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  • RE: Not Useless Features

    MDS (Master Data Services) is one feature I wish Microsoft would deprecate. From a database engineering, management, and performance perspective; it simply sucks.

    I'd like to see some effort...

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  • RE: Avoiding Development Taxes

    romefor4 - Friday, December 1, 2017 4:49 AM

    Eric M Russell - Tuesday, November 21, 2017 7:36 AM

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  • RE: Certifying Schools

    If I were to go back to school, I'd probably peruse a MBA degree or MIS (Management of Information Systems) degree; something that would augment what I already know (database...

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  • RE: Certifying Schools

    I'm not saying that a traditional university degree is not beneficial; it does make one a more rounded person, and I can understand why organizations would be skeptical of someone's...

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  • RE: Certifying Schools

    The healthcare, higher education, and banking industries are in bad need of reform. They seem intentionally structured to utilize whatever take home pay an average middle class person has after...

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

  • RE: SSIS Database with lots of space

    river1 - Tuesday, November 28, 2017 9:07 AM

    Understood. What about maintenace tasks? What are you using for this database?

    I am using OLA...

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

  • RE: Creating a PDF from a Stored Procedure

    Dating back to 2002, SSRS has had export to PDF functionality. I'd use that.

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  • RE: Unusually Expensive Deletes

    The excessive reads probably have to do with triggers, indexes, and foreign key constraints. It's also possible that the number of reads are reasonable but it's just getting a lot...

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  • RE: Best DB advice - very basic and general

    tommyleo - Tuesday, October 24, 2017 3:25 PM

    Hello to everyone,

    I rsearched in this forum but could not find pertinent advice... which is...

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  • RE: Good to have Multiple Data Warehouses?

    Perhaps we're not really talking about the need for (2) data warehouses but rather an architecture of multiple distributed databases that are federated into a single logical data warehouse (think...

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  • RE: The Pressure to Perform

    Jack 49290 - Wednesday, November 22, 2017 3:21 AM

    From Code Magazine .... Legal Notes: Should Software Developers Be...

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  • RE: The Most Wanted Upgrade

    SSMS, MSSQL, VisualStudio, Slack and Chrome can be memory hogs, and I often times must choose 3 out of 5 at any given time, so the most wanted upgrade for...

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  • RE: Why dbid is 1 for master, 2 for tempdb, 3 for model and 4 for msdb?

    patrickmcginnis59 10839 - Tuesday, November 21, 2017 8:29 AM

    tempdb is re-created every time SQL Server is started so...

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  • RE: Why dbid is 1 for master, 2 for tempdb, 3 for model and 4 for msdb?

    Like I said earlier, the id assignment of system databases simply results from the order in which the database are created during installation. It has nothing to do with startup....

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  • RE: Avoiding Development Taxes

    ... This is the same reason why I'd say that it's worth sticking with a database platform or two and not experimenting with each new type of system that...

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