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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    BLOB EATER (11/24/2016)


    GilaMonster (11/24/2016)


    Brandie Tarvin (11/24/2016)


    Much prefer chocolate or herbal tea (decaf).

    The office kitchen also caters to stranger tastes, with 3 types of tea (two black tea variants and rooibos),...

    Thomas Rushton
    blog: https://thelonedba.wordpress.com

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Luis Cazares (11/23/2016)


    robert.sterbal 56890 (11/23/2016)


    What is on your menu for Thanksgiving?

    Hopefully, some football :hehe:

    ...and a new kitchen? Although I suspect you might have left it a bit late to...

    Thomas Rushton
    blog: https://thelonedba.wordpress.com

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Steve Jones - SSC Editor (11/23/2016)


    Forum Update: Scheduled to begin UAT testing tomorrow (Nov 24). Some of you will likely be notified.

    Hurrah! If you're seeking volunteers, I'm up for...

    Thomas Rushton
    blog: https://thelonedba.wordpress.com

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Grant Fritchey (11/18/2016)


    For the second time this year, I successfully got a Linux VM running with SQL Server on it. Last time I just did the install & walked away....

    Thomas Rushton
    blog: https://thelonedba.wordpress.com

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Luis Cazares (11/17/2016)


    Hugo Kornelis (11/17/2016)


    Eirikur Eiriksson (11/17/2016)


    Brandie Tarvin (11/17/2016)


    Beatrix Kiddo (11/17/2016)


    It's in the link there.

    CREATE OR ALTER (Yes, we heard you !!!) – New CREATE OR ALTER support makes it...

    Thomas Rushton
    blog: https://thelonedba.wordpress.com

  • RE: use microsoft updates

    "Can someone please reply to this topic" - give us a chance, we're all trying to hold down day jobs here... we're volunteers, not paid staff.

    From the SQL Server...

    Thomas Rushton
    blog: https://thelonedba.wordpress.com

  • RE: NEWBIE TO THE DBA LIFE

    Welcome to the party, indeed. 🙂

    A couple of other suggestions.

    There's a 6 month DBA training by email thing from Brent Ozar (one email a week, every week)....

    Thomas Rushton
    blog: https://thelonedba.wordpress.com

  • RE: SSD - which drives for best performance

    Rather depends on the usage / query pattern for the server.

    I would probably not put the OS & SQL binaries on SSD.

    If TempDB is going to be heavily used, then...

    Thomas Rushton
    blog: https://thelonedba.wordpress.com

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    GilaMonster (11/14/2016)


    Jeff Moden (11/13/2016)


    GilaMonster (11/13/2016)


    Ed Wagner (11/12/2016)


    I just hid a bunch

    How???

    I'm sick of just reporting them and having the spam hang around for hours afterwards

    Ask Steve to give you the...

    Thomas Rushton
    blog: https://thelonedba.wordpress.com

  • RE: Series of numbers with required pair of Digits - SQL

    Do the six matching digits have to be together? ie must the string be of the form xxxxxxy / yxxxxxx or can it be xxyxxxx?

    Thomas Rushton
    blog: https://thelonedba.wordpress.com

  • RE: Deployment Solutions that include Data?

    There's a handy blog post from Redgate on putting all that lot together - https://www.simple-talk.com/blogs/database-continuous-integration-with-sql-ci-and-jenkins

    Thomas Rushton
    blog: https://thelonedba.wordpress.com

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Sergiy (11/9/2016)


    Jeff Moden (11/6/2016)


    Luis Cazares (11/2/2016)


    I'm not looking for a job, but I take a look at offers from LinkedIn every now and then just to see what's being offered/requested.

    That...

    Thomas Rushton
    blog: https://thelonedba.wordpress.com

  • RE: Windows 2016 Domainless Cluster

    I tried setting this up locally, and had to use fixed IP addresses and records in the hosts file, which seemed a particularly unpleasant hack. See also Klaus Aschenbrenner's...

    Thomas Rushton
    blog: https://thelonedba.wordpress.com

  • RE: Check my backup knowledge?

    See also https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/2001026 - a MS Fast-publish article about backup space.

    See also TF 3042 - https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms188396.aspx which doesn't do the pre-allocation of space when creating a compressed backup. Might...

    Thomas Rushton
    blog: https://thelonedba.wordpress.com

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Wryan138 (10/30/2016)


    So in lieu of some marvelous SQL wizardry, I'm just trying to help out a little.

    Wayne

    Welcome aboard. I must admit, I do use your posts as a tool...

    Thomas Rushton
    blog: https://thelonedba.wordpress.com

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