chris.warriner (10/14/2009)

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Hi, this is an interesting post for me as I am one of the "newbies" that perhaps one or two of you may be referring to. I am not...

mtucker-732014 (10/13/2009)

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Thats an interesting question.

Im not sure the qualities of any great figure in history, let alone Generals would be ideal for a DBA, those people tend to be tremendously...

jcrawf02 (10/13/2009)

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Roy Ernest (10/13/2009)

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All of you are going to wear Kilt? Can we the of THE THREAD who cannot make it get a pic so that we can see? :-)...

Roy,...

Since most of the denizens of The Thread are not on Twitter, I should spread the word here as well. In my absolute dictatorial power as no one of consequence,...

blandry (10/13/2009)

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One of the toughest things about hiring people is that you want someone who is motivated and to some degree a self-starter, but you also want a team player...

skjoldtc (10/12/2009)

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Many employment ads will list terms such as self-starter but they will also list that you must be able to work in a team. One who is really a...

Preet_S (10/12/2009)

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Spent some time investigating this (in test & live environments) and researching how execution plans are cached and what Parameter sniffing is, hence the delay.

The problem was as...

GSquared (10/13/2009)

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Grant Fritchey (10/13/2009)

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mazzz (10/13/2009)

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Somewhat off-topic (to the topic that is currently off-topic, that is):

IIRC someone who frequents the Thread writes fiction - have I imagined this? Any pointers as...

mazzz (10/13/2009)

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Somewhat off-topic (to the topic that is currently off-topic, that is):

IIRC someone who frequents the Thread writes fiction - have I imagined this? Any pointers as to who it...

jcrawf02 (10/9/2009)

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Grant, I'm bummed that I missed the Columbus chapter meeting last night, life happened 😉

Don't suppose Jeremiah recorded it, or you have an upcoming session somewhere else on LiveMeeting...

Hmmm... Is the cost threshold for parallelism the same on all the servers?

Absolutely. You have an obligation to yourself to maintain or grow your skill set. Or, you can let your skills stagnate and atrophy and hope that the job your in...

Jeff Moden (10/8/2009)

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Heh... I was scrolling "up" through the thread when I...

What do you mean performance testing or functional tests? Many of the functions supported by these have examples that you can use listed in Books Online.