quackhandle1975 (1/9/2014)

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Unfortunately as a freelance SQL DBA/Consultant in the UK being in and out of work I have to put up with "enforced" sabbaticals. However in the past year I...

Sean Redmond (1/9/2014)

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As a new suggestion, is there you always said that you wouldn't mind doing, but never got around to?

I'm thinking of something like sculpture, mastering a herb garden,...

Supposed to be 50F here today. With 2" of snow still on the ground :hehe:

Jeff Moden (1/6/2014)

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Considering the "DBAs" that I've interviewed in the last six months, I'd say they shouldn't take the time learning more about development... they should first learn how to...

Last year (and previous years), there were some outtakes at the end of each video editorial. Most are 3-5 min long, so the bloopers are after.

There are blooper reels, which...

It's not even elected people, but people in our own business. I have a demo showing how SQL Injection bypasses encryption in my...

I hope so

The book is interesting, but I'll have to save comments for after I finish. I will note that this isn't specific to SQL DBA stuff, and I wasn't intending for...

You could probably query the registry through xp_regread, but as Grant mentioned, really this is managed elsewhere.

If you don't have access and you're troubleshooting, I'd go ask someone else that...

The best thing to do is enable full logging in the maintenance plan task and then read that output log. It will have more information than the job itself.

Go into...

I am using VMs all over for many things, especially development. I don't like installing a plug-in or add-on that might break my system, and VMs protect me. I would...

Tony Bater (1/3/2014)

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Education, communication, understanding: they are all critical in resolving this issue.

My DBA background was initially as a developer in FoxPro where the code and the database are deeply...

gerardo.lima (1/3/2014)

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One good way is to periodically put DBAs to work within a developers team and the reverse. For my experience, developers should not take SGDBs abstractions as granted and...

Yet Another DBA (1/3/2014)

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:rolleyes:

One of the issue I come across is that some developers believe that writing a stored procedure or even a set based query will slow them down...

Holiday time for me. Lots of vacation to use up, and I've been mostly unwired.

That's cold weather up in MN. Its been up and down here. We've had plenty of...