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  • RE: Guest Editorial: Do DBAs Need a Code of Ethics?

    Well said, Andy Warren.

    roger.plowman (2/5/2009)


    Everyone knows what ethical behavior is.

    If only.

    Ethics comes from an individual considering their moral position, and can be assisted but not defined by a "Code". ...

  • RE: Guest Editorial: Do DBAs Need a Code of Ethics?

    Richard Bradford (2/5/2009)


    So until the IT industry actually has a professional body with all the cumbersome overheads and membership dues all the talk about DBA ethics is interesting but unenforceable.

    In...

  • RE: Guest Editorial: Do DBAs Need a Code of Ethics?

    There may be a case for emphasising the DBA aspects, but this is really a subtopic of professionalism, and how you go about establishing it. University courses are covering...

  • RE: Open Source Pay

    Alan Vogan (1/16/2009)


    Maybe we should be looking at this from the point of establishing and legitimizing IT as an actual profession in our society, like teachers, doctors and engineers.

    This...

  • RE: Open Source Pay

    kwitzell (1/16/2009)


    it was very disconcerting this past year to see not only our salaries, but we were ALL identified by name in the local newspaper. Not sure why it was...

  • RE: Open Source Pay

    Jack Corbett (1/16/2009)


    I'm not a big union fan either, because the union shops I've seen just protected incompetence and that led to work falling to the lowest common denominator.

    This is...

  • RE: Open Source Pay

    I regard it as normal to know roughly what everyone at work is paid, but then I have spent most of my time in public sector jobs (UK), where the...

  • RE: Difference between Log shipping and DB mirroring

    From SQL2K BOL "Transaction Log Backups", I find advice not to recover the database to operational until all transaction logs have been applied...

    ... For example, a series of transaction log...

  • RE: Difference between Log shipping and DB mirroring

    Adi Cohn (12/16/2008)


    In log shipping the log is backed up. The log includes both open and close transactions. Each time that the log is being restored the server...

  • RE: How to configure SQL Server with AWE, PAE, /3GB

    VictorDBA (12/10/2008)


    -- My only concern is that I have 8GB on Ram sitting on that server and only 4GB is recognozed by the OS. Is there a way to bypass...

  • RE: .NET and SQL 2008

    I haven't moved up to SQL Server 2008 or VS2008, but VS2008 SP1 incorporates .NET 3.5 SP1.

    To determine the version(s) of .NET installed, see Microsoft Support.

    MSDN says that .NET...

  • RE: Barriers to Entry, Database Weekly (Oct 27 2008)

    The strength of SSC is the prevailing atmosphere of professionals helping professionals, and mostly talking shop. Personalities emerge, but are secondary to the collective purpose, so people rarely wind...

  • RE: how to inserto balnk value datetime column

    I also found that implicit CAST. You can define a default value of (0) for a datetime column and it enters the 'zero' datetime. You can insert a...

  • RE: Change SQL Time

    jjssilva (10/10/2008)


    I checked all the other servers including the Database server because they are all on the same Domain, this means these servers are synchronized.

    I cannot say anything about Active...

  • RE: Project Management Management

    project managment as a bureaucracy instead of a methodology

    Now there's a dissertation waiting to be written. Sounds like an anti-pattern.

    I agree. Maybe a "good PM" simply has the...

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