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  • RE: Time to Retire

    Luis Cazares (2/17/2014)


    It's easy to take family members off of WinXP. Not so easy for companies that need lots of licenses and testing time to make sure nothing is going...

  • RE: Time to Retire

    Getting family members off of XP will be difficult. Also difficult is getting businesses off of XP.

    For the former, I tend to recommend Linux, if nothing else for the...

  • RE: VMs for Development

    Production and test VM's use VMWare ESXi hypervisor (legally free for use as long as you don't do certain things, one example being rent out entire guests) on a whitebox;...

  • RE: Execute large number of insert statements

    A few thousand rows? Just use the INSERT statements.

    A hundred thousand rows? BCP or BULK INSERT - that many INSERT statements at once often hit memory issues (even...

  • RE: Query from a list in an excel file

    Welsh Corgi (2/12/2014)


    Nadrek (2/12/2014)


    Welsh Corgi (2/12/2014)


    IMHO, there is nothing wrong with using or at least being familiar with the Import/Export Wizard.

    Upgrading hundreds of import/export packages to a new version of...

  • RE: Query from a list in an excel file

    Welsh Corgi (2/12/2014)


    IMHO, there is nothing wrong with using or at least being familiar with the Import/Export Wizard.

    Upgrading hundreds of import/export packages to a new version of SQL Server?

  • RE: Replace a reserved keyword

    SQLRNNR (2/11/2014)


    Ed Wagner (2/11/2014)


    You are accepting string parameters and then building a SQL command and executing it. That is the problem.

    As an example, what if I were to look...

  • RE: Strange Backup Failure. sysdatabases Related ?

    Very strange, if the next DIFFs worked fine without a FULL in between the failure and the success.

    The closest I've seen to this is

    "Error 952: Database is in 'transition' state"

    when...

  • RE: Query from a list in an excel file

    Bah; no need for a wizard for a few hundred rows on a one-off import when a simple EXCEL formula creates your INSERT statements for you.

    =CONCATENATE("INSERT INTO #YourTable VALUES ('",A1,"')")

    Grab...

  • RE: SQL Server Encryption

    Bottom line: If you actually want security, you need to store the encryption keys on something you own, not something the client owns. Expect to spend a lot of...

  • RE: Performance Tuning Through Panic

    The first key to performance tuning: Don't panic.

    The second key, as mentioned in the article, is to have enough knowledge to be able to do very fast root cause determination...

  • RE: system databases moving

    GilaMonster (1/14/2014)


    Moving TempDB is easy. The other three, not so much.

    MSDB and Model are fairly easy, too.

    Master's where you have to pull out the fun startup parameters.

  • RE: Top Talent Leaves

    Please don't conflate changing employers with changing jobs, roles, responsibilities, or tasks.

    I spent awhile working at a large company where it was quite normal for people who do...

  • RE: SQL Jobs

    EDIT: As the OP didn't mention any dependency, I agree with the other posters - create two jobs if the steps are independent of each other.

    One option (if and only...

  • RE: Advice Please - To Specialize or not to Specialize That is the Question

    I consider the ideal to be a broad general base with one or more deeper specializations; akin to an ocean floor with some (Marianas) trenches.

    Some problems need that deep, specialized...

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