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Brandie Tarvin SSC Guru Points: 173056 More actions · Answer 1

For my next SQL Saturdays blog post, I'm coming up with a list of acronyms & definitions for accidental / rookie DBAs.

Anyone have any suggestions for me to add?

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Koen Verbeeck SSC Guru Points: 259105 More actions · Answer 2

All the SSxS (SSIS, SSAS, SSRS, SSMS).

SSDT and BIDS.

CDC (change data capture)

sa

dbo

mdf

ndf

ldf

These are the first that pop into my head.

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Dwain Camps SSC Guru Points: 86948 More actions · Answer 3

Brandie Tarvin (11/6/2012)
For my next SQL Saturdays blog post, I'm coming up with a list of acronyms & definitions for accidental / rookie DBAs.
Anyone have any suggestions for me to add?

How about:

PITA

CYA

WTF

OMG

I don't know why those were the first to pop into my head. :w00t:

My mantra: No loops! No CURSORs! No RBAR! Hoo-uh![/I]
My thought question: Have you ever been told that your query runs too fast?

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INDEXing a poor-performing query is like putting sugar on cat food. Yeah, it probably tastes better but are you sure you want to eat it?
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Jan Van der Eecken SSCrazy Eights Points: 9029 More actions · Answer 4

RBAR

CTE

rCTE

Edit: Added two more.

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george sibbald SSC Guru Points: 104210 More actions · Answer 5

Brandie Tarvin (11/6/2012)
For my next SQL Saturdays blog post, I'm coming up with a list of acronyms & definitions for accidental / rookie DBAs.
Anyone have any suggestions for me to add?

RTFM

seriously.........

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Koen Verbeeck SSC Guru Points: 259105 More actions · Answer 6

george sibbald (11/6/2012)
Brandie Tarvin (11/6/2012)
For my next SQL Saturdays blog post, I'm coming up with a list of acronyms & definitions for accidental / rookie DBAs.
Anyone have any suggestions for me to add?
RTFM
seriously.........

PEBCAK

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Matt Miller (4) SSC Guru Points: 124210 More actions · Answer 7

Brandie Tarvin (11/6/2012)
For my next SQL Saturdays blog post, I'm coming up with a list of acronyms & definitions for accidental / rookie DBAs.
Anyone have any suggestions for me to add?

ACID

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Your lack of planning does not constitute an emergency on my part...unless you're my manager...or a director and above...or a really loud-spoken end-user..All right - what was my emergency again?

Brandie Tarvin SSC Guru Points: 173056 More actions · Answer 8

Matt Miller (#4) (11/6/2012)
Brandie Tarvin (11/6/2012)
For my next SQL Saturdays blog post, I'm coming up with a list of acronyms & definitions for accidental / rookie DBAs.
Anyone have any suggestions for me to add?
ACID

Wow. I can't believe I forgot that one. Thanks, Matt.

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Stuart Davies SSCoach Points: 19505 More actions · Answer 9

Brandie Tarvin (11/6/2012)
Matt Miller (#4) (11/6/2012)
Brandie Tarvin (11/6/2012)
For my next SQL Saturdays blog post, I'm coming up with a list of acronyms & definitions for accidental / rookie DBAs.
Anyone have any suggestions for me to add?
ACID
Wow. I can't believe I forgot that one. Thanks, Matt.

BOL - your first port of call (theoretically)

edited due to dislaxik fongers

-------------------------------Posting Data Etiquette - Jeff Moden [/url]Smart way to ask a question
There are naive questions, tedious questions, ill-phrased questions, questions put after inadequate self-criticism. But every question is a cry to understand (the world). There is no such thing as a dumb question. ― Carl Sagan
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Stuart Davies SSCoach Points: 19505 More actions · Answer 10

Brandie Tarvin (11/6/2012)
For my next SQL Saturdays blog post, I'm coming up with a list of acronyms & definitions for accidental / rookie DBAs.
Anyone have any suggestions for me to add?

How about PICNIC as we used to use when I worked on a helpdesk - Problem In Chair - Not In Computer

-------------------------------Posting Data Etiquette - Jeff Moden [/url]Smart way to ask a question
There are naive questions, tedious questions, ill-phrased questions, questions put after inadequate self-criticism. But every question is a cry to understand (the world). There is no such thing as a dumb question. ― Carl Sagan
I would never join a club that would allow me as a member - Groucho Marx

George M Parker SSCertifiable Points: 5412 More actions · Answer 11

George M Parker

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November 6, 2012 at 9:20 am

#1556510

We referred to that as an ID 10 T error...

Sean Lange SSC Guru Points: 286590 More actions · Answer 12

George M Parker (11/6/2012)
We referred to that as an ID 10 T error...

Eye Dee Ten Tea????

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Sean Lange SSC Guru Points: 286590 More actions · Answer 13

ROFL. I drove past this bar the other day...honest it is called RBAR.

See the attached photo.

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Read the article at http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Best+Practices/61537/ for best practices on asking questions.

Need to split a string? Try Jeff Modens splitter http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Tally+Table/72993/.

Cross Tabs and Pivots, Part 1 – Converting Rows to Columns - http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/T-SQL/63681/
Cross Tabs and Pivots, Part 2 - Dynamic Cross Tabs - http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Crosstab/65048/
Understanding and Using APPLY (Part 1) - http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/APPLY/69953/
Understanding and Using APPLY (Part 2) - http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/APPLY/69954/

TomThomson SSC Guru Points: 104773 More actions · Answer 14

Brandie Tarvin (11/6/2012)
For my next SQL Saturdays blog post, I'm coming up with a list of acronyms & definitions for accidental / rookie DBAs.
Anyone have any suggestions for me to add?

GHU shouldn't be left out, even if included only to advise people not to use it in the wrong company.

Tom

Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1004329 More actions · Answer 15

Sean Lange (11/6/2012)
ROFL. I drove past this bar the other day...honest it is called RBAR.
See the attached photo.

Heh... truly kindred "spirits". 😛

--Jeff Moden

RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.

Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.

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How to post code problems
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