Andy sql (1/13/2016)

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Let's not forget that a COTS still involves an employee's time, from evaluating the possible products available, determining specs, reading the documentation (if there is any), pulling hair...

Gary Varga (1/13/2016)

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I would recommend it being outside the...

I was told it was in the boot page for the snapshot (or db)

DBCC TRACEON(3604);

DBCC PAGE(0,1,9,3);

If you're looking for other exercises, exercism.io is another place.

I'll grant you that if there are no non-clustered indexes, this isn't a problem, but you have other problems if you have no indexes on the table. If it's a...

Thanks, will check it out.

peter.row (1/12/2016)

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Really Steve?

A Google site appears not to work on an MS browser? Did you read the rest of my post?

Obviously we are all biased by the sites we use....

Interesting question. If I create a snapshot in a clean db/log, I get only 3 log records. They are the

LOP_BEGIN_CKPT

LOP_XACT_CKPT

LOP_END_CKPT

I'm guessing it's one of these, likely the end, but...

Do you mean how does VMWare ( or the hypervisor) work with SQL Server inside a VM? Meaning there is a host and inside of multiple VMs, SQL Server instances...

This is bad. Don't do it.

http://www.sqlskills.com/blogs/paul/a-sql-server-dba-myth-a-day-2930-fixing-heap-fragmentation/

Ralph,

That's cool. Neat you've seen some of those.

The landing was something. We saw it get close, then the flames go out and as everyone on the causeway started to cheer,...

roger.plowman (1/11/2016)

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100 hours? You're off by an order of magnitude.

Assuming you spend a full year working @ 40 hours/week that's 2,080 hours.

It takes *at least* two months (8 weeks or...

xsevensinzx (1/10/2016)

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I think 100 hours would surely put you beyond a complete newbie in something. The problem I faced when learning Python in the past 3 years is retention of...

One I heard today I...

I'm worried about completely new. I have just had bad luck a few times.

The Yoga is interesting. I need 16GB and newer models support that. I'm watching how Tim Mitchell...