Jeff Moden (11/8/2013)

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But "good enough" frequently means that something simply works for 5 or 10 rows and they ship it and that ain't "right". 😉 "Good enough" frequently means...

Ed Wagner (11/8/2013)

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You know, thinking about this some more, it really is a shame we aren't more honest and transparent as a whole. I wonder what this says about...

both Ed and Gail have given good resources.

the other thing I'd suggest is that you create a test copy of your db, run some queries, add indexes, and re-run them....

What's "right"?

Jeff, overall I agree that we should...

roger.plowman (11/8/2013)

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And that's why "good enough" leads to HealthCare.gov type solutions. Sure, you can have bad developers who don't understand all the parts of the system and why certain approaches...

It's not working for me either. No idea why. I've submitted a bug.

Interesting. Wonder what some you think?

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/11/why_the_governm.html

Thanks. It was crazy, fun, and exhausting.

If it's a PK, you can't have a violation. However, not sure if values are reused.

There are no grants for encrypting/decrypting data. This is controlled when a user can open a key that performs the function. This could be in a stored proc or with...

GilaMonster (11/7/2013)

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No, I really do mean backup.

If you try a RESTORE LOG on a database that's online, all you'll get is an error (no files are ready to roll forward),...

Not sure how things are allocated, but databases are limited to the 2B object limit.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms143432%28v=sql.120%29.aspx

I'd set it to single user or restricted user, with immediate rollback and then restore. This is what sestell1 suggested as well.

That way I can Check things before/after the restore...

There are probably more, but I'd make a rational argument that part of the reason schedules are missed is because developers are not allowed to develop comfortably. They should have...

Tom John-342103 (11/7/2013)

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At one point, one of the telcos started to offer billing to the nearest second or something like that where the competition could only do it to the...