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The cloud will certainly become like the power utility providers, or phone companies from which we will buy our services. My only quibble is that it is probably wrong to...
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Phil Factor
May 8, 2011 at 3:53 am
Don't you think if you've ended up with JSON at the database, something is wrong?
It is as wrong as having XML at the database. If you are supporting applications that...
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April 22, 2011 at 4:04 am
Well, what I have in mind is a strategic attack on the problem, once we are agreed as to what the problem is, and we find enough enthusiastic people to...
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March 15, 2011 at 12:01 pm
Do I think we should keep looking for a more universal, metadata and format rich format? Absolutely because, right now, you can't even just copy and paste between MS products...
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March 13, 2011 at 8:32 am
Why do I need Powershell, when I can do all the stuff in GUI using SSIS? Powershell is another geek tool.
Well, it certainly is a geek tool in the sense...
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Phil Factor
March 7, 2011 at 2:17 am
Maybe we should turn it around and list all the things that they spend way too much time and effort on, Jeff.
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March 6, 2011 at 6:20 am
Larry Gonick has been very intrigued by the problems of data-centres and their energy requirements. These cartoons were based on real stories. I wonder what he'll make of the...
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Phil Factor
February 1, 2011 at 11:30 am
A great deal of space in the internet is being taken up with he debate about climate change. It isn't really a database topic, and I don't think we'll even...
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Phil Factor
January 31, 2011 at 11:23 am
@niall.baird Hmm. Perhaps this is a base load generator: Scientists design cow dung-powered data centre
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Researchers have found a way to combine dairy farm waste and the heat generated from data...
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January 30, 2011 at 3:34 pm
The United States used 3723 TWh of power in 2006, and Europe was 3022. This makes the 56 Twh used by Data Centers in Europe come in at around...
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Phil Factor
January 30, 2011 at 3:25 pm
@clark_button - (going slightly off topic too) You could also try this, that Robyn and I wrote a while back for Simple-Talk
[font="Courier New"]DECLARE @types TABLE(
[2 digit year] INT NULL,
...
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Phil Factor
January 20, 2011 at 6:53 am
Thanks to David for pointing out the bug in my code. I've gotten so used to the SET LANGUAGE syntax without the string delimiters! I've fixed the code in my...
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Phil Factor
January 20, 2011 at 6:28 am
Yes, the correct shortnames for the months are listed in sys.syslanguages
If you run this code, it should show you how, in SQL Server, all the languages format the current...
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Phil Factor
January 20, 2011 at 4:25 am
Larry is back with a compendium of all his Raw Materials cartoons, along with four extra strips to promote the idea of the 'mobile DBA'. This can be downloaded from...
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Phil Factor
January 4, 2011 at 2:50 am
This is a great bit of research, with some timely warnings from Gianluca for anyone who makes assumptions about TSQL based on experience with a procedural language.
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Phil Factor
December 30, 2010 at 2:43 am
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