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  • RE: Building Better Communication Skills

    jay-h (1/10/2011)


    ...Then there is the complexity of the instructions. My non-smartphone has a 150 page manual. Automobiles come with 500-600 page manuals (not that many years ago the owners manual...

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  • RE: Building Better Communication Skills

    david_wendelken (1/28/2011)


    I've lost track of how many times I've seen documentation like this:

    Step 1: Do blah...

    Step 2: Do blah...blah...

    ...

    Step N: Do blah...blah...blah...

    Important! Before doing step 1, ...

    That's a basic...

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  • RE: Building Better Communication Skills

    Gary Varga (12/8/2015)


    OCTom (1/10/2011)


    I doubt that Twitter improves writing skills. It seems to do the opposite. The nature of Twitter encourages shortcuts and abbreviations that may not aid communication.

    Over four...

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  • RE: A user DB restarting every hour? Any idea why?

    AutoClose and AutoShrink are relics from when developers had much more limited resources and were running SQL Server on their local box. These days, they are not considered just...

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  • RE: Rethinking Hiring

    One problem that's still on-going, though I think it's diminishing, is that some at the C-level have the perception that IT costs and is not a profit center. It's...

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  • RE: Fun with qualifiers

    At a SQL Saturday, I think it was Denver (might have been El Paso), I was introduced to the term RGE: Resume Generating Event. Yeah, I would be very...

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  • RE: how to reduce backup size

    If you go with an external drive, remember that you'll have to take the database offline or detach it in SSMS for SQL Server to properly close the database files...

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  • RE: Server Hacked

    I would go a bit beyond a reinstall of Windows and SQL Server, at the least do low-level formats of your hard drives and delete partitions. If possible, I...

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  • RE: 150 GB Backup (compressed) taking over 1 day

    I've seen 90% compression on databases before, I would not expect a number like that across all databases all the time. And as Bill Taleda said, don't compress if...

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  • RE: Reduce core on SQL Server 2005

    I called Microsoft to clarify this, Gail is absolutely right. At a previous job we did a server consolidation, so I ordered a single very beefy box with a...

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  • RE: 150 GB Backup (compressed) taking over 1 day

    There's lots of good advice already given that should help. I'd check some add'l things.

    1 - Are all the database backups all firing at the same time? If...

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  • RE: MS Access 2013 FE - #10054 'Connection Forcibly Closed by Remote Host' - SQL Server 2012

    Are you using one copy of the Access FE database? Since you're running across a WAN, you might try putting a copy of the FE on each local server...

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  • RE: 4 Queries Required Very Urgent

    djj (11/13/2015)Having actually studied engineering (before there were personal computers), I never took a theory class. I have often thought about taking one, but never get around to it.

    I...

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  • RE: 4 Queries Required Very Urgent

    I will say this, though: I think that's a pretty good basic test. Covers the fundamentals of creating and populating tables, relationships, and some moderately complex querying. We...

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  • RE: Question for All DBAs (What can I learn to enahnce my career?)

    I wouldn't suggest them for right now as they tend to dive in to more advanced concepts, but check out the Starways Series[/url] here at SSC. Also take a...

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