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  • RE: Trust

    Mark Classen (2/10/2009)


    There was one comment that disturbed me a little. Respect is earned. Period. I am not talking about dealing with people in a professional manner. I am talking...

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  • RE: change old schema name into new schema name

    Unless all your code is written without schema names in queries, updates, etc., you'll need to do far more than just rename them all.

    I don't think there's a way to...

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  • RE: Point In Time Restores Question

    If the point-in-time selected is in log file 5, then yeah, it would be usual. It finishes at that point, and doesn't need to go any further, so it's...

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  • RE: SQL or Oracle

    gints.plivna (2/10/2009)


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    If I were interviewing and found that the prospective employer expected me to use a command-line interface to the server as my only tool, I'd tell them the...

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  • RE: Point In Time Restores Question

    There are backup history tables in msdb that you can use to build an automatic PIT restore script. Since they have the backup time in them, as well as...

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  • RE: Auto stats on and index rebuild

    Not at all like arguing religion. For this one, you can create very precise metrics.

    Run the database with auto-update turned on for a few weeks, have a trace running...

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  • RE: count number of columns

    Are you familiar with "Group By" and "Count"?

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  • RE: SQL or Oracle

    gints.plivna (2/10/2009)


    I'm using 50:50 PL/SQL Developer and SQL*Plus. Actually I think these funky shmunky GUI tools on the one hand are good if they enhance one's productivity, but bad because...

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  • RE: SQL or Oracle

    The cost of SQL Compare can be rolled into the savings of SQL Server vs Oracle. Very, very easily rolled into that.

    Edit: Just checked pricing on Standard Edition for...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Greg Edwards (2/10/2009)


    Or for a surgeon...

    "I accidently removed the wrong limb, what should I do?"

    I can remember having to write "No" on my left shoulder before going in for surgery...

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  • RE: Trigger Vs Stored Procedure

    jagadish_sds (2/10/2009)


    I read in some blog that Stored procedure execute faster than trigger.

    That statement happens to be incorrect, assuming both use the same code.

    You can prove this by using "set...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Bruce W Cassidy (2/10/2009)


    [font="Verdana"]I suddenly got this mental image of a similar board for GPs, and the questions that get posted...

    "Urgent! Urgent! Urgent! I have someone in my office...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    To add to what Bob wrote, harming the organization harms their customers and employees as well. I find it difficult to get personally worked up about harming an organization...

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  • RE: sp_send_dbmail as CSV

    The default for the query attachment is to just have a blank space between the columns. One blank space. Just because you use the ".csv" file extension doesn't...

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  • RE: Help with INNER JOINs when all criteria aren't met

    The way I handle that kind of chain is keep the set of tables that might have a "broken chain" in a derived table (I use CTEs for it now...

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