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  • RE: Who wants to be a SQL Server DBA?

    Posts: 1, huh? It's obviously a troll, but I'll bite.

    rhat (10/15/2007)


    DBCC commands are wild goose chases when a siimple restore of backup is what's needed and needed ASAP.

    Yes, let's...

  • RE: Who wants to be a SQL Server DBA?

    colin Leversuch-Roberts (10/15/2007)


    non clustered PK, I'd say 75% of candidates have got this wrong - .

    How about "Gee, I'm not sure. I don't see a good reason to...

  • RE: Who wants to be a SQL Server DBA?

    edu-dba -

    You specifically mentioned looking for experience. Sometimes, experience can be a problem.

    I have 25 years experience with the relational database lineage that MS SQL Server is...

  • RE: Oh Lawd, it''s the end of the world

    Relax.

    It's old news, for one thing, and it was very good news for of use who make a living at this instead of treating vendors like baseball...

  • RE: Hourly Rate?

    I shouldn't give this away - but be careful of charging too little.

    Years ago, when my spouse was building her business, she tried offering discounts to attract clients.

    Then she...

  • RE: Tuning Time

    I'd enjoy work more these days, if what Steve suggests were not true. Especially when folks write against databases that we designed and impemented 10 and 20 years...

  • RE: A Simple Approach to SQL Server 2005 Encryption

    Mike - great, I did a similar thing a few months back when one of our programmers needed to do an encrypted field for the first time (rot-13 really doesn't...

  • RE: Don''t Upgrade to SQL Server 2005

    Steve makes his points well (as usual) - and cases vary. I would counter-argue

    that this does NOT derail my current efforts to get all my SQL 2000 and...

  • RE: Beginning at Home

    Oh - which subway - the IRT, the IND, or the BMT? It's good to have a choice!

    (Of course, "local" in a subway isn't so good if you...

  • RE: Beginning at Home

    Sorry, Steve, you lost me this time. Do you live in Iowa?

    For the record - I go to my local pharmacist, not the cheaper mail order, because he can...

  • RE: Change Managment in database development?

    If all we're talking about is keeping schema in sync, it's simple enough -

    I run sp__revtable on the tables on my Sybase server databases that have not yet been...

  • RE: Attach and Detach..Again

    Nice set of articles. If you get inspired, here are two situations I have run into moving databases around.

    1. Using detach/attach, you lose the dbo information. I've...

  • RE: "DoubleTake" competitiors

    Another voice for XOSoft, if it suits your needs. We have a very very warm spare 25 miles away, always ready with the same databases (including master). ...

  • RE: Portability

    Speaking from vast experience: "it depends".

    Portability is important - but you can't predict so well what that means.  I have ported the same code base from -  (frontend / backend)...

  • RE: The 64-bit Question

    Happy Aniversary.  In all the celebrating, you missed the research done on SQL Server 2005 performance.

    If your apps live happily inside what 32 bit can do, you won't see much.

    However,...

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