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  • RE: We Are Not a Meritocracy

    TravisDBA (12/15/2010)

    I agree, but having the first doesn't mean doodly squat if the person does not have the skills to get the difficult job we do done, and the fact...

    December 15, 2010 at 9:28 am

    #1262963

  • RE: Date Conversion

    You can convert from strings to dates and vice versa (see Cast/Convert in BOL) with NULLs.

    December 15, 2010 at 9:25 am

    #1262960

  • RE: We Are Not a Meritocracy

    TravisDBA (12/15/2010)

    Ok, now for the real world. As long as cronyism continues to be rampant in this industry achieving a true meritocracy will never happen. I once knew a person...

    December 15, 2010 at 8:41 am

    #1262922

  • RE: We Are Not a Meritocracy

    OCTom (12/15/2010)

    Get along? Are you kidding me Steve? Did we just take a trip to namby-pamby land? (to quote a recent U.S. commercial) I don't need to be best buds...

    December 15, 2010 at 8:38 am

    #1262916

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Craig Farrell (12/14/2010)

    Steve Jones - SSC Editor (12/14/2010)

    Is it now more, or less, frightening?

    I'm now wishing I was underwater in the scuba gear... kilts skeer me! Won any blue...

    December 14, 2010 at 4:05 pm

    #1262583

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Is it now more, or less, frightening?

    December 14, 2010 at 2:25 pm

    #1262521

  • RE: Inserting duplicate key?? Why??

    You are welcome, and glad it's working.

    You were on a good track, and using temp tables to work with a subset of data for troubleshooting is something you can use...

    December 14, 2010 at 2:04 pm

    #1262492

  • RE: Date Conversion

    What do you mean by date conversions? NULL doesn't convert to anything but NULL.

    NULL might be your best bet. You can always do MINDATE() ... WHERE mydate > '1/2/1900'

    December 14, 2010 at 2:03 pm

    #1262491

  • RE: What's Happening Here?

    grahamc (12/14/2010)

    In this case it might not be such a big deal, but surely a counter like Page Life Expectancy is a better way of monitoring Memory pressure??

    This is typically...

    December 14, 2010 at 2:01 pm

    #1262488

  • RE: Infromation from tables

    Typically the "pull" is through a query. As far as how you'll get the data to people, you'll have to make some decisions.

    If you are just pulling this from...

    December 14, 2010 at 1:59 pm

    #1262485

  • RE: What's Happening Here?

    rabartels (12/14/2010)

    perhaps first look if your I/O is fine

    Benchmarking SQL Server IO with SQLIO

    http://www.mssqltips.com/tip.asp?tip=2127

    Good idea, though we're already in production. Hard to stop things and bang on the disks with...

    December 14, 2010 at 1:50 pm

    #1262475

  • RE: Talking baseball

    The Phillies certainly are the favorites on paper, but we don't play on paper. Anyone think the Giants were going to win before Oct last year?

    Phillies have had injuries in...

    December 14, 2010 at 1:48 pm

    #1262471

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Craig Farrell (12/14/2010)

    GilaMonster (12/14/2010)

    Brandie Tarvin (12/14/2010)

    (Where's my halo? Self-righteous doesn't work without my halo, darnit!)

    How long did it take you to forge your own halo, in between the lightning strikes,...

    December 14, 2010 at 1:46 pm

    #1262469

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Brandie Tarvin (12/14/2010)

    GilaMonster (12/14/2010)

    Want some entertainment? I give you Gus's reply here http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/FindPost1034345.aspx, nominated for comment on the week.

    It almost resulted in coffee over laptop.

    I can see why. @=) I'll...

    December 14, 2010 at 1:45 pm

    #1262468

  • RE: The Low End

    The "low end" refers to the barrier to entry. It's easy(ier) to pick up development skills on these products, as opposed to C/C++

    December 14, 2010 at 1:44 pm

    #1262467

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