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  • RE: Work to Live

    Gary Varga (5/6/2016)


    So Steve is at SQLBits (in Liverpool?) and I am in Harrogate enjoying a beer ready for a weekend of (field) hockey. Steve's winning (as always) but today...

  • RE: Stress Testing

    The Cloud (Azure, AWS, etc) are great solutions and products. In some scenarios. In others, they don't make sense.

    You can scale up and down, and pausing things certainly can work....

  • RE: Who's going to SQL Bits in Liverpool?

    Eirikur Eiriksson (5/7/2016)


    Heading home after a great two days in Liverpool, very good to see you guys again, finally met Gianluca and Hugo, saw Chris, Grant, Steve, Erland, Itzik and...

  • RE: Changing collation

    sorry, a typo. It's corrected

  • RE: Changed Linked Server properties

    Thanks, David. Take it.

  • RE: More Unicode

    Wayne West (5/6/2016)


    SQLRNNR (5/6/2016)


    Oy vey, I missed the choose 2 somehow. Oh well. Otherwise, it is a straight forward question and I must have missed all the commotion about it...

  • RE: More Unicode

    tbailey 19088 (5/6/2016)


    "Correct" answer and explanation disagree. Small 'a' is NCHAR(97).

    this has been corrected. The correct answer is 65 (and Yes). The code returns this. The explanation was correct, but...

  • RE: More Unicode

    Apologies for marking the wrong answer.

    Points have been awarded back to everyone as of now.

  • RE: Why STUFF

    Rolling through airports today, but I'll award back points tomorrow.

  • RE: Why STUFF

    ThomasRushton (5/4/2016)


    What? Nobody's made a crack about Steve stuffing up the QotD? For shame!

    ARRGGHH, I deserved that. That's what I get for experimenting and copying code without re-running...

  • RE: Any Plans for a Stairway to SQL Server Analysis Services

    It started and died. Having a hard time getting an author to commit.

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    GilaMonster (5/4/2016)


    Sean Lange (5/4/2016)


    WayneS (5/4/2016)


    Anyone else having trouble receiving the SSC newsletters? I just received Saturday's "Database Weekly", and I haven't received any of the daily ones this week.

    Yeah they...

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    xsevensinzx (5/3/2016)


    Hey guys,

    Need some advice. I got a really good job offer recently to work at a company as a DBA. I'm currently a data architect that built and manages...

  • RE: Explicit tempdb

    timwell (5/3/2016)


    Maybe this is cheating, but one of the top items in my google search was Steve's recent blog post about it:

    http://www.sqlservercentral.com/blogs/steve_jones/2016/04/25/explicitly-using-tempdb-with-tables/

    Kind of cheating. I'd hope you'd have a guess...

  • RE: Install Cumulative Updates

    Chris Harshman (5/2/2016)


    I think Microsoft's current cycle of 2 year major releases and 2 month cumulative updates shows that they still don't understand their customers (the corporate world), their needs,...

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