Fortunately the construction of the execution plan (for example which table is used as the outer or inner input on a nested loop or hash join) isn't dependent on how...

If I think of IBM DB2 as blue and Oracle as red, then I think of SQL Server as silver or maybe black.

Greg A Goss (6/24/2014)

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/raises hand

I second that "AAAAAARRRGH". I'm responsible for maintaining a web site that basically...

below86 (6/24/2014)

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lptech (6/23/2014)

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If many/most of your meetings are conference calls, you'll love this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbJAJEtNUX0

My manager's manager told us it was shown at off-site for higher ups as an example of what...

Tom Gillies (6/23/2014)

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@eric, You've got some good points there

"How data is conformed, constraints, and exceptioned is definately something that needs to be documented upfront." - I wholeheartedly agree.

The "Date" constraint....

The bulk of all meetings should be the dial in conference call type. Those who want to crowd out the conversation and debate some narrow topic are free to do...

Often times developers are reluctant to hard code domain or relational constraints, because there are no written specifications formally defining what should be considered valid. How data is conformed, constraints,...

tcronin 95651 (6/18/2014)

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market for dba's too good to put up with this. Dont let technology ruin your life. We are paid well but when you figure out the...

I know what it's like to be the last line of defense for one or more key database systems, if not at the sysadmin side then at least on the...

shahgols (6/12/2014)

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I had to fight the storage guys for 2...

Hollywood should make a film called "A Day Without a DBA" just to show the ignorant public (and cocky app developers) what a total global disaster it would be if...

The way I see it: the application is like the busboy, waiter, and Maitre d', while the the database is like the chef.

Now check your indexes for fragmentation.

Well, column positioning in SQL is one of those eternal questions...

Let's meet up here...

Thomas Abraham (5/30/2014)

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If you are afraid of taking time away from work (using words like 'nervous' and 'scary'), perhaps you derive too much of your own sense of worth from...