single user to Multi user.

    I'm not sure, but with a database in SINGLE_USER mode, I think it's possible for a non-sysadmin user to login and block even the DBA, or the DBA may be...

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

  • RE: No State Based Deployments

    For those of you who work in shops where developers make in-place changes to database objects and deployments are based on comprehensive delta scripts, how do you implement versioned source...

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