GSquared (10/25/2010)

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"If" statements have to make sure every possible outcome can compile and run without errors. That's why they give errors as if an option had run that really...

jeff.mason (10/25/2010)

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Thomas-282729 (10/24/2010)

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Robert Frasca (10/12/2010)

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Other than for merge and updatable transactional replication, I've yet to hear an argument as to why an identifier has to be globallyunique. Sure, it...

Thomas-282729 (10/24/2010)

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1) DISK SPACE isn't what is important, it is THROUGHPUT, and that is dramatically affected by the quadruple-int-sized GUIDs. MEMORY is a precious commodity (on most systems) for the...

Here in the US, SOX regulations require certain types of companies retain printed hard copies of critical financial and operations related reports, and this the source for a lot of...

Jeff Moden (10/21/2010)

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Steve Jones - SSC Editor (9/20/2010)

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Eric Russell 13013 (9/20/2010)

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Whenever someone requests the creation of a new report, and the specifications don't seem clear or feasible (for example 50...

Randy Emerson (9/21/2010)

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I haven't found a solution yet. But here is why we are trying this solution. We have an address table which needs to be referenced from...

GSquared (10/18/2010)

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SanDroid (10/12/2010)

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David Walker-278941 (10/12/2010)

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I originally didn't like GUIDs because I thought they used too much "space". They really don't. Disk space is cheap, and GUIDs are only...

In Oracle...

samalex (10/18/2010)

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Hope you guys don't mind me chiming in... We're working on a new system now, and my goal is to have a globally unique ID (whether INT or UNIQUEIDENTIFIER)...

Doug Lane (10/15/2010)

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Ben Moorhouse (10/15/2010)

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With disk space getting cheaper and cheaper, I'm considering doing some basic disaster recovery for home.

Copying all music/photos etc onto a big disk and taking it...

Regarding...

This is regarding how a company should go about quantifying the extent of investment required for disaster recovery. From my experience, the frequency of a company wide network outage tends...

nick.mcdermaid (10/14/2010)

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Here are my thoughts after going from many years SQL Server to an extended project in Oracle:

I certainly found a lot of things in Oracle quite 'alien' to me...

PaulB-TheOneAndOnly (10/13/2010)

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Always remember SQL Server carries Sybase genes; don't look at SQL Server 4.0 as SQL Server date of...

SQL Server is to Windows what Oracle is to Unix. Oracle has been around since the 70s or early 80s, and it carries...