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  • RE: Vardecimal

    Jacob Wilkins (5/10/2016)


    Wayne West (5/10/2016)


    I found it very interesting reading up on Vardecimal. The systems that I typically use rarely use decimal, much less a large number of such...

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  • RE: A Lifetime of Software

    The only certainty is that when it comes to predicting the future, there's no certainty. The current plan for my wife and me is that my wife has another...

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    [font="Arial"]Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves or we know where we can find information upon it. --Samuel Johnson[/font]

  • RE: Vardecimal

    I found it very interesting reading up on Vardecimal. The systems that I typically use rarely use decimal, much less a large number of such fields that could benefit...

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    [font="Arial"]Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves or we know where we can find information upon it. --Samuel Johnson[/font]

  • RE: Beginner Help

    VMs, as Lowell said, are an excellent tool for learning like this. Make one, patch it, install SQL, patch it, then copy the VM so you have a master...

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  • RE: More Unicode

    SQLRNNR (5/6/2016)


    Oy vey, I missed the choose 2 somehow. Oh well. Otherwise, it is a straight forward question and I must have missed all the commotion about it being wrong.

    I...

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  • RE: Moving a large number of databases from one server to another?

    xsevensinzx (5/6/2016)


    Being no one has mentioned it yet, if you do transfer, note the bandwidth usage if applicable. We had multiple lines and we dedicated a full line/circuit to the...

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    [font="Arial"]Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves or we know where we can find information upon it. --Samuel Johnson[/font]

  • RE: Does T-SQL have a means of iterating over the columns of a table?

    For my particular application, the audit is stored in its own database. I don't expect a lot of insert volume in my production DB, and both compress very well...

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  • RE: Moving a large number of databases from one server to another?

    johnwalker10 (5/3/2016)


    1.Right-click on Database -> select 'Tasks' -> select 'Generate Scripts'

    2.Select database objects. Click Next

    3.Click Advanced and scroll down to 'Types of Data to script' and choose 'Schema and Data'....

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  • RE: Does T-SQL have a means of iterating over the columns of a table?

    Good points. My biggest table has 66 columns (all the other active tables have a very small column count), but even when I was inserting 600 records through a...

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  • RE: Does T-SQL have a means of iterating over the columns of a table?

    Wow. 4 minutes for an update with an audit? I notice zero delay with Pop Rivett's audit trigger. The big problem with auditing through the front end...

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  • RE: What Does a DBA Do?

    (looks like the newsletter is delayed today)

    The key is calibrating the answer to the asker. Explaining what I do to my Mom is different than explaining it to my new...

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  • RE: Does T-SQL have a means of iterating over the columns of a table?

    I do my auditing via Pop Rivett's article on Simple-Talk. It records the before and after values of each field change, one value pair per record. I have...

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  • RE: @TrumpDBA!

    Yeah, I had a problem in the URL which I thought I'd fixed yesterday, turned out my fix was incomplete. It should now be good. That's what I...

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  • RE: Transfer large amounts of Data to an mdf

    Is this a one-shot import or something that will be recurring? Some people would argue that 150 columns is awfully wide and could benefit from normalization.

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    [font="Arial"]Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves or we know where we can find information upon it. --Samuel Johnson[/font]

  • RE: Backups Over Time

    Lynn Pettis (4/22/2016)


    Wayne West (4/22/2016)


    I have a number of files from 20+ years ago that I'd like to recover that were written in a long-gone word processor, Borland's Sprint. ...

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