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  • RE: Tuning the query for performance

    You could try optimizing this one. One general strategy I use is if its too expensive to make the columns look like the parameter, then make the parameter look like...

  • RE: Need Ammunition for Developers Doing Select *'s

    ZZartin (6/17/2015)Sometimes the only way people will accept they're wrong is if you prove them wrong. For example a perfectly plausible scenario is that columns are added in a...

  • RE: Need Ammunition for Developers Doing Select *'s

    ZZartin (6/5/2015)


    EdVassie (6/5/2015)


    You could try a little role-play.

    Call your developers into a meeting, and have a box of paper left outside the room.

    Tell a developer you need some paper and...

  • RE: Question regarding database architecture

    I'm wondering here if the untrusted browser can then set the cookie to arbitrary values to try to get into someone elses database? I myself would probably use the cookie...

  • RE: The Scientific Method: a call to action

    andrew gothard (6/12/2015)


    Aye - very fair point. I've replied on the subject myself on this thread and you're right, on reflection it does detract from the discussion on what...

  • RE: Multiple Databases and Schemas, 1 User...

    Honestly, if you have an environment that makes use of schemas to that extent, I think its well worth drilling down in a test environment and making a study of...

  • RE: Multiple Databases and Schemas, 1 User...

    WARNING, UNDERSTAND AND TEST YOUR SECURITY WHEN MAKING CHANGES. SECURITY IS SERIOUS BUSINESS. YOU SHOULD ASSUME THIS POST IS COMPLETE JUNK.

    Heh anyways...

    Just curious here, could you just let that user...

  • RE: Normalizing a database

    madan.preeti2005 (6/9/2015)


    Oh yes i forgot to mention that, once data is populated, indexes will be recreated. Do you think that will tune query to some extent?

    SQL Server will definitely change...

  • RE: Normalizing a database

    madan.preeti2005 (6/9/2015)


    Thank you for your response

    These tables (around 12/15) are used for reporting purpose. there are 3 jobs which fill these tables from another server and then there are queries...

  • RE: A Case FOR Cursors...

    g.britton (6/2/2015)


    Brian J. Parker (6/1/2015)


    This also got me thinking of another real-world example I've faced. Let's say you have a third-party product that includes a really complicated stored procedure that...

  • RE: A Case FOR Cursors...

    ray 64276 (6/1/2015)


    Cursors can have a higher performance in many cases where dealing with large updates. There are a couple reasons for this:

    - The deleted and inserted tables...

  • RE: A Case FOR Cursors...

    g.britton (6/1/2015)


    patrickmcginnis59 10839 (6/1/2015)


    While a programmer, I never heard that GOTO was bad. Why is that so bad?

    Comes from "Edsger Dijkstra's letter Go To Statement Considered Harmful, published in...

  • RE: A Case FOR Cursors...

    While a programmer, I never heard that GOTO was bad. Why is that so bad?

    Comes from "Edsger Dijkstra's letter Go To Statement Considered Harmful, published in the March 1968...

  • RE: Hack Us

    cdesmarais 49673 (5/27/2015)


    Of course if you find something, they put you on the nofly list...

    http://fortune.com/2015/05/14/united-airlines-hacking-plane/

    reminds me of this:

    https://www.flickr.com/photos/erikcharlton/348280630

  • RE: The Scientific Method: a call to action

    Lynn Pettis (5/27/2015)


    meilenb (5/27/2015)


    Alan.B (5/27/2015)


    meilenb (5/27/2015)


    Alan.B (5/27/2015)


    Lynn Pettis (5/27/2015)


    meilenb (5/27/2015)


    Alan.B (5/27/2015)


    Emph. mine

    meilenb (5/24/2015)


    ...

    Everyone knows that CO2, CH4 and N2O ...

    How is the science clear on climate change when the scientists...

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