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...

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...

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

"I...

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...

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...

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...

amenjonathan (10/6/2010)

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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...

Steve Jones - SSC Editor (10/6/2010)

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Again, I don't have an answer. I don't...

david_wendelken (10/5/2010)

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bwillsie-842793 (10/5/2010)

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And, unfortunately, absolutely no one wants that, as everyone has a different opinion on what "equal" means.

Everyone wants...

If equality means maintaining a quota system, then it will hurt. However, if we hire based solely on a candidate's qualifications...

mstumpp (10/5/2010)

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Good discussion. However, one sentence caused me to read and re-read and re-read: "I think this was the precipice to his asking..." I think the word she should have...

I think that men and women bring to the table a set of distinct personality traits, some positive and some negative, at least in terms of their usefulness in IT....

Also remember that database backups are not just for production servers, it should also go for Development or QA environments as well. Even if the data itself is replaceable, the...