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  • RE: The Cult of Mediocrity

    archie flockhart (6/26/2012)


    eventually you have to provide a viable service and actually make a profit or you go bankrupt.

    Or you need to accept that there are some things which...

  • RE: The Cult of Mediocrity

    patrickmcginnis59 (6/26/2012)


    Or would all companies simply agree not to pollute?

    Or do you simply have no opinion on this?

    In your mind all companies *must* pollute something in order to make a...

  • RE: The Cult of Mediocrity

    Lynn Pettis (6/26/2012)


    sturner (6/26/2012)


    "Too bad our government can't collect royalties off patents used to develop commercial products when government monies (taxpayer dollars) paid for it to begin with."

    If the royalties...

  • RE: The Cult of Mediocrity

    "Too bad our government can't collect royalties off patents used to develop commercial products when government monies (taxpayer dollars) paid for it to begin with."

    If the royalties they collected went...

  • RE: The Cult of Mediocrity

    "I can agree with you on that. For instance, having a clean environment is typically not a business goal, and thus you get the expected results. Theres just no profit...

  • RE: The Cult of Mediocrity

    patrickmcginnis59 (6/26/2012)


    sturner (6/26/2012)


    One other thing about the three entrepreneurs you cited: they all achieved their success without a dime of government stimulus (i.e taxpayers money).

    Counterpoint: the Apollo space program.

    Its not...

  • RE: SQL Job Schedule Question

    Have the daily job check the day of the month before it starts. If 'today' is the the last Thursday of the month just exit the procedure.

  • RE: The Cult of Mediocrity

    One other thing about the three entrepreneurs you cited: they all achieved their success without a dime of government stimulus (i.e taxpayers money).

    The Wright Brothers had a competitor in their...

  • RE: We Need to Learn Encryption

    Jeff Moden (6/14/2012)


    One of the biggest problems I've found is just how high the priv levels are for application logins. Like it or not, applications shouldn't have more than...

  • RE: After X Years

    Very well stated.

    I would go a step further and say that it would be really nice if higher level management understood and practiced this philosophy.

  • RE: Is Oracle DBA is nore harder than SQL DBA

    Maybe Oracle DBA's are not as competent as SQL server DBA's and have to struggle harder just to do their job.

  • RE: Issue with datatypes

    I assume what you mean is that you have some code that diddles with the destination table directly and would break if you changed the data type of a column?...

  • RE: Issue with datatypes

    Unless you match the data types up between the source and destination tables there is always the potential for conversion issues.

    I don't understand why it would break anything to change...

  • RE: Indexing... Considerations for high (but predictable) INS/DEL activity.

    ScottPletcher (6/8/2012)


    Might not be a good idea if inserts are expected while also doing the deletes.

    Perhaps, if you really normally do INSERTs that would violate the constraint. Hopefully that's...

  • RE: massive delete

    No, not really. The number of rows in each batch is really determined on two things:

    1) possible lock escalation which will reduce concurrency

    2) size limitations on the transaction log...

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