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  • RE: Programmers v Salespeople

    Revenant (2/17/2012)


    If you watch TV commercials, you may notice that the best salesmen are cute kids, dogs, and cats, in this order. No experience necessary.

    Draw your own conclusions, DBAs....

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

  • RE: Programmers v Salespeople

    Steve Jones - SSC Editor (2/17/2012)


    Jack Corbett (2/17/2012)


    I think commissions for sales people is the best way to compensate them. You provide a lower guaranteed salary so...

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

  • RE: Programmers v Salespeople

    RobertYoung (2/17/2012)


    It appears to have gone away, but Spolsky did a great piece on pricing (and by example, sales staffing) of software. The title is "Camels and Rubber Duckies",...

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

  • RE: Programmers v Salespeople

    There are high value IT developers, salespeople, support staff, and executives; these are people who would have a high replacement cost if they left the company, and the cost would...

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

  • RE: Foreign key constraints

    First consider there may be strong and compelling reasons to just keep the primary key on a natural non-clustered column(s) and have the table's clustered key on a timestamp or...

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

  • RE: Moving database

    Describing the process of migrating a SQL Server database from one version to another as "switching a LUN" is definately a reductionist view of things.

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

  • RE: How to get data from orcale

    The full Oracle client is a monster, and server admins are sometimes reluctant about intalling it. If all you need is connectivity for a linked server connection or SSIS, then...

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

  • RE: Anonymous Research

    TravisDBA (2/13/2012)


    Eric M Russell (2/13/2012)


    TravisDBA (2/13/2012)


    Steve,

    It's tricky. Even if all I had available were ZIP code, birthdate and sex columns, I could still probably identify who you are. But on...

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

  • RE: Anonymous Research

    TravisDBA (2/13/2012)


    Steve,

    It's tricky. Even if all I had available were ZIP code, birthdate and sex columns, I could still probably identify who you are. But on the other hand, If...

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

  • RE: msdb is 45g sys.sysobjvalues is the issue

    What can I do about a 35g sys.sysobjvalues table? My msdb database is 45g and I have cleared backup tables and mail tables. I ran a query to find which...

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

  • RE: Anonymous Research

    You might not think this is a big deal, but as more data is gathered by companies and used for secondary purposes, like analysis, it becomes more likely to be...

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

  • RE: Tips to optimize your SQL statements

    1) Check if you're missing any required table joins. This can easily happen and the output will be a Cartesian join ...

    2) Check if you're missing any required WHERE clause....

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

  • RE: Query accounts, domain groups, and members who have admin membership.

    Geoff A (2/9/2012)


    Nice article, but there is an issue with Windows 2008 and xp_logininfo.

    Since my domain is all Windows 2008, the column logininfo_note is always either NULL or xp_logininfo returned...

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

  • RE: Query accounts, domain groups, and members who have admin membership.

    Nadrek (2/9/2012)


    Very useful, though for anyone doing a more comprehensive security audit, I'd refer to Vyaskin's code, which I modified only slightly:

    The script you posted is great for scripting out...

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

  • RE: Query accounts, domain groups, and members who have admin membership.

    mw162 (2/9/2012)


    Really useful thanks. Was only looking at this myself yesterday but didn't go the extent of group members. I've amended the script slightly for our use to show the...

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

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