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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Grant Fritchey (9/9/2016)

    GilaMonster (9/9/2016)

    Grant Fritchey (9/9/2016)

    BrainDonor (9/9/2016)

    I've been following that thread since it started - fascinating. I'll give him full marks for determination ("Tis but a scratch" type of determination),...

    September 9, 2016 at 4:50 am

    #1899998

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    djj (9/8/2016)

    rodjkidd (9/8/2016)

    I agree - just pleased I remembered that I was on a 2016 instance, test, no 2016 prod servers here, and I could do that.

    Rodders...

    Been looking at 2016,...

    September 8, 2016 at 5:24 am

    #1899750

  • RE: Tempdb high i/o but no memory pressure

    gary789 (9/5/2016)

    Hi again,

    I think i've just worked this out... its spills.

    I've not noticed in the past but on checking some execution plans there are spill warnings for tempdb.

    This points to...

    September 5, 2016 at 9:24 am

    #1899209

  • RE: query that occasionally hangs

    Given the lack of available information...

    "parameter sniffing".

    September 2, 2016 at 2:08 am

    #1898939

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Lynn Pettis (9/1/2016)

    And his forced vacation from SSC did nothing to motivate White Horse from his berating ways. Who let him back in?

    "Forced vacation"... I can think of...

    September 2, 2016 at 2:02 am

    #1898936

  • RE: Datetime as INT

    Eric M Russell (8/31/2016)

    There are no dumb questions, only dumb decisions. Whoever designed the MSDB job activity tables didn't make the temporal columns as user friendly as they could be.

    Here...

    August 31, 2016 at 9:22 am

    #1898584

  • RE: Off-Site SQL Server Backups

    Have you enabled backup compression for your SQL Server backup jobs?

    August 31, 2016 at 8:56 am

    #1898575

  • RE: Today's Random Word!

    djj (8/30/2016)

    Ed Wagner (8/30/2016)

    TomThomson (8/30/2016)

    Kaye Cahs (8/29/2016)

    Hunt

    Down

    Town

    Our (Town - play by Wilder)

    House (in the middle of Our Street)

    August 30, 2016 at 6:33 am

    #1898283

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    WayneS (8/29/2016)

    It's just another skill that you need to practice. Go on every interview you can - even those where you already know that you don't want that job -...

    August 30, 2016 at 5:40 am

    #1898268

  • RE: Today's Random Word!

    Ed Wagner (8/19/2016)

    djj (8/19/2016)

    Grumpy DBA (8/19/2016)

    djj (8/19/2016)

    Ed Wagner (8/18/2016)

    Grumpy DBA (8/18/2016)

    TomThomson (8/18/2016)

    Elder

    Wand

    Dumbledore

    Magic

    Mike

    Sound

    Waves

    Goodbye

    August 19, 2016 at 5:46 am

    #1896331

  • RE: Is SQL Server Replication going away?

    GilaMonster (8/19/2016)

    pooyan_pdm (8/18/2016)

    Replication is a deprecated feature and Microsoft is not adding any thing new to it

    Citation needed.

    MSDN does not list replication as a deprecated feature. Please reference your source...

    August 19, 2016 at 5:22 am

    #1896324

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    ChrisM@Work (8/18/2016)

    Brandie Tarvin (8/18/2016)

    ThomasRushton (8/18/2016)

    Wow. For the first time in *mumble* years as a SQL guy, I've been asked "how do I get the date in SQL Server"

    erm... ...

    August 19, 2016 at 4:37 am

    #1896311

  • RE: Today's Random Word!

    Ed Wagner (8/18/2016)

    Hugo Kornelis (8/17/2016)

    Kaye Cahs (8/17/2016)

    Ed Wagner (8/17/2016)

    whereisSQL? (8/17/2016)

    Revenant (8/17/2016)

    Manic Star (8/17/2016)

    HappyGeek (8/17/2016)

    Ed Wagner (8/17/2016)

    djj (8/17/2016)

    Kaye Cahs (8/16/2016)

    Luis Cazares (8/16/2016)

    whereisSQL? (8/16/2016)

    Ed Wagner (8/16/2016)

    Ray K (8/16/2016)

    Ed Wagner (8/16/2016)

    whereisSQL? (8/16/2016)

    HappyGeek (8/16/2016)

    Grumpy...

    August 18, 2016 at 6:34 am

    #1896129

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Wow. For the first time in *mumble* years as a SQL guy, I've been asked "how do I get the date in SQL Server"

    erm... SELECT GETDATE()

    Thanks Jeff! ...

    August 18, 2016 at 2:18 am

    #1896087

  • RE: Today's Random Word!

    whereisSQL? (8/16/2016)

    Grumpy DBA (8/16/2016)

    djj (8/16/2016)

    Rocket

    Richard

    Canada

    Dry

    August 16, 2016 at 9:11 am

    #1895687

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