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  • RE: It's not you; it's us

    GilaMonster (9/4/2013)

    How would they go about that?

    I'd love the lower-level certs to be respected. I'd love to be able to interview someone with a lower-level MS cert and have some...

  • RE: It's not you; it's us

    Steve Jones - SSC Editor (9/4/2013)


    patrickmcginnis59 10839 (9/4/2013)


    Now on the other hand, this leaves poor slobs like me who has to explain to management why I want what the community...

  • RE: It's not you; it's us

    SQLRNNR (9/4/2013)


    patrickmcginnis59 10839 (9/4/2013)


    “We want it to be an elite community, certainly. But some of the non-technical barriers to entry run the risk of making it elitist for non-technical reasons....

  • RE: It's not you; it's us

    “We want it to be an elite community, certainly. But some of the non-technical barriers to entry run the risk of making it elitist for non-technical reasons. Having a program...

  • RE: Fastest way to read a 600MB table (in memory)

    Robert klimes (8/29/2013)


    Whats the slow part with RBAR in SSMS? Its not using T-SQL, so without that slowdown I'm wondering why RBAR would be involved here.

    Obviously its closed source, so...

  • RE: Fastest way to read a 600MB table (in memory)

    Robert klimes (8/27/2013)


    Might be the clients ability to consume the data. SSMS uses RBAR to retrieve rows. IF using SSMS turn on client statistics from the query menu. this will...

  • RE: How to deny restore database in sql server to SA?

    I periodically have to restore to test instances and while its certainly not foolproof, the first time I do this, I script all the restore and update T-SQL out into...

  • RE: Unable to open Step output file

    Maybe its a permissions problem? You could consider comparing the permissions of the working destination to the non working destination and seeing if there is a mismatch. When slinging files...

  • RE: Urgent Help needed - change multiple columns width at the same time in 2008 SSR Visual Studio for a report

    just for fun, I tried editting the xml, seemed to have worked. Not sure how adviseable it is 🙂

    ...

  • RE: Maintain the sort order of data file while using bcp

    Gil_Adi (8/14/2013)


    Thanks Guys

    The file being read contains Receipt Header with it corresponding lines just after the Receipt Raw header

    The file includes several Receipts

    So Maintianing the read order is...

  • RE: Error 137 - you must declare the scalar variable

    dokledon (8/2/2013)


    Hi,

    I'm running a script against 16 registered servers (6 SQL 2000, 4 SQL 2005, 6 SQL 2008R2) within the same connection.

    It works well, except for 2 of 6 the...

  • RE: The Human Touch

    Hugo Kornelis (8/1/2013)


    patrickmcginnis59 10839 (8/1/2013)


    whereas Hugo is stuck repeating all that analysis and synthesis DURING EACH MANUAL RUN OF HIS TASK.

    Heh! You must have misunderstood my point. I never said...

  • RE: The Human Touch

    RichB (8/1/2013)


    I would also firmly point you towards Sidney Dekkers Field Guide to understanding Human Error.

    In my opinion one of the cross disciplinary must reads for any DBA.

    Awesome, I'm going...

  • RE: The Human Touch

    paul.knibbs (8/1/2013)


    That's all true, but I come from a programming background, and I know that you will pretty much never, ever anticipate every daft or incorrect input a user is...

  • RE: The Human Touch

    Hugo Kornelis (8/1/2013)


    Then, on using scripts and/or PowerShell in general.

    You push using this kind of automation as a way to prevent human error, because you eliminate the error-prone process of...

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