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  • RE: select into

    Why do you have parentheses around the columns in the select statement?

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  • RE: Database Does NOT Show as being Offline When in Fact it is

    That's the file status, not the database status. Database status is in sys.databases.

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  • RE: DBA: Mentor vs. Protector

    rboggess (8/18/2009)


    GSquared (8/18/2009)

    The problem with treating the dev environment as an "anything goes" playground is that it can mess up other devs.

    Thank you for the clarification. I knew I...

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  • RE: can I lose data by using on Log File DBCC SHRINKFILE ( )

    You don't lose data by shrinking the log file. You can lose your recovery path if you truncate it, but you won't lose data by shrinking it.

    The main problem...

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  • RE: Free Query Tool

    Or you can set up a group that has the level of access you want, and no more than that, and let them use Management Studio. That's better than...

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  • RE: DBA: Mentor vs. Protector

    On the point of the DBA ruling the production database:

    You cannot be held responsible for what you don't control. "Responsibility" without control is just blame. Conversely, control without...

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  • RE: DBA: Mentor vs. Protector

    rboggess (8/18/2009)


    Clearly, I'm missing something. Either that, or I'm horribly spoilt. Just for clarification, we're talking about playing around on a development computer. A computer, disk (or...

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  • RE: DBA: Mentor vs. Protector

    stephen.lear (8/18/2009)


    Your comment concerning Access is a bit unfair. Everyone starts somewhere. Just because a person started badly you can't judge the rest of their career on it.

    Personally, I have...

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  • RE: Common questions asked in SQL Server DBA Interview

    Abbi: Not a good idea to post your e-mail address openly on web pages. Spammers use bots to scan for that kind of thing and you'll get into their...

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  • RE: Test a SQL statement without executing it?

    You could start with parsing, and then you'd have to build something yourself to test for validity.

    It could be as simple as taking the SQL statement and running it as...

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  • RE: Free Query Tool

    Not sure what you mean. Management Studio can be used a query tool, and the Express version is free. Is that what you mean?

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  • RE: DBA: Mentor vs. Protector

    I favor a completely open playground, a slightly locked down dev box, and totally locked test, QA, and production boxes.

    The playground is where you can try just anything at all....

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  • RE: Need T-SQL statement which will remove "n" spaces

    Lowell, I don't think that will work with file names like "My Long File . Has Extra . Periods . In . It .xls".

    For something like that, if you just...

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  • RE: DBA career advice request

    You're welcome.

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  • RE: Quality of Outsourcing Staff

    My main outsourcing experience started with the owner of the company we would be ourtsourcing to flying to the US to meet us.

    He took one look at the database I'd...

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