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  • RE: Does the Role of the DBA Need to Evolve?

    michael.french 172 (12/12/2011)


    An exponential advance in technology is an understatement. Think of how far we come in just the last 50 years or even five years. Think about how young...

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  • RE: scripting a time range

    If you have a Numbers table, you can do something like this:

    SELECT DATEADD(DAY, Number, DATEADD(week, -5, CAST(GETDATE() AS DATE))),

    DATEADD(MINUTE, (12 *...

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  • RE: scripting a time range

    I'm not clear on what you need. Are you just looking for a way to determine 30 minutes before and after the current time?

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  • RE: Count and Case Query

    Couple of options. You could use the T-SQL Pivot operator, as per http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms177410.aspx, or you could build a query for each count and use Union All to connect them...

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  • RE: SQL 2005 express - Automatic backups

    Since SQL Express doesn't have the SQL Agent service for scheduling jobs, you'll either need to build something that can use the Windows task scheduler (perhaps through the command line,...

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  • RE: Count and Case Query

    Change "COUNT" to "SUM" and you should get what you need.

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  • RE: Does the Role of the DBA Need to Evolve?

    bradmcgehee@hotmail.com (12/12/2011)


    My editorial got edited after I wrote it, and one important part of the message I was trying to get across apparently got deleted. In the original draft of...

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  • RE: Resume font ?

    Of all the forum threads available, the one resurrected a year later is one about resume fonts .... interesting.

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  • RE: Does the Role of the DBA Need to Evolve?

    I agree with the split. DBA = admins the database, Management = analyzes data and makes+implements decisions based on it, Analyst = support for management when specialized knowledge/skills are...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    From today's ToDo: Catch up on missed week in The Thread done

    Had a good week. Looks like I didn't miss too much here. Brandi and Gail...

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  • RE: A Refreshing Break

    Just got back from being off for a week. Didn't need to bother with work e-mail at all. Definitely a good break.

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  • RE: Storing "BLOB" data

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    Barkingdog (12/2/2011)


    We have a third part app that needs to store a PDF file in a sql 2008 database. I recommended using varbinary(MAX) but the app doesn't...

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  • RE: Last day of Month

    Use the month and year to get the first day of that month. Then use DateAdd to add a month to, then DateAdd again to subtract one day, and...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Ninja's_RGR'us (12/2/2011)


    Happy putzy week-end (I hope I got the meaning right!).

    Definition 1: unintelligent person: somebody regarded as very unintelligent and unpleasant

    But I was just quoting Blazing Saddles because of the...

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  • RE: Dropping and restoring DB to fix file fragmentation

    Dev (12/2/2011)


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    Dev (12/2/2011)


    I will keep a note in my collection. One more reason for not opting SQL Server Clustering... 😉

    There are some very good reasons...

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