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  • RE: Going Green in Software Development

    OCTom (11/7/2011)


    Steve,

    What have you determined about the cost-effectiveness of wind and solar energy? Everything I've been hearing and reading has been pretty negative.

    Thanks,

    Tom

    It's very hard to tell. Some people want...

  • RE: Going Green in Software Development

    Someguy (11/7/2011)


    ...

    Maybe the power consumption of individual work stations should be considered? One wasted watt spread over 10 million machines adds up. On the other hand, it often adds up...

  • RE: Hw to restore an encrypted database backup in sql server 2008 (using script)?

    There is Transparent Data Encryption or column encryption, no database level encryption. Whichever one you choose, you will need to be careful about backing up and managing the encryption keys....

  • RE: ETL

    Mark Stacey (11/4/2011)


    I would love to see your benchmarks of custom .NET for integration vs SSIS

    Esp in an article. If you want to write it up, show a scenario and...

  • RE: constant variable

    Use Gus' advice. You could use a function, but a simple select works just as well. Depends on how you want to encapsulate this for developers.

  • RE: Employee Slurping

    TravisDBA (11/4/2011)


    As long as people are in the equation, security is never air tight.:-D

    Ha, as long as we have people, I think security is holds water like a colander.

  • RE: Database does backup

    Can you run a backup manually?

  • RE: constant variable

    I've done what I think Gail suggests and used a table as a global variable store, or a definition table. You store values in there that are needed in the...

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    SQLRNNR (11/4/2011)


    sweet - but is it cheating if you didn't catch me?

    I think he just did :w00t:

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    SQLRNNR (11/4/2011)


    Oh wait, you meant for query plan operators.

    What is this query plan operator?

    Alien ship attacking Beijing skyscraper?

  • RE: first attempt at automated backup plan

    +1 with what JonFox said.

  • RE: Password Help

    Shared password changes shouldn't be frequent, if they are, then you have other HR issues and security is likely compromised in many ways.

    A shared password system (KeePass, Password Safe, etc)...

  • RE: Checking my work

    Good suggestions above. One thing I do it evolve my process over time. It's hard with ad hoc queries, but I will find that someone will ask for data, but...

  • RE: What else have you done?

    LOL, tore up my shoulder playing rugby in college. Took two years away, bartending, managing a night club while I tried to decide what to do. Went back to...

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    No other reports to me, at least that I saw when I got back in town this afternoon.

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