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  • RE: I Want Stupid Employees

    Steve Jones - SSC Editor (7/20/2011)


    Rod at work (7/20/2011)


    I appreciate this article, Steve, as it's something I have faced for the last 3 years. No training, no conferences, etc....

  • RE: I Want Stupid Employees

    I appreciate this article, Steve, as it's something I have faced for the last 3 years. No training, no conferences, etc. However, in my situation it isn't so much...

  • RE: We Need a DBA Boot Camp

    I totally agree with you, Andy. I'm one of those accidental DBA's. We're a small IT shop (used to be 4 of us, but we've lost 1 recently...

  • RE: More Regulation Coming?

    Boy, Steve, you nailed this one! I work in an industry closely related to healthcare (it isn't really, but there are similarities), and our budget is shrinking constantly (20%...

  • RE: Why Can't We Code?

    Ron Porter (6/8/2011)


    I have a question related to the fact that there seems to be a lot of demand that programmers have a bunch of their own work to show...

  • RE: Why Can't We Code?

    This is a tough question. I work for a university, and when I've been involved in interviewing people for open positions I've learned how hard that is. For...

  • RE: Greed Is Good (for IT)

    Good points, Steve.

  • RE: Greed Is Good (for IT)

    Mark Cook-926564 (5/26/2011)


    Greed is never good, for anyone, least of all the person driven by it. Maybe another word, another motivation?

    I agree. Some other word would probably have done...

  • RE: A couple of questions about SQL 2008 Express

    Really?! Man, I'm amazed, about rich text and what we've stored in our varchar(max) fields. WOW. That's like an epithany, at least on a small scale. ...

  • RE: A couple of questions about SQL 2008 Express

    Steve Jones - SSC Editor (5/24/2011)


    No idea on relationships, but nvarchar(max) and varchar(max) for Latin data are the same. Only if you are storing data requiring Unicode does this matter.

    Steve,...

  • RE: A couple of questions about SQL 2008 Express

    Ninja's_RGR'us (5/24/2011)


    If you really want to transfer everything I'd look into access based upsizing wizards. I don't have any recommandations, but those will be built by and for people...

  • RE: Why is it that opening .sql files in a project requires signing in each time?

    Eddie Wuerch (5/16/2011)


    Are you running the RTM version of SSMS 2005? That was the case with the original version, to present 'look, we're more secure this way', but after everyone...

  • RE: Why is it that opening .sql files in a project requires signing in each time?

    Steve Jones - SSC Editor (5/16/2011)


    If you have an active connection, you can open all of them without issue. Is there a reason you can't make one connection and leave...

  • RE: Where should I local a SQL Express database?

    I had planned on creating the database just once, on my development machine, and then copying it to each user's area, using whatever deployment option I eventually use.

  • RE: Will there be a SQL 11 R2?

    GilaMonster (4/21/2011)


    Rod at work (4/12/2011)


    SQL 2011, or SQL 11 for short.

    It's referred to as SQL 11 because the major version number is 11. SQL 2008 was version 10.0, SQL...

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