roryp 96873 (1/18/2013)

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Anyone ever been to Chase Field in Phoenix? I am going to be down there in April and try to catch a game, just wondering if anyone...

to paraphrase Roger Rabbit, pppppppppppplllllllllleeeeeeeeeaaaaaasssseeeeeeee

Use this technique:...

Miles Neale (1/17/2013)

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Steve Jones - SSC Editor (1/17/2013)

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Steve,

From the article and the discussion I took away that you are in favor...

wolfkillj (1/18/2013)

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MS announced that SQL Server 2012R2 will be released in late 2014 and will officially support both DBCC...

nycdotnet (1/18/2013)

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Full HD video is something like 10GB/hr - Let's say in the future we have Quad HD (2160p) 60 FPS 3D movies, that's 160 GB per hour or 320...

William Vach (1/18/2013)

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I think that before we get there storage/RAM on a laptop will become a moot point. We will have virtual machines in a cloud that we will...

-=JLK=- (1/18/2013)

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I have no idea when we'll get there, but I have no doubt we will, though I truely suspect we will see a return to dumb terminals and huge...

aberman 63872 (1/18/2013)

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My first computer (apple 2) had 64K of memory.

Hardware specs for mobile devices will mean less and less as move computing moves to the cloud. My 6...

David.Poole (1/17/2013)

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I'm another one who agrees with JimBob.

I got excited about external activiation but this is service broker talking to an external app, not an external app talking to service...

bj_fentress (1/17/2013)

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Hey Steve,

Great post on security! I do use password safe here at work religiously, but I was curious if there was something out there that does the same thing...

The XML part is definitely challenging for beginners. It's the same with Extended Events and a number of other systems introduced in R2/2012. I don't think it's that hard, but...

If you have the files in a CSV, then you can put a column at the right and use a formula for =LEN(A1) or whatever the column in.

To import into...

It's hard to understand if you are quoting something or stating something.

Full backups do not affect or break the log chain. The full backup can include part of the log,...

This kind of works, but I'm wondering if you've calculated something in this view already.

SELECT cid, COUNT(DISTINCT ccid)

FROM dbo.MyTable

GROUP BY cid

How are you getting the counts? are you basing this on the CCID column for a CID?

It's better if you can give DDL like this:

CREATE TABLE mytable

( CId int

, CCId...