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  • RE: Archiving

    One of my primary projects is developing and maintaining a reporting datamart for the accounting department. When a report is run, a dataset containing key and fact columns are queried...

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

  • RE: SQL Safety Nets

    David Portas (6/20/2011)


    Eric M Russell (6/14/2011)


    MS SQL and Oracle are first and formost relational database engines. If Microsoft thinks NoSQL datbase solutions are a market worth breaking into, then...

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

  • RE: Multiple Failures

    Somtimes one thing has to break before we discover that something else has been broken for a long time. For example, it takes a hurricane to reveal the fact that...

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

  • RE: Phrases that Resonate

    GSquared (6/16/2011)


    Peter Maloof (6/16/2011)


    Andy Warren (6/15/2011)


    Got a phrase that you use to share a difficult concept?

    Non-technical person: "It's working! What was the problem?"

    Me: "You don't really want to know."

    Non-technical person:...

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

  • RE: Phrases that Resonate

    andycao (6/16/2011)


    "Do you want a Yugo, a Buick, or a Porsche?" I use that when the business asks for a quick, but potentially long-living database application. Then I...

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

  • RE: The 5 First SQL Errors to Check For

    Regarding how to get a formatted list of columns, you can also query them from the information_schema.columns view and add things like commas as needed. Just drop this into your...

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

  • RE: Phrases that Resonate

    🙂

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

  • RE: Phrases that Resonate

    Never use phrases like "I think it's time the rich client got a new facelift" or "we need to dump our fat client for a thin client model" in front...

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

  • RE: The 5 First SQL Errors to Check For

    This may be the 5 most common T-SQL errors you'll encounter when typing into a SSMS query window, but I rarely see them in a production or QA envrironment, unless...

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

  • RE: SQL Safety Nets

    IceDread (6/15/2011)


    Eric M Russell (6/14/2011)


    EdVassie (6/13/2011)


    One of the big lessons of the last 10 years for the traditional database community has been the emergence of the NoSQL movement. Whatever...

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

  • RE: SQL Safety Nets

    EdVassie (6/13/2011)


    One of the big lessons of the last 10 years for the traditional database community has been the emergence of the NoSQL movement. Whatever you think caused this...

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

  • RE: SQL Safety Nets

    IceDread (6/10/2011)


    ORM is becoming more and more common in todays products and development of different solutions. With ORM we lose the power of security throu stored procedures.

    I would like to...

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

  • RE: SQL Safety Nets

    markjholmes (6/9/2011)


    Are you thinking a more paranoid Clippy? Or a grizzled old DBA Vet that's filled with sarcasm?

    Yes! We could call the first one Twitchy and the other...

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

  • RE: SQL Safety Nets

    Starting with SQL Server 2005, a lot of features that could potentially cause security holes are turned OFF by default, and I'd consider that a safety net. We also have...

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

  • RE: Setting up linked servers with an out-of-process OLEDB provider

    One of the best articles on the web for configuring linked server connections. The part that describes what specific resources a provider must be granted access to before it will...

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

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