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  • RE: Too much information can be counter-productive

    That's one of those difficult challenges many people face when trying to communicate anything upwards. It can be with a simple email or a extensive plan to move everything to...

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    BL0B_EATER (1/29/2016)


    Have you guys during your careers ever thought about doing something else in life.. as opposed to IT / SQL Server / Coding etc etc?

    Always for me. I guess...

  • RE: SQL DBA new trend

    Things are surely changing to include more work under the DBA hat. Most people want you to take on as much as possible in order to save the business from...

  • RE: Crafting Your Resume

    I used to do short resumes, but when you work in the video game industry, most companies want you to list out every single game you worked on and what...

  • RE: Tracking Professional Athletes

    Market attribution in my field is similar to this. Tracking people across digital channels and devices anonymously of course. This is a vast amount of information at high velocities that...

  • RE: The Ongoing Costs of Building Software

    When I worked in the video game industry, we frequently had these conversations. This was mainly because the tools we needed were non-existent. The market was too small and very...

  • RE: The Advent of Code

    Kind of read my mind in the previous post I added on the other editorial.

    I use HackerRank.com for a number of languages I use. I really like it and have...

  • RE: 100 Hours

    Steve Jones - SSC Editor (1/11/2016)


    xsevensinzx (1/10/2016)


    I think 100 hours would surely put you beyond a complete newbie in something. The problem I faced when learning Python in the past...

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    SQLRNNR (1/9/2016)


    Steve Jones - SSC Editor (1/8/2016)


    Third place: http://db-engines.com/en/ranking

    A little salt lick with that.

    There are several million wordpress blogs that use mysql in that figure. I wonder how many of...

  • RE: Surface Book

    I absolutely love my Lenovo Ideapad Yoga 13 Ultrabook that I got 3 years ago. It very much reminded me of the air with the slim profile with the tablet/laptop...

  • RE: 100 Hours

    I think 100 hours would surely put you beyond a complete newbie in something. The problem I faced when learning Python in the past 3 years is retention of knowledge....

  • RE: DBA Tasks - To automate or use my own eyes

    Jeff Moden (12/21/2015)


    There are three things that I absolute don't believe in automating... a cocktail before and a cigarette after. 😀

    I don't get it. Whats the third thing? :hehe:

  • RE: How to do IN statement as a parameter

    Jeff Moden (12/20/2015)


    Eirikur Eiriksson (12/20/2015)


    Piling on, while the string splitting method works fine when working with small number of values the performance degrades very quickly when the number of values...

  • RE: Incremental Loading using SSIS

    Orlando Colamatteo (12/19/2015)


    RonKyle (12/19/2015)


    RonKyle - why won't you use stored procedures to do a final insert?

    I do use stored procedures for the final insert in the sense that there...

  • RE: Number of Databases per Instance

    butcherking13 (12/18/2015)


    I appreciate the responses as this subject recently came up and was curious to answers from anyone that would respond. I do realize there are a variety of reasons...

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