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  • RE: Are There That Many GUIDs?

    GSquared (10/18/2010)


    SanDroid (10/12/2010)


    David Walker-278941 (10/12/2010)


    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...

  • RE: Are There That Many GUIDs?

    samalex (10/18/2010)


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    It'd be nice if Microsoft would create a numeric data type that works as streamlined as a GUID but being more akin to an Identity field.

    Sam

    In Oracle...

  • RE: Are There That Many GUIDs?

    samalex (10/18/2010)


    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)...

  • RE: Risk Analysis

    Doug Lane (10/15/2010)


    Ben Moorhouse (10/15/2010)


    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...

  • RE: Risk Analysis

    Annette Ehrlich (10/15/2010)


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    We are well prepared in the event that this office becomes a hole in the ground, I am glad to say, though I certainly hope that never happens.

    Regarding...

  • RE: Risk Analysis

    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...

  • RE: Learning Oracle

    nick.mcdermaid (10/14/2010)


    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...

  • RE: Learning Oracle

    PaulB-TheOneAndOnly (10/13/2010)


    Eric Russell 13013 (10/13/2010)


    On the other hand, SQL Server is newer ...

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

  • RE: Learning Oracle

    harrifolfenced (10/13/2010)


    what are advantages of oracle over sql

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

  • RE: Are There That Many GUIDs?

    As for global uniqueness, I don't see why the column combination (center_id + cashregister_id + transaction_date) or database id + transaction identity id would not be as reliable, or more...

  • RE: Are There That Many GUIDs?

    TheSQLGuru (10/12/2010)


    <SmartA$$ ON>I LOVE it when clients use GUIDs in their database schemas - more tuning work for me!! 😀 <SmartA$$ OFF>

    Oh, come on! That's like a personal trainer saying:

    "I...

  • RE: Are There That Many GUIDs?

    The whole idea of encoding your server's network id and date/time stamp inside the primary key is practically a form of denormalization. For example, if you have a point of...

  • RE: Are There That Many GUIDs?

    What a weird coincidence; only a few nights ago, I had a dream that our precious reserve of globally unique identifiers was becomming depleted by poor database architecture design and...

  • RE: Downtime

    Four hours of downtime isn't bad for a disaster recovery, and assuming it was completed off peak hours, and the users were notified ahead of time, then it seems like...

  • RE: No, I do not provide childcare at my technology events...

    amenjonathan (10/6/2010)


    Agree with Eric, and it's something that's very common sense. Some industries are more inclined to attract male or females. Much of which I believe is pre-determined by the...

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