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  • RE: Help Others, Help Yourself

    Jeff Moden (1/20/2010)


    David Korb (1/20/2010)


    This is why the one-room schoolhouse is a superior model for education: the older kids solidify their knowledge as they pass it on to the younger.

    I...

  • RE: Help Others, Help Yourself

    "...when you spend time helping others, you also improve your own skills."

    To go off on a bit of a tangent:

    This is why the one-room schoolhouse is a superior model for...

  • RE: New terms - lets keep them real

    The K is there to prevent the soft C pronunciation and conform with the spelling of other words that end with the hard C ending: such as brick, flack, block,...

  • RE: Using @@Rowcount for storing multiple updates/insert counts

    "Initialization" only happens once by definition. You will always get a return from @@rowcount, so the variable will always reflect the most recent value.

  • RE: Be a Craftsman

    Those gatekeeper systems serve mainly to maintain legal monopolies for the benefit of the people already in the profession, with the secondary benefit of providing higher quality professionals.

    I'm not sure...

  • RE: Be a Craftsman

    I don't know about the beer but as for Craftsman tools I believe most professionals... are going to have brands like:

    Klein! My lineman's pliers, dikes, strippers, and screwdrivers were always...

  • RE: Be a Craftsman

    What was the gist of it?

    You can't always choose what you work on (well maybe _you_ can). 🙂

    A DBA residency would have generalized rotations, different employers and RDBMS. If you...

  • RE: Be a Craftsman

    I spent about 40 minutes crafting a reply, but when I hit "Preview" received a "The session identity provided has expired or could not be found." message. All the work...

  • RE: Be a Craftsman

    A three year residency could be specialized in things like web development, graphics, databases, or networks. And the more challenging sub-specialties could have a fellowship after the residency.

    So, to be...

  • RE: Be a Craftsman

    I'm with Steve and Jeff, but I would frame it differently. I think that computing is still in its infancy and the path towards craftsmanship, or professionalization, is a matter...

  • RE: Store Procedure Help

    First, save off a distinct set of users in a temp table, then insert where they do not already exist. This is the set-based approach. No need to use loops...

  • RE: Programming Training

    I would recommend taking at least an intro level database theory course. There's a lot of bad architecture out there because people can't be bothered to learn about E.F. Codd's...

  • RE: Comparing 2 tables in MS SQL 2005

    This is such a common problem, you should roll your own!

    Note: my original post contained sucky code. I've repaired it and placed it within a table valued function which makes...

  • RE: Disabled index mystery

    GSquared (1/15/2009)


    The default trace should have the command in it that is doing the disabling. That should give you the source.

    We finally discovered the source. Nope, there is no...

  • RE: Disabled index mystery

    The index is being re-created every morning after the data load. It exists the rest of the day, but at some point, early on, it's being disabled.

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