LOL, my daughter had fun helping me with the picture.

John Hanrahan (8/29/2012)

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Wow that's a very self limiting belief that personality cannot be taught. You bet it can, I would just say it's generally harder to change personality than...

djackson 22568 (8/29/2012)

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I believe people should think about what they say. I also don't buy the "identically qualified" candidate argument. IMO HR departments and others tend to focus...

thadeushuck (8/29/2012)

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This is how it starts. Steve wants us to police our language at work. Then the government passes laws banning curse words at work and at home for the...

Big data: http://techcrunch.com/2012/08/22/how-big-is-facebooks-data-2-5-billion-pieces-of-content-and-500-terabytes-ingested-every-day/

Ugh.

YW. Make sure you backup certificates ASAP when you create them. Lost certificate is lost data. Period.

Make sure you secure those backup files, along with any passwords used for keys.

skanker (8/28/2012)

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Just read this after coming back off my Summer hols - two weeks of fun with the family. I am always astounded that someone does not use all...

Tobar (8/28/2012)

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This is the only thing I have disagreed with.

A well-trained, well-staffed central IT probably would,...

I don't see anything in BOL (R2 is here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb895327%28v=sql.105%29)

However I don't see any reason why symmetric and asymmetric keys aren't available in Express. I see articles about SSL communications,...

This is deferred resolution and it...

Stored procedures are just sets of code, like a batch you'd run from SSMS.

you add a header with parameters like this:

create procedure MyProc

@myvar varchar(20)

as

Then you add the code...

mandeep_nyc (8/27/2012)

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if you run the script as it is, it will fail because a GO is requried.

Secondly, I just ran this in a new database, and when creating the proc's...

kent_secher (8/27/2012)

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That was my...

Clients typically don't start a process on the server and hold locks. When an application SELECTs data, and the data is returned, there are no locks held while the user...