Andrew..Peterson (1/21/2015)

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Steve, you are lucky to be with a company that understands that the best comes from respect. for anyone new to the work world, be wise in what...

Eric M Russell (1/21/2015)

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I don't take offense if I'm called after work, so long as it's regarding something that's broke in production. The way I see it, if I done...

Chris Cradock (1/21/2015)

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Steve, the German laws have more to do about enforcing a level playing field across all employers than it has to do with the individual. Without such statute...

Sure thing. I think if you change your author name, it...

I don't like those naming conventions because they can change. Imagine someone says create PO numbers. You do intPO or something. Then a year down the road you find you...

It would be good to see something like:

Original data

Cust Year Period FLIGHTHRSSUM LATEFEESUM EXCHFEESUM

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A 2015 1 ...

In terms of moving data, I know this link is Azure, but I'd think some of this would be similar in Amazon. I'll have to try it at some point:...

I tend to agree with Solomon here. The .NET tools are widely known, though perhaps not by DBAs. This is advanced tooling, and rather than have MS build something else,...

For those of you concerned about costs, if you paid by the CPU/RAM instead of standard/enterprise, would that work?

Let's say that it was something like $800/core and $100/8GB of RAM....

Eric M Russell (1/20/2015)

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I'm sure the folks in Microsofts accounting department took Econ 101 while in university. If enterprise level customers keep switching to other database platforms primarily on the...

Hmmm, nothing we have set up for a discussion, but probably need it. I know it's working in 2012 (just tested). Will fire up a VM and check 2014.

Which version...

david.gugg (1/20/2015)

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We're on 2008 R2 Enterprise at my shop and we've cancelled plans to upgrade to 2012 because of the costs. Once Microsoft stops supporting 2008 R2 I believe...

If you start to extend this to lots of potential items, then a trigger grows to slow things, or cause issues. A trigger might work in production, but potentially if...

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Apologies. Not sure why I had numeric as 17 and not 38 for the scale.

Points awarded back, answers changed.