pshore73 (1/26/2015)

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I know this reply is quite a bit of time after the post, however, where can I find documentation that native SQL backup followed by copy to media using...

Some stuff that I've seen:

--USA zip codes stored as integers

--USA social security numbers stored as integers

--Date/time stored as strings (those were A LOT of fun to deal with)

--When told that...

Jeff Moden (1/21/2015)

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Wayne West (1/21/2015)

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I hate to ask this, but is your canned system running an application server? At a prior job we had one that required no stored...

I hate to ask this, but is your canned system running an application server? At a prior job we had one that required no stored procedures in the database....

Andrew..Peterson (1/16/2015)

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Ah, yes, how true. Technology is just a tool, and end users just want it to work. Perhaps why so many users are switching to Mac's. (hint...

ShineBoy (1/18/2015)

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Yet another print and temp table guy.

Such a common thing to do I generally have an input parameter in the proc @debug bit = 0 and that...

Heating elements! Is THAT why I've been having problems applying hot fixes?!...

I had no backup problems with our 1.something TB ERP database as a single file backup until our network admin decided that We Must Use Microsoft Backup and I stopped...

ccd3000 (1/8/2015)

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The last place I worked we had implemented Microsoft's Office 365 cloud based solution. By the time I had departed a few months later, it was being referred to...

I've never been a fan of clouds, too many news stories like this one talking about outages: botched upgrades, misconfigurations, etc. At least this time Verizon is announcing it...

ShineBoy (1/7/2015)

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... As to the lack of planning around recovery: You know what I put it down to ? Those that aren't planning are either too lazy, just think...

Markus (12/29/2014)

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Years ago we had construction going on to update our UPS and power for our Data Center. One business day our entire Data Center went down. Come...

It's always interesting, starting out like that and learning new things. Access is a good tool and I use it a lot as my front-end to talk to SQL...

Yet Another DBA (1/7/2015)

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I was told that any idiot could install clustering by using google and this was 5 minutes before someone unplugged network cable to the san and corrupted...

Six years ago...