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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Stefan Krzywicki (2/17/2012)


    GSquared (2/17/2012)


    Evil Kraig F (2/17/2012)


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    bitbucket-25253 (2/17/2012)


    Way way back Virginia Tech was working on a system with a buried cable in each lane, a sensing mechanism on the...

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  • RE: Programmers v Salespeople

    TravisDBA (2/17/2012)


    No. You asserted that the DBA is more important than a salesperson because a salesperson being gone for a day isn't as important as a server being down...

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  • RE: Clearing a SQL Table While Other Users Are in it

    sumitagarwal781 (2/17/2012)


    clearing in the sense what truncate or delete? and it wont allow to clear while other users are accessing the table simultaneously.

    Sure it will. Unless someone is holding...

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  • RE: Questions when database is Read Committed Snapshot and transaction isolation levels of Read Committed or Serializable are used

    RCSI is specifically built to override Read Committed Isolation behavior. Read Committed is the default behavior, and RCSI modifies that from pessimistic to optimistic locking, by using row versions....

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  • RE: Programmers v Salespeople

    TravisDBA (2/17/2012)


    If the DBA goes on PTO for a day

    I was talking about a database going down, not a DBA being out for a couple of days. DBA's are important...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Evil Kraig F (2/17/2012)


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    Way way back Virginia Tech was working on a system with a buried cable in each lane, a sensing mechanism on the front of your...

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  • RE: Programmers v Salespeople

    RobertYoung (2/17/2012)


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    Heather May (2/17/2012)


    If you ask a salesperson, they will say the salesperson should make more. If you ask a developer, they will say a developer should...

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  • RE: Programmers v Salespeople

    Matt Miller (#4) (2/17/2012)


    We finally achieved 4-9s uptime this year, up from 3-9s last year! The new DBA rocks! That's 9 less hours of downtime spread over a whole year....

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  • RE: Programmers v Salespeople

    RobertYoung (2/17/2012)


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    Heather May (2/17/2012)


    If you ask a salesperson, they will say the salesperson should make more. If you ask a developer, they will say a developer should make more....

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  • RE: Programmers v Salespeople

    TravisDBA (2/17/2012)


    It's not a silly comparison IMHO to say that a CEO or CIO is going to notice a major order Processing website database down for however long, alot more...

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  • RE: Programmers v Salespeople

    Heather May (2/17/2012)


    If you ask a salesperson, they will say the salesperson should make more. If you ask a developer, they will say a developer should make more. The only...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    bitbucket-25253 (2/17/2012)


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    Getting away from cold weather and all, I can remember back to 1950 when an uncle of mine gave me his old, old beetle so it...

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  • RE: Can I get three examples of ETL?

    PaulB-TheOneAndOnly (2/17/2012)


    Jeff Moden (2/11/2012)


    PaulB-TheOneAndOnly (2/11/2012)


    Just loading a table hardly qualifies as ETL.

    Seriously? You don't think that taking a mega-row text file from something like Double-Click.Net and loading it into...

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  • RE: Clearing a SQL Table While Other Users Are in it

    Yes, but the transaction will have to wait its turn. Locks will have to be released by all other users. That's usually automatic, doesn't require any human intervention.

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  • RE: Programmers v Salespeople

    TravisDBA (2/17/2012)


    Most business don't need stellar personnel in any position. They need "good enough". But given the choice between a stellar DBA, stellar software dev, or stellar salesperson,...

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