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Jeff Moden (7/6/2015)
... the MVP discussion emails (not available to the general public ...
I always suspected that you were part of a secret cabal, Jeff. :hehe:
October 6, 2015 at 11:19 am
bazmunro (10/3/2015)
...I converted a large thick Windows Dataflex app from flat file Btrieve to SQL, and chose MS's flavour...
Oh, man, I feel your pain! I spent nine years in...
October 5, 2015 at 2:00 pm
In the mid '90s I wrote a blockwatch grant tracking system in Access, I left that org in 2001. Two years ago I went to have lunch with my...
October 2, 2015 at 10:26 am
You might want to check out Plan Explorer, there's a free edition: https://www.sqlsentry.com/products/plan-explorer/sql-server-query-view.
Also, I'd recommend Grant Fritchey's book on execution plans, available for free as a PDF from Redgate: https://www.red-gate.com/community/books/sql-server-execution-plans-ed-2....
October 1, 2015 at 1:05 pm
I attended Kevin Boles' Tune Like A Guru session at the El Paso SQL Saturday recently and he said the most important thing to do when you have a serious...
October 1, 2015 at 10:54 am
Have you experimented with the MERGE statement? I've never used it, but it seems to me that (A) the WHEN MATCHED could be used to set a value to...
October 1, 2015 at 10:42 am
I use a trigger that I modified from Pop Rivett's column (https://www.simple-talk.com/content/article.aspx?article=301#forum from 2006. Put the trigger on any table to be audited and you get one record per...
September 29, 2015 at 4:33 pm
Yay! Attending the DLM workshop before the Denver SQL Saturday produced actionable knowledge! (even if I have no idea when I'll be able to implement VCS in my shop)
September 29, 2015 at 3:59 pm
ChrisM@Work (9/24/2015)
Why are you using NVARCHAR for an email address?
We now have Unicode URLs, so why not Unicode characters for email addresses. You can Google Unicode Email and there's...
September 29, 2015 at 8:54 am
Sean Lange (9/17/2015)
... I would rather peel M&Ms in the desert than work with this system.
Sounds like the ERP system used by a previous employer. I told my friends...
September 25, 2015 at 10:41 am
Lynn Pettis (9/16/2015)
Just as long as people use the semicolon (;) as a statement terminator not a begininator. That is my pet peeve.
I saw one argument to using it...
September 16, 2015 at 10:05 am
"And they didn't believe us when we said that we were serious about only three password attempts."
September 16, 2015 at 8:13 am
erichansen1836 (9/15/2015)
... In this day and age, rarely do systems last longer than a couple years anyway.
I had an interesting experience about a year ago. I worked for an...
September 15, 2015 at 12:00 pm
Rod at work (9/15/2015)
Wayne West (9/14/2015)
September 15, 2015 at 9:16 am
I'll be honest: I currently do not use a version of VCS. I did back in the Dos days using BRIEF, someone came out with a source control package...
September 14, 2015 at 1:26 pm
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