See my earlier post about becoming a Wall Mart greeter 😀

In all...

Hehe, ok I get it.

Yeah and those snow pictures are pretty!

Michael Earl (11/18/2008)

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Is it me, or are the posted questions getting worse these days?

I just read a post by someone apparently in charge of something who was asking how to...

GSquared (5/5/2009)

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Reviewing the code does make some sense. You might be able to make something more efficient.

But if the proc does what's needed, why not just use it as-is?...

RBarryYoung (5/5/2009)

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Rather than try to dismiss and invalidate other's opinions because their personal backgrounds and experiences might color their judgment, I think that we would all be better off to...

No offense to anyone with a CS degree but its probably going to be the case where most people who have a CS degree will say that its helpful to...

For me its simple. To be a good DBA you have to understand how SQL Server behaves. In order to do that you need to have experience in...

I've got the latest build from codeplex and am running sp2 with cumulative update 7 on most of my servers. All my servers are x64 windows 2003 and running...

I'd be interested to see if anyone found the resolution to this problem. I'm having it too.

Well the words "completely understand" in the previous post are a bit presumptuous. More like "acknowledge". I don't think anyone "completely understands" why a lot of these policies...

Interestingly enough, I've been around long enough on this to not have a "position" either way. I completely understand the seperation of duties issues and compliancy concerns. However...

I didn't mention temporary or permanant access in the post simply because I didn't want that to sway the responses toward one method or the other.

What I'm looking for is...

Interestingly enough, if you actually read the Operational Framework blueprint documents by Microsoft, the DBAs actually sit more in the "QA" area of the business.

Its the number of seconds for the part of the query before SQL Server decides to parallelize it.

In other words, if SQL Server's optimizer determines that a part...

Why can't you run a SQL profiler replay trace, capture it for a brief period of time and run the replay in a test environment?

If you're concerned about the Profiler...