IceDread (10/28/2008)

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... Btw, "A community of more than 922,000 database professionals and growing", are we really that many? I wonder how that figure of 922k got there, how many old...

Apparently Microsoft announced Azure, their Cloud...

For me, Landover Baptist Church is good enough for me -- http://www.landoverbaptist.org.

(tongue planted firmly in cheek -- it's masterfully-written spoof of religious extremism in the guise of a religious community...

Peter Schott (10/28/2008)

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... Related to the election - I encourage those in the USA who are legally able to vote to do so, but please be well informed when exercising...

Backups (including system databases), DBCCs, and log review. Most of my systems back up locally and then again to a SAN, so I automatically have the backup in two...

David Reed (10/23/2008)

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Wayne West (10/23/2008)

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Not every company does BI or needs real-time analytics. For those that do, then maybe this will represent a real value. But I don't...

I think I'm seeing a lot of smoke and hype. OLTP and BI, be it real time or nightly batched, are related but different. I've been doing database...

I teach readability by stressing that you're writing code for the person who follows you. It jolts their perception a bit to think that 'this previous project would have...

Thanks for the reply, Tim. I'd have to research the schema, off-hand I cannot say that all the tables have PKs, clustered or otherwise. I have two specific...

Thanks for the article, Ranga, very useful. I look forward to getting our ERP system into 2005 or 2008 as I know they're not doing a good job indexing,...

Excellent article, Thom! I love working with system tables, they hold so much cool information and really show how SQL Server is a meta-data system. Conveniently, I think...

Union is such a cool command, I've used it for years and got to introduce our other developers to it early this year. Most recently I used it to...

I would like to use an indexed view in our ERP system (SS 2000 Enterprise) but I'm paranoid because it's a canned system and we don't have the source, I'm...

I use the Subscribe button frequently, it's a matter of organization. Usually if I Briefcase an article, I also want to subscribe to it, but I don't always want...

Interesting article, David, thanks for writing it, I'm going to need to devote some time to studying and playing with the code. I've never had to script out updates...