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  • RE: Lost Transaction?

    (Sorry for two posts. Had to take a minute to find this.)

    Take a look at this, see if it helps: http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1144535-391-1.aspx

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  • RE: Lost Transaction?

    Which flavor of replication are you using?

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  • RE: Pay Ranges

    And I dropped out of both kindergarden and college! But I've got a well-paid DBA job anyway.

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  • RE: variables

    It's been a while since I used DTS. In SSIS, what you're asking about is trivially easy.

    You use an SQL task to query table 2, then a For Each...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Brandie Tarvin (12/22/2011)


    Since it's doubtful I'll be around for the next four days...

    Happy Holidays to anyone who celebrates. And happy long weekend to those who don't celebrate but take advantage...

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  • RE: Pay Ranges

    David Moutray (12/22/2011)


    MysteryJimbo (12/21/2011)Generally I've found DBA's get paid around 15-20% more than developers in the same company and around the same as Development management.

    Does it seem wrong to anyone...

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  • RE: Optimize for Wildcard Queries

    Sounds like full text indexing would do exactly what you need. I've used it on multi-million row tables and get results in sub-millisecond on a regular basis, for very...

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  • RE: Display Every Day of the month even if no data is available

    There are two easy ways to do this:

    First (and usually best) is have a calendar table. Query that and either join it to the other table(s) or use a...

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  • RE: To VIEW or Not To VIEW ... That is the Question.

    bwoulfe (12/22/2011)


    Ha! Oh man, I bet that really pissed off the PETA people...

    Nah. They didn't actually show any birds falling to their doom, just people running in panic.

    As they...

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  • RE: To VIEW or Not To VIEW ... That is the Question.

    David Moutray (12/22/2011)


    Very funny article! Actually, I like the term "Rooster Booster" better than "Bird Cannon." :hehe:

    That reminds me of the Thanksgiving episode of "WKRP in Cincinnati" (an...

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  • RE: So, What Can You Do With the "Custom Reports" in SQL Server Management Studio?

    They're SSRS reports you build.

    Here's an article on it: http://www.simple-talk.com/sql/sql-tools/custom-reports-in-management-studio,-using-the-performance-dashboard/

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  • RE: To VIEW or Not To VIEW ... That is the Question.

    David Moutray (12/22/2011)


    I like the phrase "High Velocity Pork Chop!" It is wonderfully obscure. 🙂 Although, I think I prefer the imagery of a "high velocity meatball." ...

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  • RE: GOTO and T-SQL

    I'd use a GOTO if I felt the need. Mostly though, the "Not-a-GOTO" statements handle it these days. So I haven't used a literal "GOTO" in T-SQL in...

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  • RE: What is the meaning of WHERE *= COLUMN NAME

    Dev (12/22/2011)


    Thanks Gus. I knew SQL Server Join syntax (Non ANSI). I was just trying to recollect whether Oracle Syntax was portable to SQL Server (or vice a...

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  • RE: Index created date

    Sapen (12/21/2011)


    If an index has been added recently then you can try to get creation date from the default trace file otherwise there is no way you can do it...

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