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It would not be a bad idea to have some of these questions thought out before your next interview! I was discussing this with my wife a couple of...
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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]
August 20, 2007 at 3:44 pm
It's the only way to be sure that the business rules will be enforced -- put it all in the database. Take a clue-by-four upside the head of anyone...
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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]
August 20, 2007 at 2:55 pm
Oh, man! That guy is frightening! If that's where the industry is leading, I'm getting back into photography and letting my wife support me! ![]()
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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]
August 20, 2007 at 2:52 pm
Juan, you can pick up the SQL Server 2005 Developer Edition for around $50(US) or less, and it's not time-expiring, so it lasts forever (but you can't use it for...
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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]
August 20, 2007 at 2:48 pm
This was a major part of my last good SQL Server job. I was formatting data then spitting out a file for uploading to a mainframe. The first...
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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]
August 20, 2007 at 2:39 pm
I took a risk on my laptop and got burned. I was among the legion running as admin, which is a mistake in and of itself. But 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]
August 20, 2007 at 11:52 am
Yeah, I'm aware of 2000 going out of support. The box that I'm migrating from is kinda shaky, so the migration is going to happen. Plus, it'll free...
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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]
August 20, 2007 at 8:32 am
I don't trust anyone with my backups. Period. Full stop. They were using a backup agent when I arrived (they had not had a DBA prior to...
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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]
August 17, 2007 at 10:41 am
Your safest way would be to restore master & msdb first. msdb has all of your jobs and DTS packages, it would be easy to forget restoring it once...
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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]
August 17, 2007 at 10:25 am
All that bonding does is it shows that in the past you appeared to be a trustworthy person. As the investment adverts say, "past performance is no indicator of...
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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]
August 10, 2007 at 9:21 am
Couldn't a lot of this could be solved using the crypto features in 2005? Encrypt the salary column, the SSN (assuming it's not your PK), the bank account or...
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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]
August 10, 2007 at 8:53 am
This is kind of trivial, but....
If you change your date fields to smalldatetime, you save 8 bytes per record (4 bytes per storage value for smalldatetime vs 8 bytes per...
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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]
August 9, 2007 at 10:59 am
I'd kinda like to see your personal standards document. Sounds like an article in the making... ![]()
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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]
August 9, 2007 at 10:08 am
Two ways come to mind immediately. The first would be to script out the database and re-run the script. The second would be to use the sp_MSforeachtable to...
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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]
August 9, 2007 at 9:34 am
Always good to review the basics. I noticed that the .\ usage in figure 7 was no different than if I click the ... button without it. Am...
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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]
August 3, 2007 at 11:18 am
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