anelson 66875 (7/20/2011)

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"Training" is dead - for IT jobs anyway. Training, as in getting somebody up to speed on a routine repeatable task like, say, machining an engine valve,...

Rod at work (7/20/2011)

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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...

sturner (7/20/2011)

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I believe it is an individuals responsibility to stay up to speed on the latest technology in their chosen field. If an employer is willing to pay for some...

I'd tend to agree here. Lots of...

bopeavy (7/20/2011)

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Steve

Care to expand on this...

I assumed Jason's would work for the first pattern.

It's a data mining thing, and I don't have a solution I can point you to, but it's the type of thing...

Can you explain what you ran, or what errors you got? Also, is this SQL 2005, and did you mean a new SQL 2005 instance?

If it's one MDF, did you...

pattern searching involves looking for certain patterns. So you'd have to define that the ABS() value repeats according to some order.

You could also do something like running a rolling regression...

I think it is a 2008 database. As soon as you restore it, the structure converts. If it's set to the compat mode, I'm not sure what else you could...

My apologies. I'm not sure if this was submitted with the wrong boxes marked, or I made a mistake, but we've corrected it.

Points have been awarded back and thanks for...

I like the hand waving step 😉

What about using a reporting database at company B with views to the log shipped db, and then enabling some level of cross database...

If you're looking for the ABS() in a repeating way, is there some ordering column? Rows in SQL have no order by default, so you can't find a pattern without...

Dentist

Ugh

GSquared (7/19/2011)

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Freddie-304292 (7/19/2011)

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I think it's a bit unfair to say that people out of work for a year are bad DBAs. They may be great DBAs, but bad at...

I mostly agree with Mr. Klopcic, and you ought to look to train constantly, or retrain if you are struggling to find work. Or move. The unemployment situation varies widely...