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  • RE: Tracking Professional Athletes

    Eric M Russell (1/14/2016)


    I'm not convinced that all the sacrifices were making in terms of privacy are even making us safer. These occasional domestic terrorists who get caught during the...

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  • RE: Mitigating STIGs

    The code he's using is filtering the object type, there's 26 different objects. BOL for SQL 2014 shows the types as:

    AF = Aggregate function (CLR)

    C = CHECK constraint

    D =...

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  • RE: Mitigating STIGs

    I don't know if you might find this useful, but a long time ago I wrote some code for SQL Server 2000 for a similar purpose. It's probably overkill,...

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  • RE: When a Service Pack or Cumulative Update Install Fails by “Evaporating"

    Thanks for the info. Definitely good to know and worth bookmarking what you went through just in case....

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  • RE: Happy New Year 2016

    Lynn Pettis (1/7/2016)


    I have one for you. Years ago as a computer operator work at Data General, my supervisor ordered rehabilitated 2400' 9 track magnetic tapes. He was...

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  • RE: Maintaince Jobs vs sql agent scripts

    My problem with maintenance plans is the lack of reporting. I'm old school: I started writing maintenance scripts with the first version of SQL Server and I've continued the...

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  • RE: Rulebreaking Developers

    ... When we have better solutions, or we can correct deficiencies, management doesn't want to spend the time or effort to do so. ...

    Greed, pure and simple. The drive...

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  • RE: The Most Common Query Blunders...

    TheSQLGuru (12/25/2015)


    Jason A. Long (12/25/2015)


    TheSQLGuru (12/25/2015)


    How about I do a remote presentation of my Common TSQL Mistakes session? I have presented it somewhere around 100 times now for companies, User...

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  • RE: Happy New Year 2016

    Thank you, J! Yep, PEBKAC strikes again.

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  • RE: Happy New Year 2016

    Steve, I'd like to see your code because I can't duplicate it. I ran the following:

    DECLARE @HashThis VARCHAR(20) = 'January 1, 2016';

    SELECT 'MD2' AS HashType, hashbytes('MD2',@HashThis) AS HashVal

    UNION

    SELECT 'MD4',...

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  • RE: Happy New Year 2016

    There's some gaps that have developed in my knowledge of T-SQL that I need to fill in. I'd like to work on that and also on re-learning VB as...

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  • RE: Salary vs contract rate?

    The last time I did a temp consulting gig in Phoenix, some 15 years ago, I was paid $120 an hour because when I left, the system continued to work...

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    [font="Arial"]Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves or we know where we can find information upon it. --Samuel Johnson[/font]

  • RE: Merry Christmas

    Steve, that's far too much free time on your hands!

    Here's hoping you had a great holiday. 🙂

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    [font="Arial"]Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves or we know where we can find information upon it. --Samuel Johnson[/font]

  • RE: Packaged-Application Database Nightmares - A Horror Story.

    j.peavey (12/22/2015)


    Please add to your bulletined list: All tables are six characters in length and use a cryptographic algorithm for the name.:-D

    I'd recommend double-ROT13 as the crypto algorithm for the...

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  • RE: SQL server slowdown by increasing processors?

    Yeah, if you're passing a query to an Oracle box, do you have any way of knowing if the delay is there? Totally different situation than a SQL Server...

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