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  • RE: Does Maturity Make a DBA?

    John Rowan (8/10/2009)


    I just wanted to say that from an outside observers perspective, that I admire Lynn and Gus's continued professionalism in the face of what has ended up being...

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  • RE: I'm confused

    If it's anything like most of the places I'm familiar with, there will be companies in your area that specialize in recruiting and placing IT personnel. If there are,...

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  • RE: SQL Profiler running on server side causes high CPU usage

    TheSQLGuru (8/10/2009)


    GSquared (8/10/2009)


    I've actually built very performant scalar UDFs. The problem with them is when you start using them in join criteria or Where clauses, and kill any possibility...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    GilaMonster (8/10/2009)


    jcrawf02 (8/10/2009)


    Suggestions for "very terse answers" -

    Unplug it.

    Quit your job.

    Run. Now.

    Ask Jeff.

    I've several times been tempted, when reading a really long question that's of the form 'Is it...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Grant Fritchey (8/10/2009)


    It was a good faith effort, but based on the "Oh boy, I gave this 5 stars, my life is better" responses that were in the discussion in...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Paul White (8/10/2009)


    I clearly need to work on my 'being abrupt' skills :blink:

    I tried quite hard...

    I'm quite sure you can become more abrupt with a little practice. It's not...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    GilaMonster (8/10/2009)


    GSquared (8/10/2009)


    I think a few of the responses were a bit abrupt (not from the usual crowd on The Thread). The guy obviously put some work into it,...

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  • RE: DBAs and the Art of Diplomacy

    I'd rather be honest, but non-insulting, personally.

    I've told managers that plans were not in their or the company's best interests. I wouldn't come up with some coded way to...

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  • RE: Backup to the Clode - No Excuses

    File-size vs bandwidth prevents me from doing that currently. Tapes get made of the backups, nightly, and get shipped to a different state.

    Means there's an overnight delay (at best)...

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  • RE: Working with Joins

    On the question you posted on the second copy of this thread:

    This:

    LEFT JOIN [T Bill To.Conversion]

    Needs to be:

    LEFT JOIN [T Bill To].[Conversion]

    Simple as that.

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  • RE: SQL Profiler running on server side causes high CPU usage

    I've actually built very performant scalar UDFs. The problem with them is when you start using them in join criteria or Where clauses, and kill any possibility of index...

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  • RE: Testing Backups created from Maintenance Plans

    You'd have to modify it a bit, but what you're looking for are the "backupfile", "backupfilegroup", "backupmediafamily", "backupmediaset", and "backupset" tables.

    They're pretty straightforward if you dig into them.

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  • RE: Loop to count

    mtassin (8/7/2009)


    CREATE TABLE [dbo].[UPR00900](

    Hmmm with names like those... let me guess.. Great Plains?

    I find it sad that Microsoft makes very poor design mistakes like this stuff.. I'm getting used to...

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  • RE: Does Maturity Make a DBA?

    Lynn Pettis (8/8/2009)


    sjsubscribe (8/7/2009)


    GSquared, you still don't make sense. There is no place in our society for religious tests, no matter how well its masked. As the author asked if...

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  • RE: Does Maturity Make a DBA?

    sjsubscribe (8/7/2009)


    GSquared, you still don't make sense. There is no place in our society for religious tests, no matter how well its masked. As the author asked if it's baloney....

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