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  • RE: Where are the good Senior Level DBA's?

    Junior vs Senior DBA can clearly be established based on salary.

    You are worth whatever your company is willing to pay you

    So true.

    Steve Jimmo
    Sr DBA
    “If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a Nation gone under." - Ronald Reagan

  • RE: Where are the good Senior Level DBA's?

    You ALL failed. 😉

    I have gone back and read this entire thread. At times I fond it to be humerous. Not one has mentioned the templates that are available through...

    Steve Jimmo
    Sr DBA
    “If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a Nation gone under." - Ronald Reagan

  • RE: Resource Pools

    Great question - really got the juices flowing. Was able to get the first 2 but that elusive 3rd one was a stab in the dark. Got it right but...

    Steve Jimmo
    Sr DBA
    “If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a Nation gone under." - Ronald Reagan

  • RE: Where are all the MVBs?

    Jeff

    a lot of DBA's have become like old folks (a serious compliment, actually). They really know how to get things done but everyone thinks they're hard of hearing and possibly...

    Steve Jimmo
    Sr DBA
    “If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a Nation gone under." - Ronald Reagan

  • RE: Elementary Key Attributes

    Good question, got it right but only after flip flopping back and forth on a couple of the choices because the verbage was so close.

    Really god tthe juices going.

    thanks

    Steve Jimmo
    Sr DBA
    “If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a Nation gone under." - Ronald Reagan

  • RE: transaction replication from sql server 2k8 to 2k5 ?

    I have a very large replication system, using 2008 as my distributor and replicating to 2K as well as 2K5 subscribers without any issues. The issue arises when you use...

    Steve Jimmo
    Sr DBA
    “If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a Nation gone under." - Ronald Reagan

  • RE: Automation for running scripts on Multiple DBs of SQL Server 2008

    I use MultiScript from RedGate Software. It works great. I use it to run against multiple databases as well as against muiltiple servers.

    Steve Jimmo
    Sr DBA
    “If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a Nation gone under." - Ronald Reagan

  • RE: Jeff Moden elected Exceptional DBA of 2011

    Congratulations Jeff. Well deserved.

    Steve Jimmo
    Sr DBA
    “If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a Nation gone under." - Ronald Reagan

  • RE: INSERT INTO

    Yay - I got it right 🙂

    By getting it wrong :crazy:

    The answer for the second select is not 2

    Steve Jimmo
    Sr DBA
    “If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a Nation gone under." - Ronald Reagan

  • RE: Store all in one database instead of one prodcution database and one historic database

    Avalin

    I will consider your inputs and take a discussion with my colleuges if we shall do this or not. It seems like we shall think it through many times...

    Steve Jimmo
    Sr DBA
    “If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a Nation gone under." - Ronald Reagan

  • RE: How can I improve execution time for pulling iSeries DB2 data into SQL Server using SSIS

    We are doing the exact same thing here daily. We found that to do larger tables which in our case is 46 M rows, we had to go to SSIS...

    Steve Jimmo
    Sr DBA
    “If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a Nation gone under." - Ronald Reagan

  • RE: Memory Issue - Any help would be greatly appreciated!

    Gail,

    Thanks - still learning;-)

    Steve Jimmo
    Sr DBA
    “If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a Nation gone under." - Ronald Reagan

  • RE: Memory Issue - Any help would be greatly appreciated!

    Gila

    thread stack, backup buffers, CLR, in-process linked server drivers and a couple other things

    Question - wouldn't these all show as an external process to windows?

    Steve Jimmo
    Sr DBA
    “If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a Nation gone under." - Ronald Reagan

  • RE: Memory Issue - Any help would be greatly appreciated!

    SQLFRNDZ

    Gila

    SQL should never be using the page file. If it is, something's already wrong.

    So pagefile usage can be an indication to the memory bottleneck

    Pagefile is used by the OS, not...

    Steve Jimmo
    Sr DBA
    “If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a Nation gone under." - Ronald Reagan

  • RE: Third PArty Tool for SQL Server Monitoring and alert emails

    I agree with Grant, and will add also SQL Sentry.

    Steve Jimmo
    Sr DBA
    “If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a Nation gone under." - Ronald Reagan

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