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  • RE: The Rich Rewards of Tuning SQL

    Comparing adding $2k iron against the cost of "fixing" the code misses out the long term cost of not "fixing" the code. People have mentioned "mindset" and I would have...

    Gaz

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  • RE: ‘Twas the night before the upgrade…

    A little late to the party (for many tedious reasons) but thoroughly enjoyed nonetheless!!!

    Gaz

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  • RE: Interrupt Me, I'm Stagnating

    Sometimes I find the answer when I am stagnating (it's me stagnating - not the job!!!) to go away and have a blow out of a weekend. The format of...

    Gaz

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  • RE: Script improvement advice.

    If you changed the line:

    Test-SQLConnection -Instances $svr

    to

    $testResults = Test-SQLConnection -Instances $svr

    then you can create a CSV file with the following line:

    $testResults | Export-Csv "C:\testResults.csv"

    and output it to the screen as...

    Gaz

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  • RE: We Want Maturity, But Is It Fun?

    I spent three quarters of an hour responding to this first thing this morning only to lose it due to stupid Internet access problems. So, probably to your advantage, you...

    Gaz

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  • RE: Kitchen Culture

    GoofyGuy (12/22/2014)


    Do you care about the space provided for lunch (or breakfast, or dinner if you prefer)? Have you seen a correlation between how that space is set up and...

    Gaz

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  • RE: Kitchen Culture

    I have worked at a lot of company sites located in old buildings (by UK standards) so often the opportunity to have an adequate kitchen was difficult let alone great...

    Gaz

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  • RE: What counts for a DBA: Responsibility

    Us developers can support our DBA chums by accepting and self-enforcing SQL coding standards whether we agree with them or not (they are usually well thought out and the pros...

    Gaz

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  • RE: The Wish List

    ...a little more patience.

    Gaz

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  • RE: Deleting Data

    I think that this all leads to a two tier Internet. This is like the early days of the web where AOL (I think) users had a simplified view of...

    Gaz

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  • RE: Byte Me: Yule Log On

    Most people have a virtual Christmas anyway 😉

    Gaz

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  • RE: Drop and Recreate

    daxz (12/15/2014)


    Go even one more step with DDL triggers. Log everything happening at DDL level from the servers themselves. This way you track normal releases and the dynamic changes to...

    Gaz

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  • RE: Data Security Woes

    I'm not sure if that means that the criminals are incredibly smart or the way most of us implement security is done poorly.

    Yes. Both.

    Gaz

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  • RE: Go Small

    Steve Jones - SSC Editor (12/17/2014)


    ...You don't have to do things on Saturday, my wife wouldn't, but many would...

    No. Not Saturdays. I am running about on Astroturf swinging my carbon...

    Gaz

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