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  • RE: The Cult of Mediocrity

    Duncan P (6/19/2012)


    Taking a risk for a big payoff is one thing, but many people (without any other kind of safety net - e.g. a wealthy family) will not want...

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  • RE: The Cult of Mediocrity

    julian.fletcher (6/19/2012)


    "Or defeated the Nazis."

    Wow - that's some achievement! Did you need any help doing that?

    Who's "you" in this question?

    Everyone who fought the Nazis, including internal rebels within Germany, took...

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  • RE: Technology Guilt

    patrickmcginnis59 (6/18/2012)


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    patrickmcginnis59 (6/18/2012)


    The question isn't whether disparity exists, it's whether the ability to move along the income spectrum exists.

    Everybody on the lower income spectrum would...

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  • RE: The Certification Debate

    I don't have any certs. Hasn't had any impact at all, positive or negative, on job hunting, doing my job, or anything else I'm aware of.

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  • RE: After X Years

    Jeff Moden (6/16/2012)


    I'm not so concerned with people that use sharp spoons to chop down the tree. It's the ones that think it's really cool to use six headed...

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  • RE: Can't Shrink Log, Truncate being blocked by Bulk Insert?

    Vertigo44 (6/14/2012)


    Yes but mine did not say 0% remaining. Mine said 0% COMPLETE after sitting for about 45 minutes. I've got MS on the line and I think we might...

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  • RE: Can't Shrink Log, Truncate being blocked by Bulk Insert?

    I once had a transaction with 0% remaining on the rollback for 3 days. Ended up having to restore the database from a backup in order to resolve the...

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  • RE: I want to better understand execution plans

    RedGate has a book on that subject: http://www.red-gate.com/community/books/sql-server-execution-plans

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  • RE: After X Years

    TravisDBA (6/14/2012)


    "I heard a great quote recently from Abraham Lincoln that I think applies. He said "If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six hours...

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  • RE: How do i limit the number of records using a 'TOP' without changing the max record count ?

    isuckatsql (6/12/2012)


    I used a Temp Table, but it made the query a lot slower!

    I also used the loop joins and nolock because they improved performance.

    By combining CTE, loops joins and...

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  • RE: Nasty, nasty, nasty....

    An index on a commonly-accessed foreign key column is a pretty common way to speed up Join queries. Is that what you're asking about?

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  • RE: is nvarchar(2000) is big or BIGINT is big in size

    It depends on what is in the column. Index size can't go over 900 though, so nvarchar(2000) is often impossible to index. BigInt is no problem to index.

    I'm...

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  • RE: Speed question for computed columns

    If the formulae for the computed columns are deterministic (in SQL Server's opinion), then you can persist the values, and even index them if you want to.

    Here's a sample of...

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  • RE: QUERY HELP - eSCAPING SINGLE QUOTES

    You have to use double-single-quotes to put single-quotes in a string that way.

    Not the shift+quote key, the quote key twice.

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  • RE: trimming a text string

    Had another thought on this. Modified version:

    DECLARE @String VARCHAR(1000) = 'Bev\Soda\The Dew',

    @Delim CHAR(1) = '\',

    @Elements INT = -1, -- 0 =...

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