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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    New laptop, and new labs for me. Toshiba Z30 arrived yesterday, so setup begins today. Then I have to make the switch from Hyper-V back to VMWare (corp decision), so...

    January 17, 2015 at 11:02 am

    #1770956

  • RE: SQL Password Policy and Expiration

    I looked at this awhile ago, so this from memory. I don't have time to test, but I'd be sure if I were you, I put up a VM and...

    January 16, 2015 at 4:56 pm

    #1770920

  • RE: SQL Server 2012 Build List

    Michael.Beeby (1/16/2015)

    11.00.5556 has appeared.

    Thanks, updated

    January 16, 2015 at 4:44 pm

    #1770919

  • RE: Is it a good idea to use a UDDT + Rules for this?

    I like that you're keeping a surrogate key. Good idea.

    I like Lowell's thoughts on computed columns. While not specifically doing this, I have done similar things in the past and...

    January 16, 2015 at 10:39 am

    #1770833

  • RE: Improvements to site accessibility

    Thanks, I'll see if we can't clean up some of this.

    January 16, 2015 at 10:37 am

    #1770832

  • RE: A Little Empathy

    isaacchk (1/15/2015)

    Steve - I don't think I get the last sentence "just asking a business person to tell me what to do often results in neither of us being successful."...

    January 15, 2015 at 12:07 pm

    #1770533

  • RE: Hadoop and SQL Server

    Eric M Russell (1/15/2015)

    My point is that the fundamental difference between relational databases versus Big Data NoSQL databases is actually not technical or even philosophical; Microsoft and Oracle have crossed...

    January 15, 2015 at 8:56 am

    #1770493

  • RE: Finding out Total Disk Space in TSQL

    JimAtWork (2/3/2014)

    I have the same challenge and I have to query thousands of servers many of which do not allow the use of OA_ and also do not allow the...

    January 15, 2015 at 8:37 am

    #1770488

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    spaghettidba (1/15/2015)

    Catching up after a few days away...

    @steve-2:

    I would buy the X5. BMWs are great cars and even old ones (mine is 6 year old) look like new. The engine...

    January 15, 2015 at 8:31 am

    #1770485

  • RE: Finding out Total Disk Space in TSQL

    Ah, sorry, didn't realize this was a SQL 2000 instance.

    You could use something like prasenjit221's code. I don't have a SQL 2000 instance handy to test, but that looks compatible....

    January 15, 2015 at 8:11 am

    #1770476

  • RE: Hadoop and SQL Server

    Licensing isn't an issue, except that often we as the geeks do make recommendations. While it can be cheaper to spin things up, it isn't always cheaper. We've done analysis...

    January 15, 2015 at 8:08 am

    #1770474

  • RE: Prevent sp_ Procedures with SQLCop

    John Mitchell-245523 (1/15/2015)

    SQLvis (1/15/2015)

    Is there a list of standard object nomenclature for indexes, procedures, functions, and views (etc) that most teams should follow?

    Not really. It's more important to have...

    January 15, 2015 at 8:02 am

    #1770470

  • RE: Prevent sp_ Procedures with SQLCop

    Ness (1/15/2015)

    Is there a reason why you wouldn't just use native policy management in SQL to achieve the same?

    PBM works great in production servers, but it takes some setup and...

    January 15, 2015 at 8:01 am

    #1770467

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Grant Fritchey (1/14/2015)

    Back on topic for a moment.

    Maybe I'm in a weird head-space at the moment, but it seems like the questions have gotten... not worse, but weirder. Sort of...

    January 14, 2015 at 4:04 pm

    #1770294

  • RE: Closest value

    How did you solve it? Might help someone else that reads this thread.

    January 14, 2015 at 4:04 pm

    #1770293

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