Tom Garth

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RE: Working Under Pressure

A nice article and some good stories here, too.
On the fatigue factor. I've been there too many times to count, and made my share of big boo-boos as well.
I have...
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August 26, 2008 at 8:44 am

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RE: Solid State Replacements - Database Weekly (August, 18, 2008)

I don't know much about SSD comparisons to HDs, but i would guess the SEEK times would be 1 of their strong suits. Even so, a smaller look up table...
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August 19, 2008 at 12:58 pm

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RE: Short cut key

So much anticipation! Am I the only one who thought that something special might happen today?
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August 15, 2008 at 8:09 am

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RE: SQL Profanities

GSquared - You are right about not leaving loose ends. I was referring to scripts that were on their way to being procs. I use the GOTOs to skip already...
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August 12, 2008 at 8:35 am

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RE: SQL Profanities

In defense of GOTO.
While not suitable to be published in production, it's a handy little statement to have when working with piecemeal assembly of large blocks of code.
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August 12, 2008 at 8:16 am

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RE: VarChar(max)?!?

Even though the answer was obvious, and even though I had QA open at the time, I went ahead and "Took the Bait". What's 1 lousy point.
Good QotD. Learnt sumpin.
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August 11, 2008 at 2:40 pm

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RE: Short cut key

bitbucket (7/15/2008)
Hari.Sharma
Just select a table name and press Alt+F1 and see the result...
Using SSMS (SQL Express) pressed f8 to bring up object explorer. Selected a database (Northwind), then...
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July 15, 2008 at 10:03 am

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RE: Query regarding SSRS report server

Manish Sinha (7/12/2008)
I want to make my machine report server.Can I do this only when I have windows server on my machine.
If you want your machine to be a Report...
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July 15, 2008 at 9:50 am

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RE: Short cut key

jim.powers (7/15/2008)
The documentation linked does not have an ALT+F1 combination listed. However, after trying it out as the feedback suggests, I can get it to work. What is the correct...
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July 15, 2008 at 9:30 am

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RE: TABLESAMPLE

SanjayAttray (7/1/2008)
...does any body uses this in day to day programming? If no, what's the actual use of this function -- "tablesample system".
I would like to know that too.
One...
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July 1, 2008 at 3:50 pm

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RE: The T-SQL Quiz

Jeff Moden (6/27/2008)
Tom Garth (6/27/2008)
There are some assumptions in what I'm about to say.
That's a heck of a good explanation, Tom...
To put it in laymen's terms, there are two ways...
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June 27, 2008 at 12:31 pm

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RE: The T-SQL Quiz

zxn001 (6/27/2008)
I didnt know SQL could do that.
And you made me a believer, a very confused one, but still believing.
So now I'm really curious, WHY does the set loop work...
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June 27, 2008 at 12:20 pm

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RE: Who is "the IT guy?"

But we may remain "magic workers" to much of the public if we continue to mature and do even better at making the computer "disappear" and just be a tool...
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June 27, 2008 at 10:17 am

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RE: Who is "the IT guy?"

I've generally gone by Programmer or Developer. Developer leads some to believe that I build shopping malls or homes, so I might make it Software Developer, but Programmer is just...
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June 26, 2008 at 10:51 am

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RE: Cloning

"Creating a clone is not legal"
I could be wrong, but I took that to be a tongue-in-cheek reference to our current political policies.
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June 25, 2008 at 8:15 am

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