Freddie-304292 (8/4/2011)

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The form of government created by the founders of the United States and defined by its Constitution is a Representative Republic, not a Democracy. The founders were all...

Freddie-304292 (8/4/2011)

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sturner (8/4/2011)

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Freddie-304292 (8/4/2011)

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Do you support an individuals right to elect not to participate in the so called "universal health care"? If you do not than you force everyone to...

Freddie-304292 (8/4/2011)

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Do you support an individuals right to elect not to participate in the so called "universal health care"? If you do not than you force everyone to conform to...

Freddie-304292 (8/4/2011)

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This micro-management of people's lives is illustrative of the socialist (aka liberal) mindset. They are just not happy unless they are monitoring and/or controlling every single decision a person...

Freddie-304292 (8/4/2011)

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At least right now, I can decide for myself (instead of the government making the decisions for me) where I want to spend my money. ...

Gosh, so many loners in the software/DBA world... no wonder some people get the idea we are nerds lol.

I do enjoy some time alone for contemplation but rarely at...

In my experience scaling up to many magnitudes is never linear because there are too many different resources involved that don't scale the same way.

Good luck.

The hash is a true binary value, you'll have to convert it into hex or base64 encoded characters if you want to print it.

I typically use sys.fn_varbintohexsubstring() but you can...

The best way is to perform some actual tests. Create as similar an environment that you can, create the database objects and populate them with test data.

You may also...

TravisDBA (7/27/2011)

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cengland0 (7/27/2011)

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GSquared (7/26/2011)

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Most company owners/managers won't get that "English" is actually a set of just barely recognizable languages, not just one. Easiest way to explain it to them...

"If the program SQL Server comes up with (some of which you can see in the graphical or XML show plan output) is not optimal, ensure you have good estimates...

Might be a nice option when creating a table but I would not like it to be there whether it was needed/wanted or not.

Personally, I don't see why you can't...

Scalability is an architectural and/or a design issue. There is nothing inherent in SQL Server that makes it non-scalable... in fact, in my experience it is a very flexible and...

just drop the subscriptions and start over. You have missed a step somewhere or selected an option that bypassed the snapshot needed for initialization.

10 jobs on 10 different schedules, or on the same schedule execute asynchronously.

If you are referring to a scenario where 10 different "jobs" are implemented as 10 separate steps...