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  • RE: Table Data

    Even without Profiler, you can still create/use a trace to get what queries are being run in the database. You just have to script it out yourself. Check...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Craig Farrell (5/3/2011)


    Side topic, has anyone here looked for employee or resume submittals via SSC? If so, what was your quality of recipients? We're running into a dearth...

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  • RE: Table Data

    Are you asking how to write a SELECT statement?

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  • RE: How to ignore particular error with TRY/CATCH ?

    I'd have to see more of the code to help much. Can you post the whole loop?

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  • RE: EAV's and NVP's are bad. So... What do YOU use as an alternative?

    I've used them. Those and XML columns both work for "user-defined data structures". Which one I use depends on degree of flexibility needed and how it's going to...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Awesome! Well done and well deserved.

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Tom.Thomson (5/2/2011)


    ChrisM@home (5/2/2011)


    Koen Verbeeck (5/1/2011)


    ChrisM@home (4/30/2011)


    LutzM (4/30/2011)


    Slightly different over here in Germany: if a holiday falls on a Sunday (as it happens with May 1st this year), we won't get...

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  • RE: How do you vulgarize a DBA's job?

    Craig Farrell (5/2/2011)


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    GSquared (4/29/2011)


    I tell people that my job description is specifically designed to see how fast a person's eyes can glaze over. The entertainment starts there.

    I...

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  • RE: account to run sql agent jobs

    I'm not clear on your question.

    Are you asking if the service account should be a sysadmin? If so, no, it shouldn't. That allows rights escalation attacks by anyone...

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  • RE: The FOR XML clause is invalid in views, inline functions, derived tables, and subqueries when they contain a set operator.

    The error message recommends turning it into a derived table format. Try this:

    SELECT ISNULL((SELECT *

    ...

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  • RE: How do you vulgarize a DBA's job?

    I tell people that my job description is specifically designed to see how fast a person's eyes can glaze over. The entertainment starts there.

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  • RE: Normalization

    David Portas (4/27/2011)


    GSquared (4/27/2011)


    On the circular reason point, saying "all relations are in 1NF, thus this is automatically in 1NF because we say it's a relation", is circular reasoning. ...

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  • RE: Normalization

    Peter Trast (4/27/2011)


    Steve Jones - SSC Editor (4/27/2011)


    I may be wrong, and I'll admit that. However the "use" of the data in terms of when/how you might call someone is...

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  • RE: Normalization

    Peter Trast (4/27/2011)


    GSquared (4/27/2011)


    Richard Warr (4/27/2011)


    Nice question and an interesting example. Would renaming the columns "Telephone 1" and "Telephone 2" to "Home Phone" and "Mobile Phone" mean that the table...

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  • RE: Normalization

    Steven993 (4/27/2011)


    You don't know what is a relation.

    You can't see the difference between relation and table......

    I actually have Date on Database Writings 2000-2006 under my eyes.

    Chapter 8, 30 apges is...

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