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  • RE: A Little Interviewing Advice

    OCTom (6/30/2011)


    Teamwork is overrated. I think the skillset and the willingness to learn new skills is more important. I have yet to see an employer value teamwork highly. They speak...

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

  • RE: The Age of Software

    Revenant (6/29/2011)


    Eric M Russell (6/29/2011)


    . . . Even a RDBMS like SQL Server which is built exclusively on Win32/64 executables should be able to retain that functionality regardless of wether...

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

  • RE: The Age of Software

    TravisDBA (6/29/2011)


    opc.three (6/28/2011)


    IceDread (6/27/2011)


    I know.. but I still think it's a big flaw.

    I am curious...I am not sure what you mean. Maybe it would help if I knew your standard...

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

  • RE: Workload splitting?

    PaulB-TheOneAndOnly (6/29/2011)


    Eric M Russell (6/27/2011)


    Actually, I think it may be possible for multiple SQL Server instances to share the same database files, but one requirement is that the database must...

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

  • RE: Changing the Oil In Your Server

    Decades ago, mainframe computers were very mechanical and actually did use oil and hydraulic cooling systems for the disk storage systems. They even experimented with steering wheel input devices.

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

  • RE: The Age of Software

    opc.three (6/28/2011)


    IceDread (6/27/2011)


    I know.. but I still think it's a big flaw.

    I am curious...I am not sure what you mean. Maybe it would help if I knew your standard for...

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

  • RE: Changing the Oil In Your Server

    Rebuild an index? What's wrong with it? Why didn't you do it right the first time?

    "Changing the oil" is a good analogy for rebuilding the indexes, because indexes are something...

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

  • RE: Which one is better select * into # temp from tableA Vs create #temp table insert into...

    Craig Farrell (6/27/2011)

    ...

    I agree, and it sounds like someone used a temp table for logical ease then for optimization concerns. Moving to temp tables of any form (not CTEs)...

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

  • RE: Workload splitting?

    Actually, I think it may be possible for multiple SQL Server instances to share the same database files, but one requirement is that the database must be on a read-only...

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

  • RE: Which one is better select * into # temp from tableA Vs create #temp table insert into...

    Craig Farrell (6/25/2011)


    Eric M Russell (6/25/2011)


    Craig Farrell (6/24/2011)


    ...

    Just to confirm, you're familiar with the fact that a CTE is nothing more then a subquery, and has no optimization value? ...

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

  • RE: Which one is better select * into # temp from tableA Vs create #temp table insert into...

    Craig Farrell (6/24/2011)


    ...

    Just to confirm, you're familiar with the fact that a CTE is nothing more then a subquery, and has no optimization value? It's merely there to allow...

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

  • RE: Which one is better select * into # temp from tableA Vs create #temp table insert into...

    The decision of temp table vs table variable vs CTE or etc. depends on how this intermediate resultset will be leveraged within the stored procedure.

    Where I've mostly used table variables...

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

  • RE: kindly give some solution

    GilaMonster (6/23/2011)


    ankit.shukla1105 (6/23/2011)


    The question was to practically demo how char uses up more space than varchar, so here's the demo.

    I created two tables, VarChar_Table and Char_Table as below:

    create table Char_Table...

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

  • RE: Regular Audit Analysis

    Some types of events warrant not just logging or auditing, but sending an immediate notification to the DBA's attention. For example there is no good reason for the following errors...

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

  • RE: Which one is better select * into # temp from tableA Vs create #temp table insert into...

    Jeff Moden (6/24/2011)


    I wasn't going to post until I got home from work to give some demo's (I don't have time while at work) but one of the things to...

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

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