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  • RE: SQL Knowledge Transfer for new project

    What I'd focus on is any and all automated tasks and any and all regular manual tasks they do.

    Do they have scheduled backups?

    Do they test them regularly? Automated or...

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  • RE: rebuild index with -2

    There's data about online index operations here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms191261.aspx

    Specifics about an online rebuild are here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms188388.aspx

    It specifically says:

    ONLINE = { ON | OFF }

    Specifies whether underlying tables and associated indexes...

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  • RE: Technical Interview - I feel dumb now.... :)

    Makes sense.

    All the questions you listed would be dev/performance tuning. The performance tuning and monitoring part of it is usually a DB Admin task. But, as usual, most...

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  • RE: rmove leading zeros

    You don't actually need the case statement:

    SELECT STUFF(Y, 1, PATINDEX('%[^0]%', Y)-1, '')

    FROM (VALUES('123'),('0123'),('000123')) AS X(Y);

    Works just fine.

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  • RE: rmove leading zeros

    ColdCoffee (3/29/2012)


    THis?

    SELECT Tab.String

    ,NewStr = CASE WHEN LEFT(Tab.String,1) = '0' THEN STUFF (Tab.String,1, 1 , '' )

    ...

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  • RE: Whose job is it?

    Either a DDL trigger that sends you an alert, or a "DBA" database that can be used to log things like "have I set up maintenance plans and backups for...

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  • RE: Technical Interview - I feel dumb now.... :)

    Schema Binding is pretty specific, and not that common a concept. It's got it's uses, mainly in high-end performance-tuning, but I wouldn't consider that a pass/fail question on an...

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  • RE: rmove leading zeros

    DECLARE @string VARCHAR(7) = '000123';

    WHILE SUBSTRING(@string, 1, 1) = '0'

    SET @string = STUFF(@string, 1, 1, '');

    SELECT @string;

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  • RE: Return records with Max Sequence Number

    If you need the top value per company, then Max and Group By is the way to go. If you simply need the highest value (ties?) then Top 1...

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  • RE: Are SQL Server DBA salaries going up dramatically?

    It'll depend on the local market. I make about the national average for a DBA with my level of experience, but I live in an area with less than...

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  • RE: Aggregated Filter

    I don't have any DBA certs/degrees/whatever either. Been one successfully for over 10 years now. Get paid a lot for it, too.

    The people forbidding temp tables probably just...

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  • RE: Is Computer Science Dead?

    Lynn Pettis (3/28/2012)


    James Stover (3/28/2012)


    Computer science isn't dead, but the way it's taught probably is. By the time you finish a four-year degree in CompSci, much of what you learned...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Koen Verbeeck (3/28/2012)


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    SQLRNNR (3/27/2012)


    When did we start doing milestones for the 5k posts? I thought it was 10k.

    A milestone is a milestone is a milestone, don't be...

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  • RE: SQL 2012 RTM 64bit Install Fails on Windows Server 8 Beta

    Sqlchicken (3/27/2012)


    GSquared (3/27/2012)


    Contact MS about it. That's all I can suggest on it that makes any sense to me.

    Completely off topic but MAN do I love your signature lol

    Thanks.

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  • RE: A Developer's scalar UDF is takeing this query from 3 seconds to over 5 minutes to run

    True, if you add in Jeff's optimizations for the splitter portion, the CTEs part will be even faster. Can't hurt.

    I use a CLR splitter these days, so forgot about...

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