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  • RE: A Note to My Fellow Application Developers about Knowing Our Limits

    Question Guy (6/2/2011)


    Ya, I had to get out of being a jack-of-all trades. It was great to learn a bunch of different stuff of course, but the problem was,...

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

  • RE: The Backup Passwords

    All this talk about code books and elaborate schemes for generating one-off passwords sounds like overkill. If a tornado should strike your company headquarters, I hope you have a backup...

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

  • RE: A Note to My Fellow Application Developers about Knowing Our Limits

    If you're an employee or sub-contractor, then you can (and should) acknowledge the need for external expertise, but that decision is ultimately out of your hands.

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

  • RE: The Ad Hoc Change

    Steve Jones - SSC Editor (5/31/2011)


    Assertions are a great extra check, Eric. Thanks for the note.

    I'd much rather have the production control team notify me that a script failed to...

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

  • RE: The Ad Hoc Change

    One other thing I'd like to add about deploying ad-hoc change scripts; I also wrap the DML or procedure calls in a transaction and add assertions on the expected number...

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

  • RE: The Ad Hoc Change

    In the past, whenver a "data fix" was required in production; a change order was created, and I'd write a T-SQL script which would go though the normal version control,...

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

  • RE: Linq and database security

    Ukon (5/28/2011)


    Hello again! I agree, using Linq with stored procedures, I believe would work quite nicely. I have no objection to that at all. I was only concerned regarding the...

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

  • RE: Linq and database security

    You can bind LINQ to stored procedures, but it would involve more coding. As a compromise you could offer to create a collection of views for use by their application....

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

  • RE: Forcing a query plan to stay in memory?

    sqldba_icon (5/23/2011)


    This job runs once everyday. I have nailed it down to a select statement which has the issue. So if i run this select first time, it will take...

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

  • RE: The Backup Passwords

    Managing backups has never been my role, so I'm not too familiar with the technicals of how the various 3rd party solutions manage the keys. My question is: Does the...

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

  • RE: Help please - impossible is happening.

    As already suggested, look at the query execution plan to know what happending. To help things, I'd suggest inner joining that table SaveSets instead of using a sub-select in the...

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

  • RE: Detecting Changes to a Table

    Lawrence Moore (5/23/2011)


    Hi Eric,

    Many thanks for your post.

    It is true that DMVs offer lots of useful information, some of which could be applied for requirements discussed in my article.

    However, DMVs...

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

  • RE: Detecting Changes to a Table

    virtualjosh (5/23/2011)


    I use system tables to see if the table has been updated:

    SELECT @expiration_dt = [modify_date]

    FROM [mydb].[sys].[tables]

    WHERE [name] = 'mytable'

    If I detect @expiration_dt to be newer than my stored...

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

  • RE: Detecting Changes to a Table

    SQL Server maintains statistics, which includes counts and timestamps, whenever table indexes are updated. This meta data can be queried from an interesting data management view called sys.dm_db_index_usage_stats. For some...

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

  • RE: SQL Server Job/Volunteer

    Just show up for their next monthly meeting.

    http://www.sqlpass.org/PASSChapters.aspx

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

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