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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    I'm only fluent in American. I barely speak English. My French is beyond pathetic. I don't remember enough Classical Latin or Greek for it to be useful...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    CirquedeSQLeil (2/12/2010)


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    Alvin Ramard (2/12/2010)


    Hey Jason. I don't know what triggerred this thought, but the word Mentor just made me think of the French...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    CirquedeSQLeil (2/12/2010)


    While reading the thread for today's headline article, I thought of an excellent interview question:

    "What is the most important data in the world?"

    I think you could gain plenty of...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    WayneS (2/12/2010)


    [physic]Hmmm.... with Barry, Gail and Lynn involved, I sense an article in the future[/physic]

    I'm not sure that's the tag you wanted, Wayne.

    Dictionary definition: physic noun: a purging medicine;...

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  • RE: Safety in Numbers

    For me, it depends on the data loss policies of the company, and the ability to recover data.

    For example, I used to manage a database that was just a tool...

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  • RE: is there any way to audit reporting services?

    The team version is best, but Visual Source Safe would probably work.

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  • RE: Quick Question. Could be silly

    _UB (2/11/2010)


    Thanks GSquared. I'll keep those questions in mind, while I think about a solution.

    Be it VM or not, the ID must be unique. Even if the database is transferred...

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  • RE: Is It Possible To Use CASE Statement With SERVERPROPERTY Element

    Try this:

    select case (select serverproperty('engineedition'))

    WHEN '1' THEN 'Personal/Desktop'

    WHEN '2' THEN 'Standard/Workgroup'

    WHEN '3' THEN 'Enterprise/Evaluation/Developer'

    WHEN '4' THEN 'Express/Advanced Services/Embeded SQL'

    ELSE

    'Unknown EngineEdition'

    END as Engine

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  • RE: is there any way to audit reporting services?

    Can't you set up source control and a check-out/in process for the reports? That's even better than just auditing, and not hard to set up.

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  • RE: Is everyone run the below code in SQL 2008 successfully?

    I can't get it to work with the maxrecursion option in the view definition. Works if I query the view with that hint, but not in the view definition...

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  • RE: Thought there was a way....

    krypto69 (2/11/2010)


    missing index dmv is what I was looking for..

    Just be smart with that. It'll give you overlapping recommendations that end up being redundant in many cases.

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  • RE: Thought there was a way....

    Are you talking about the database engine tuning advisor?

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  • RE: Quick Question. Could be silly

    _UB (2/11/2010)


    Thanks GSquared.

    I'll try to see, if I can explain our situation:

    Our software will be installed at various locations in US. We need a way to uniquely identify...

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  • RE: The Best Laptop

    "Best" is one of those fun words that doesn't have a real meaning. My favorite one of those is "soon".

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  • RE: Democratizing the Microsoft MVP Award

    Steve Jones - Editor (2/10/2010)


    Nooooooooo, I was hoping not to manage anyone but myself.

    On that goal, I'll have to say "fail". 🙂

    What you have is the classic difference between "de...

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