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Tend to agree with Grant. Certification allows you to prove that you've learned things and been tested, but if you can't perform the things because you crammed and didn't learn...
May 22, 2008 at 8:34 am
What is being run? It's possible you have executed something that is waiting for user input, and you'll never get that.
May 22, 2008 at 8:33 am
They are both important, and hopefully quality brings consistency, but if you step into a situation where you have inconsistency and a lack of quality code, what do you tackle...
May 22, 2008 at 6:18 am
I think this is more of the Google model than RAC, trying to get some amount of copies of data for redundancy of access. It's an interesting idea and I'm...
May 22, 2008 at 6:14 am
I think definitions 1, 2, and 3 are the ones to apply here.
How can you tell rejected ideas would ever be better or worse? Presumably someone rejected them because they...
May 21, 2008 at 4:24 pm
Loner,
I know you've had a bad experience, but not every company is like that. There are lots of good companies out there and many of them will hire DBAs, especially...
May 21, 2008 at 4:20 pm
Duplicate: discussed here: http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic504243-148-1.aspx
May 21, 2008 at 10:31 am
I don't think there's an easy way to do this as the user needs to be able to select from sysdatabases to choose master, tempdb, etc. along with their database.
The...
May 21, 2008 at 8:42 am
Consistency != inflexibility
If you want to try something new, then you develop a consistent way to do it, propose it to the group, explain it, debate it, etc. and make...
May 21, 2008 at 8:39 am
The page split thing is an interesting one and it makes sense. You're allowing read of dirty data and page splits, and re indexing, would have uncommitted transactions in terms...
May 21, 2008 at 8:35 am
Very strange. I'm not sure what happened here. I know the maintenance plan opens a cursor in some tasks to loop through databases, but I'm not sure why you'd get...
May 21, 2008 at 8:33 am
The log file is set to a certain size, not grown from 0. A restore restores the data, not the log. It sets the log file size, but it doesn't...
May 21, 2008 at 8:32 am
I'm confused a little. Who has what date setting?
Your PC
Your SQL instance
Server SQL Instance
Server date settings
client workstation settings
This can get tricky as some date settings are handled by the client...
May 21, 2008 at 8:30 am
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