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  • RE: Microsoft SQL DBA (Large Hedge Fund)

    Lynn Pettis (6/8/2016)


    Jeff Moden (6/8/2016)


    I'd bet it's Bridgewater Associates in Connecticut.

    Not sure about the company, but you are correct about Connecticut.

    Just saw a message from the recruiter, Jeff. You...

  • RE: Microsoft SQL DBA (Large Hedge Fund)

    Jeff Moden (6/8/2016)


    I'd bet it's Bridgewater Associates in Connecticut.

    Not sure about the company, but you are correct about Connecticut.

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Jeff Moden (6/7/2016)


    Lynn Pettis (6/7/2016)


    Hugo Kornelis (6/7/2016)


    GilaMonster (6/7/2016)


    What I've advised for years is to notify on lack of success (eg: have a monitoring server check that the backup ran, and...

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Hugo Kornelis (6/7/2016)


    GilaMonster (6/7/2016)


    What I've advised for years is to notify on lack of success (eg: have a monitoring server check that the backup ran, and if it didn't, send...

  • RE: Beginning a CTE

    I decided to look at the msdn page referenced and I was amazed!

    Not ONE of the sample CTEs was started with a semicolon. The CTE was either the first...

  • RE: Beginning a CTE

    I still think points should be awarded back, and I don't usually advocate this position.

  • RE: Microsoft SQL DBA (Large Hedge Fund)

    Luis Cazares (6/7/2016)


    Lynn Pettis (6/7/2016)


    Sounds interesting, unfortunately New York City isn't really where I would like to work. Too bad this may not be a position open to a...

  • RE: Microsoft SQL DBA (Large Hedge Fund)

    Sounds interesting, unfortunately New York City isn't really where I would like to work. Too bad this may not be a position open to a remote position.

  • RE: Calling a table valued function in Stored procedure

    I would use REPLACE to replace the unwanted word with an empty string.

  • RE: Interview Questions

    Eric M Russell (6/7/2016)


    Luis Cazares (6/7/2016)


    Was I too late for April fools' day?

    This is what happens when you trust a forum to answer questions that you should answer on your...

  • RE: Query taking 6 hrs and counting (HELP!)- how to concatenate rows into single string

    Not sure if this will be any better, but it is what I would have written.

    with basedata as (

    select distinct

    email

    from

    dbo.[UMG sent 2016]

    )

    select

    ...

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    jasona.work (6/7/2016)


    Lynn Pettis (6/7/2016)


    Jeff Moden (6/7/2016)


    Luis Cazares (6/7/2016)


    Maybe I shouldn't have post this. Or maybe they'll just stop trying to cheat on interviews.

    It was almost as sarcastic as using LMGTFY...

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Jeff Moden (6/7/2016)


    Luis Cazares (6/7/2016)


    Maybe I shouldn't have post this. Or maybe they'll just stop trying to cheat on interviews.

    It was almost as sarcastic as using LMGTFY but I'm absolutely...

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Luis Cazares (6/7/2016)


    WayneS (6/6/2016)


    PRO TIP:

    If you're depending on an email notification to warn you when a backup fails, lack of receiving the email doesn't mean that the backup succeeded.

    That's why...

  • RE: Beginning a CTE

    Aaron N. Cutshall (6/6/2016)


    Lynn Pettis (6/6/2016)


    I don't agree with teaching a crutch.

    It's not teaching the crutch, but teaching that the crutch is NOT NECESSARY.

    But it is encouraging it.

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