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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    GilaMonster (9/18/2011)


    For some general silliness...

    CREATE DATABASE [Oops]

    ON PRIMARY (

    NAME = N'Oops', FILENAME = N'D:\Develop\Databases\Oops.txt:Data'

    )

    LOG ON (

    NAME = N'Oops_log', FILENAME = N'D:\Develop\Databases\Oops.txt:Log'

    )

    GO

    Data files, what data files?...

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  • RE: Partitioned Table - is index aligned if different FG/scheme, but same Function?

    Yes, it's aligned.

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    GilaMonster (9/16/2011)


    ALZDBA (9/16/2011)


    Tom.Thomson (9/16/2011)


    I forgot one:

    5) risks of using backup log to append a log backup to an existing file containing log backups instead of always creating a new backup...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Brandie Tarvin (9/16/2011)


    I'm thinking about getting a tablet so I can do email & social networking apps while I am at functions (rather than lugging my laptop around), but also...

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  • RE: need sample resume for MS SQL DBA

    A couple of things that were very successful on my resume last year:

    Summarize the "good parts version" right at the top. I have a list of 5 or 6...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Jan Van der Eecken (9/16/2011)


    Totally different topic. Has anyone downloaded and tried out the Windows 8 Developer preview? If yes, what's it look like apart from being a big Windows...

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  • RE: SSIS / Business Intelligence Development Studio issues

    I used to have problems with BIDS freezing up and requiring a reboot, but haven't run into that in several years. Is it possible you have a missing patch/service...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Ninja's_RGR'us (9/16/2011)


    Brandie Tarvin (9/16/2011)


    Gianluca Sartori (9/16/2011)


    WayneS (9/16/2011)


    Question for those that blog (preferably with WordPress) and post code on their blog - what code syntax tool do you use? I'm using...

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  • RE: Mathematical Theory (controversy!)

    paul.phillips (9/16/2011)


    Getting back onto the theme of the original post.

    If 0.999 recurring = 1, then does 0.00...1 = 0?

    The issue I have with 0.999 recurring = 1 is...

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  • RE: Mathematical Theory (controversy!)

    jcrawf02 (9/16/2011)


    In our house, it was more of a "dad cuts into sixteen equal pieces, kids get a piece each, next morning the rest have mysteriously disappeared" kinda game. For...

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  • RE: Like vs Contains

    If you want to automatically rebuild, you'd use Alter Fulltext Catalog (details here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms176095.aspx).

    Run that as a script in your maintenance job.

    I'm not sure why it would require a reboot....

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    GilaMonster (9/16/2011)


    I suspect this got lost in all the 'helping Grant abuse SQL' posts...

    Another request:

    I'm bunking tonight and starting the rewrite of my rather old (and second-ever) article Managing Transaction...

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  • RE: how to trim the value in the table

    I can't understand your question.

    You have some data in Excel. I get that much. What are you trying to do with it?

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  • RE: Like vs Contains

    Contains is dependent on the full-text index. If the index is up-to-date, it will be faster than Like, often much, much faster. (Of course, full text indexing can...

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  • RE: sql Cardinality

    GilaMonster (9/16/2011)


    GSquared (9/16/2011)


    Yep. Didn't quite nail that one precisely, did I?

    Almost everyone mixes up density (measure of how unique an index is), selectivity (measure of the fraction of total...

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