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  • RE: SQL Coding Horrors

    Oh yes :-D. There's exactly 217 uses of NOLOCK in that query. I have no idea why. Well, maybe... Considering how long this thing ran, and...

  • RE: Largest MS SQL Server Databases

    Personally, I'm working with 2,659 databases, which add up to about 700GB of data altogether.

    And yes, this is a horrible, horrible design by a vendor :-D. Really, all of...

  • RE: New DBA + Bankruptcy = Career Doom?..

    SQL Guy 1 (2/12/2014)


    It is very strange to hear that a DBA applies for bunkropcy. We are highly paid professionals who receive much more than the average value in...

  • RE: Top Talent Leaves

    Hm. Personally, I left my last job after a year and a half; things started out rather good, but after the first year, management became rather frustrating to deal...

  • RE: Software Patents

    On a more ridiculous note...

    The word "candy" is now trademarked[/url]

    This is all sorts of absurd. The makers of the Candy Crush line of mobile phone games were granted a...

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Actually, I thought I faintly remembered reading something similar at some point; after doing some digging, it turns out it was (incorrectly) attributed to Brent Ozar's site in my head:

    Blog...

  • RE: Passing Wildcard parameters through Query

    sharonsql2013 (1/21/2014)


    Here is what I was looking for

    Select *

    from SomeTable

    where (table_id LIKE '%' + @ID+ '%' OR @ID = '*')

    Terribly sorry for the late reply; I left work shortly...

  • RE: Passing Wildcard parameters through Query

    sharonsql2013 (1/21/2014)


    Yes, I see that. But how can I also see all the values through wildcard.

    I mean I should be able to pass "*" and see all aswell

    Hm. If...

  • RE: Passing Wildcard parameters through Query

    For your wildcard search portion, you need to use LIKE instead of the = operator; so:

    Select FName,Lname from Customers

    where ID LIKE '%' + @ID+ '%'

    By using = instead of LIKE,...

  • RE: Testing the Results of RESTORE VERIFYONLY

    seatedElephant (1/14/2014)


    Hi,

    Thanks a lot for the detailed reply. I totally take your point that a full restore (with DBCC CHECKDB) would be the only way to be absolutely sure that...

  • RE: Issues with TempDB ever increasing

    Aha! With what Jeff mentioned, it seems that you may indeed be a victim of the aforementioned bug:

    Microsoft Fix Notes

    It seems that this problem was fixed in a Cumulative...

  • RE: Issues with TempDB ever increasing

    Hmm. A bit more information is necessary here. What's the size of tempdb when it's grown out quite a bit? From your settings, it looks like tempdb...

  • RE: Prohibit UNION queries?

    Sean Lange (1/10/2014)


    hisakimatama (1/10/2014)


    Sean Lange (1/10/2014)


    hisakimatama (1/10/2014)


    The database most definitely isn't safe and secure if queries like those are being injected in. As Gail and the others have said,...

  • RE: Prohibit UNION queries?

    Sean Lange (1/10/2014)


    hisakimatama (1/10/2014)


    The database most definitely isn't safe and secure if queries like those are being injected in. As Gail and the others have said, your code's open...

  • RE: Prohibit UNION queries?

    The database most definitely isn't safe and secure if queries like those are being injected in. As Gail and the others have said, your code's open for injection, and,...

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