Great draft, and glad I was there. Went smoothly for me, and after I grabbed 1 at each position, I was watching bye weeks and checking the depth charts for...

Jeff is completely correct. Hire a consultant to interview DBAs for you. There are plenty of good ones that are willing to help.

Brent Ozar (brentozar.com) or Adam Machanic (www.sqlblog.com) do...

I tend to agree with what Jeff said. Fix the code where possible.

You can look at a job that kills the queries after some time, but there will be a...

You'll have to clarify what you mean by "you can't use it".

You can upgrade 2005 installations to 2012 or you can uninstall them if you like. Either way works.

I prefer

select Supplier = Supplier_name

from Suppliers

starunit (8/30/2012)

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I consider my vacation benefit as on par with the other compensation I receive for my time, such as a paycheck. I ask myself (and my boss) if he...

Steve Jones - SSC Editor (8/30/2012)

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Here's a partial. You should be able to do the rest

SELECT *

FROM FacilityXref FX,

inner join Facility

on FX.PointToId =...

Here's a partial. You should be able to do the rest

SELECT *

FROM FacilityXref FX,

inner join Facility

on FX.PointToId = Facility.Id

, #Type, FacilityCode

WHERE...

I think the Dodgers did well with this one. They get some names, they get some excitement, and they should be competitive for a couple years with these guys. In...

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.