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  • Reply To: Growing and Changing

    I struggle with this myself as well. When I'm in a hurry, tired, or busy, I tend to lean on experience. It's hard to know how often to try something...

  • Reply To: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Nice, glad you got to meet. I hope to go to Providence at some point.

  • Reply To: A while ago I stopped receiving my daily and weekly newsletters.

    Send a note to the webmaster with this request and your email. Likely at some point your email server started refusing the messages and they bounced a few times, at...

  • Reply To: Data Migration

    If you're trying to do this incrementally, then you need some way to determine what data has changed. SSIS is likely the best choice here as you need to do...

  • Reply To: SQL Server Upgrade

    Nope, I see people replacing hardware as needed these days. Sometimes they work on a lease arrangement (3-5 years), sometimes they keep it around if it meets the workload.

    No reason...

  • Reply To: SQL Server Upgrade

    Are you asking is there a reason not to re-used hardware? If so, no if it meets your needs for resources.

     

  • Reply To: SQL SEREVR QUERY

    Also, please show the results you expect, or some of them. Format this as plan code, using the code sample button in the toolbar.

  • Reply To: Synonyms for Tables

    I assume this is because you might be doing some refactoring, and perhaps want to point a routine to the specific place while you're using a temp table in place...

  • Reply To: Website search

    crowdsourcing is on the list. We allow tags (now) in the forums, which helps. Content needs more tags, though we had issues allowing random tags on the old site. Need...

  • Reply To: Website search

    Hmmm, keyword searches are definitely hard, and I wish we had something more layered. There are tags for sure that can help, but organizing to get all of xxx is...

  • Reply To: Website search

    We do have a site search, which does limit to this domain for google. You can also limit by content type.

    Is there something you were looking for?

  • Reply To: The First Rule

    That's a great quote

  • Reply To: The First Rule

    The main point of the article is that we should expect data to change and allow for this. Not just with database design, but with the ETL, NULL/defaults, and more....

  • Reply To: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Ray K wrote:

    Congrats, Steve!  How'd you like Potsdam?

    I have a lot of friends who went to Potsdam.

    Just as long as she doesn't root for Clarkson hockey...! 😀

    It's a neat town. We...

  • Reply To: The First Rule

    dbishop wrote:

    As I see it, there is nothing wrong with "immutable" natural keys. LastName + FirstName + MiddleName as a natural key? NEVER!!!!!

    The one thing I'll say in defense of...

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