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  • RE: Create Your Own Intense Interview

    IceDread (5/29/2012)


    I agree that interviews are a tricky thing. Thou I do a bit like your friend does, prepare questions and read about the company on the web and what...

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  • RE: Where are the good Senior Level DBA's?

    Lynn Pettis (5/25/2012)


    Oliiii (5/25/2012)


    Ah, here is why you don't seem to get what i say 🙂

    I'm not talking about any failure or incident. I'm only talking about mistake.

    When things go...

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  • RE: A brief overview of mechanisms to "export to excel" - which do you use, which do you prefer?

    allmhuran (5/24/2012)


    ...

    GSquared has provided a description that I expect applies to a heck of a lot of businesses out there, ie, "lots of different options from the list". I do...

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  • RE: Where are the good Senior Level DBA's?

    The kind of "blame"/"responsibility" being proposed here is the healthy kind. Find out who messed up and why, and educate them on the right way to do it. ...

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  • RE: A brief overview of mechanisms to "export to excel" - which do you use, which do you prefer?

    allmhuran (5/23/2012)


    GSquared (5/23/2012)


    I've got different solutions for different users.

    Yes indeedy, your rundown mimics very closely the various options currently used where I work, and indeed at pretty much everywhere I've...

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  • RE: SSIS - Multiple File Export with unknown #

    Glad I could help.

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  • RE: T-SQL and Stored Procedure Reference Manual

    Start with MSDN.com. It's where Microsoft documents all the T-SQL commands, functions, syntax, etc. Same content as the installable "help file", called Books Online.

    If you need the syntax...

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  • RE: Not exactly code review or source code control

    SQLKnowItAll (5/23/2012)


    drew.georgopulos (5/23/2012)


    not so good...there are business analysts interposed between the report requestor and developers, so developers rarely speak to the end user.

    My feeling is that GSquared's suggestion hits the...

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  • RE: SSIS - Multiple File Export with unknown #

    Start with an SQL task to generate a dataset with a list of the file names, and the range of records for each. Easy to do with a basic...

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  • RE: Replace master and model database

    Possibilities that come to mind are a misdone in-place upgrade, or someone really badly messed up and restored the wrong backup of those. I'm not even sure that's possible,...

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  • RE: Where are the good Senior Level DBA's?

    Oliiii (5/23/2012)


    Where i work, when you fix something you have to usually show why it was like that, what you did to fix it and why the dude developing it...

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  • RE: Optimize a query

    This is probaby the part that's killing your query speed:

    AND (( A.CO_IN_ITEM_OPT = '00' AND ( B.BUSINESS_UNIT = A.BUSINESS_UNIT OR A.BUSINESS_UNIT = ''))

    OR ( A.CO_IN_ITEM_OPT = '01' ...

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  • RE: Help with CASE please

    I think part of the problem is that your query doesn't have a Case statement in it anywhere, and doesn't need one.

    What you need is something like:

    select *

    from #temp

    where (@isActive...

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  • RE: Not exactly code review or source code control

    drew.georgopulos (5/23/2012)


    i was hoping for a less interactive/intensive way to arrive at a statement of what exactly the problem we are trying to solve is, but you are right, i...

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  • RE: Use Tools

    Automation of my work is why I got into IT in the first place. Never yet worked my way out of a job. Don't think it'll happen any...

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