I did a brief stint at UHaul in Phoenix in the early '80s, they had a 370 (IIRC) that they installed a crank on that had two arrow pointing Faster...

I would love to have someone to mentor. I enjoy teaching...

I see a fundamental problem here, and that is the size of the organization. I've never worked in a large enough shop to have more than one or two...

But.... that makes sense! We can't have none of that 'round here'! Perhaps you'll then be wanting a good data dictionary so that you could define elements in...

Vague recollection of Data Dude, I'd never heard of SSDT and will check it out. I really need to work with source control, and if DT integrates it well...

As you age, employability depends a lot on where you live and willingness to relocate. I lived in Phoenix for most of my career and was mostly well-employed, starting...

Jeff Moden (3/25/2015)

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Shifting gears a bit and speaking from experience way back when I was in PC support a million or so years ago... its a really bad idea to...

PHYData DBA (3/26/2015)

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Wayne West (3/26/2015)

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It'll be interesting. Right now the database, at about a third its population, isn't even 10 meg....

PHYData DBA (3/26/2015)

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Wow.... where to begin... so many things...

The biggest one is this. The only solution in the cloud for what you are discussing is a cloud database solution....

PHYData DBA (3/26/2015)

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Wayne West (3/26/2015)

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How do you argue that you want as many spindles as possible to separate the DB, Log, and TempDB from each other to maximize performance...

PHYData DBA (3/26/2015)

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Wayne West (3/25/2015)

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I'm confused. How is changing the indexes supposed to resolve an issue with an increase in table space?

And man, you have my sympathy! Oracle...

ChrisM@Work (3/26/2015)

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I'm British and I don't use it either 🙂

Whilst, betwixt and...

Jeff Moden (3/25/2015)

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Wayne West (3/25/2015)

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PHYData DBA (3/24/2015)

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... Also they seem to see this as a "Magic Bullet" to resolve not a performance issue, but and issue with increase in Table...

PHYData DBA (3/24/2015)

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... Also they seem to see this as a "Magic Bullet" to resolve not a performance issue, but and issue with increase in Table space.

This is the data...

Jeff Moden (3/25/2015)

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To be honest, I didn't believe there was such interest in a "comments" article. I thought there'd be an overwhelming banter as to me living in a...