Forum Replies Created

Viewing 15 posts - 10,051 through 10,065 (of 39,800 total)

  • RE: Normal Data

    Doctor Who 2 (1/31/2015)

    I agree with you Steve, but sometimes I wonder. Where I worked we had 18 years worth of data which I've maintained and advocated for years, should...

    February 2, 2015 at 8:30 am

    #1774796

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Lynn Pettis (2/1/2015)

    ... Mark one off, 26 days on the calendar to go. 26 days on the calendar to go, 26 days to go, ...

    Cheers, my man. I'd buy you...

    February 2, 2015 at 8:28 am

    #1774795

  • RE: The Cost of Switching

    David.Poole (1/31/2015)

    Real DBAs script things because their tasks have to be reliable and repeatable across many environments. Ditto rollback activity.

    I think you'd be surprised at this. So many of...

    February 2, 2015 at 8:27 am

    #1774792

  • RE: Where do senior SQL DBAs land finally?

    Jeff Moden (1/30/2015)

    Wow! I'm thinking you just wrote a great editorial. You should turn it into one.

    Thought about that as well 😉

    Glad you like it.

    January 30, 2015 at 3:37 pm

    #1774500

  • RE: Too Large a Workload?

    GA Programmer (1/30/2015)

    I've commented often about this issue within our industry. I think the biggest problem is ourselves. We don't set down the proper expectations, so when they ask...

    January 30, 2015 at 12:12 pm

    #1774446

  • RE: Where do senior SQL DBAs land finally?

    There is no landing, senior or not. There are only stops along the path of your career.

    As you gain experience, and talent, you will have more, and fewer choices, but...

    January 30, 2015 at 9:46 am

    #1774396

  • RE: Restore from a backup with a wildcard ??

    The only real drawback is the pattern of the file changing or you not accounting for something with the conversions.

    The other options are writing some type of script that looks...

    January 30, 2015 at 9:30 am

    #1774388

  • RE: Largest MS SQL Server Databases

    Perry Whittle (1/29/2015)

    we have one here over 8TB in size and growing

    clustered?

    January 29, 2015 at 9:58 am

    #1774076

  • RE: ID or Id

    Eric M Russell (1/27/2015)

    Regardless of datatype, I don't want to see a column names having no contextual prefix, meaning just "ID" by itself, on any table, and much less on...

    January 29, 2015 at 9:56 am

    #1774073

  • RE: Largest MS SQL Server Databases

    aneesh-295465 (1/29/2015)

    We have a spatial database which is just over 7 petabytes

    Wow, what's in there, if you can disclose.

    Any chance you want to write about the challenges of doing anything...

    January 29, 2015 at 9:36 am

    #1774059

  • RE: Normal Data

    GoofyGuy (1/28/2015)

    ... there might be a legitimate complaint, but often we need to discard this one form as an outlier.

    Chances are it seemed legitimate to the person who wrote the...

    January 29, 2015 at 9:36 am

    #1774058

  • RE: When do you use CREATE DATABASE ... WITH FOR ATTACH_REBUILD_LOG?

    Only time I've used this is when we have the mdf, but not the ldf. This is almost always because someone never set up backups and tried to move a...

    January 27, 2015 at 1:02 pm

    #1773487

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Yesterday in Denver

    January 27, 2015 at 11:39 am

    #1773459

  • RE: The PIVOT

    Ed Wagner (1/27/2015)

    I'm also someone who doesn't use pivot much at all. It seems like I have to look up the syntax nearly every time I use it.

    Me too,...

    January 27, 2015 at 9:01 am

    #1773406

  • RE: Deploy the Database First

    Eric M Russell (1/26/2015)

    So, deploying a new procedure, table, or column days or weeks before the associated application change is deployed? Yes, that happens all the time in my universe...

    January 26, 2015 at 3:13 pm

    #1773245

Viewing 15 posts - 10,051 through 10,065 (of 39,800 total)