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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Steve Jones - Editor (11/19/2009)


    That's not bad. I'll see if I can structure something that won't upset everyone around me.

    I promise I won't be upset. So, now you can...

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  • RE: Execute Process Task (SQLCMD)

    It made him take a short vacation in a desert. (I generally prefer a vacation with dessert over a vacation in the desert, but that seems to be his...

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  • RE: Surely It Should Just Work?

    bpatin (11/19/2009)


    I've seen the T-SQL for a maintenance plan (view only) with a disclaimer that it may not be exactly what the server will be executing, but see no way...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Steve Jones - Editor (11/19/2009)


    I struggle with this a little. I want to allow people in the community to interact, which includes vendors. At the same time, Red Gate does...

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  • RE: Easy Licenses

    Easy enough to have a trace that grabs the host data for the connection, and then dump that into a table for analysis.

    Would probably want to use events 14 and...

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  • RE: Speed Phreaks

    Steve Jones - Editor (11/19/2009)


    I think the problem with many of the "considerations" or "rules" that GQSquared listed is that they don't mean anything if you're ignorant. What is "appropriate"...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Paul White (11/19/2009)


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    Paul White (11/19/2009)


    I'm in two minds about this:

    http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic821057-145-1.aspx#bm821538

    Is it spam? Should I care? Thoughts?

    It's spam. You should care.

    You're probably right - it's just he/she...

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  • RE: Cursors. Are the really that evil?

    If I'm correctly understanding the design, yes, you should use cursors for that. It's what's known as a "one true lookup table" solution, and it's a complete violation of...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Paul White (11/19/2009)


    I'm in two minds about this:

    http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic821057-145-1.aspx#bm821538

    Is it spam? Should I care? Thoughts?

    Paul

    It's spam. You should care.

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Roses are red

    Violets are blue

    I'm not a poet

    And you aren't either

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  • RE: SQL future

    You still haven't posted the non-SQL relational solution to the problem that you posed.

    I looked at the sample "true relational" databases you posted earlier. They are only "true relational"...

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  • RE: Speed Phreaks

    Brandie Tarvin (11/18/2009)


    Sorry, GSquared. I have an anti-ditto (of a sort) to your list.

    RE: Indexing. Yes, index. But don't OVER index.

    Pet Peeve = developers add an index to an existing...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    jcrawf02 (11/18/2009)


    ... which prompted me to Google LASHIWAB, which results lead to my next question... should answers on ask.sqlservercentral.com be scored higher if they were given in rhyme rather than...

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  • RE: Strange occurence using (nolock)

    john scott miller (11/18/2009)


    I don' treally care weather it comes back different between using nolock or not, i just enjoy finding inconisencies in the system and finding out why these...

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  • RE: SQL future

    David Portas (11/18/2009)


    GSquared (11/18/2009)


    SQL will, I'm sure, go the route of the buggy whip one day. But the replacement technology hasn't, to my knowledge, been invented yet. I...

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