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  • RE: Social Media and Interviews

    david.wright-948385 (4/25/2012)

    With alcohol you end up with a hangover, cumulative damage to your liver, maybe some cuts and bruises and a few thousand dead brain cells. With some drugs you...

  • RE: Altering a Column

    I didn't see anything in the ALTER COLUMN documentation indicating that a change from NULL to NOT NULL wouldn't work--what am I missing? :unsure:

  • RE: Smelly Power

    Slightly off topic, but big coal-fired plants use cooling towers too--Drax power station in Yorkshire has something like twelve of the things!

  • RE: Social Media and Interviews

    david.wright-948385 (4/25/2012)

    Someone said something along the lines of "how do you know more people will use drugs if they're legalised": are you serious? How can more people NOT use something...

  • RE: Social Media and Interviews

    david.wright-948385 (4/24/2012)And what of the government: they would be legalising something they know to be harmful.

    To be fair here, this is already the case for tobacco and alcohol, both of...

  • RE: Smelly Power

    What they need to be doing to make a data centre *really* green is to use the waste heat for something, rather than just venting it to atmosphere. 15MW of...

  • RE: Social Media and Interviews

    This tickled something in the back of my head, so I went hunting--found this article. It's pretty old (2004) but it says that, at the time, more than 70% of...

  • RE: Social Media and Interviews

    I agree with David. It would no doubt be extremely nice to know about all the gory details of an employee's private life before hiring them, but it should be...

  • RE: Log Shipping Agent says its working BUT!

    n00bDBA (4/18/2012)


    So the weird you do a log ship at 9:15 and it only shows on the secondary after 9:30 (If anyone could explain that to me that would be...

  • RE: Social Media and Interviews

    If an employer asks for my Facebook password I can quite truthfully say I don't have one...wonder what would happen then? Would they be forced to reject my job application...

  • RE: Generating Test Data: Part 1 - Generating Random Integers and Floats

    Jeff Moden (3/30/2012)


    Cool... 5 birds with 1 stone. SPAM reported. 😉

    Well, strictly speaking it's the same bird 5 times...and what is it with this thread and spam, anyway?...

  • RE: SSIS failed because low in memory

    sqlfriends (3/29/2012)Do I need to set the SQL server Max memory? even we put 4 GB Memory sticks in the server, if I go to computer -property- it shows 3.5...

  • RE: Reduce the store Procedure execution time

    Jeff Moden (3/25/2012)


    Jeez... someone was crazy about order. The code that populates the variables has another ORDER BY in it. Lose the ORDER BY in the following code.

    Doesn't...

  • RE: Generating Test Data: Part 1 - Generating Random Integers and Floats

    Krtyknm (3/26/2012)

    I have a question on sys tables, most of them using the Sys.tables for generating random numbers. Assume that developers don't have an access to System tables, then how...

  • RE: Fetch table name,size

    Jeff Moden (3/22/2012)

    {EDIT} I've also removed the columns from the code on this thread so that future readers don't run into a problem. My apologies on this. It's...

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