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  • RE: Thinking Time

    Meetings can be useful, of course. Even lots of meetings, so long as it doesn't become a career. I've had major projects that required hours of meetings in...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Jack Corbett (11/28/2011)


    So I had to post this job description I got via email today for a SQL Server DBA position:

    Qualified candidates will possess programming skills, such as skill in...

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  • RE: Execute permission without data modification

    Another thing you can probably do is write a DDL trigger that tracks stored procedure creation and alteration, and which blocks creating them if they have "update" or "delete" or...

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  • RE: Execute permission without data modification

    You might want to do an explicit denydatawriter to make sure that's fully covered.

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  • RE: Stress – It’s Not Fair

    ken.trock (11/28/2011)


    The single most common cause of both work overload and project failure is doing work twice. The most common cause of that is picking up some piece of work...

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  • RE: Are You Easy To Work With?

    Best rule I know for moderating that kind of behavior is to remember that it's perfectly okay to think you're the most important person in the world, just so long...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Brandie Tarvin (11/28/2011)


    GSquared (11/28/2011)


    But, Yahoo Babel Fish wins first prize with:

    ... in fact c' is a work of plunger.

    I just love this part. @=)

    Yep! I can just imagine...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Kiara (11/28/2011)


    L' Eomot Inversé (11/28/2011)

    I was beginning to think no one would react like that - 6 whole days with those two quotations in my sig and not a...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    GilaMonster (11/24/2011)


    Ninja's_RGR'us (11/24/2011)


    GS now works for RG so he's borderline on that one ;-).

    I think you mean GF (Grant Fritchey), because last time I checked I didn't work for...

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  • RE: Stress – It’s Not Fair

    "Stress" is primarily an endocrine reaction to fear or anger.

    In this case, it's primarily going to be low-intensity fear, engendered by a threat to project success, as a reaction to...

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  • RE: T-SQL QUERY TO RETURN SOME DATA

    Are you familiar with IN clauses, and with Group By and Having?

    select *

    from dbo.MyTable

    where MyColumn not in (select MyColumn from dbo.MyTable Group By MyColumn Having count(*) > 1);

    Alternative, a Where...

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  • RE: Select all from 1 file and top from another

    Okay. In a query that's already that complex, do use a UDF for a little more readability.

    One thing you might want to do is break out each of the...

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  • RE: is there an option to sync first snapshot without deleting data?

    I'm not sure how you'd do replication without a snapshot being used somewhere along the way.

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Brandie Tarvin (11/23/2011)


    And now for the public flogging moment of The Thread as I post a semi-technical question that is sure to get me lynched.

    We have a Word 2003 document...

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  • RE: alter table alter column question regarding how many columns can be altered in 1

    Has to be one at a time, or rebuild the table all at once.

    The way I usually do this kind of thing looks like:

    select 'alter table dbo.MyTable alter column ['...

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