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  • RE: Are There That Many GUIDs?

    David Walker-278941 (10/12/2010)


    I originally didn't like GUIDs because I thought they used too much "space". They really don't. Disk space is cheap, and GUIDs are only 16 bytes...

  • RE: Are There That Many GUIDs?

    TheSQLGuru (10/12/2010)


    <SmartA$$ ON>I LOVE it when clients use GUIDs in their database schemas - more tuning work for me!! πŸ˜€ <SmartA$$ OFF>

    πŸ˜‰ Yeah, it's really a globaly unique revenue genrating...

  • RE: Are There That Many GUIDs?

    Andy Warren (10/12/2010)


    Strangely perhaps, I believe that performance isn't everything. It's important, but sometimes I think we try too hard, the equivalent of taking out the seats in our car...

  • RE: Are There That Many GUIDs?

    I have to agree that using a Globally Unique Identifier (GUID or UUID) data type for a normal sized database table row primary key is a waste of memory, space,...

  • RE: Penalties

    http://articles.sfgate.com/2008-07-24/bay-area/17171141_1_computer-network-computer-system-bosses

    from the middle-ish of the article:

    This article was written in 2008 and it's supositions about these special secret modems and thier access to the SF FibreWan did not come out...

  • RE: Penalties

    Steve Jones - Editor (8/18/2010)


    I don't think we completely know what happened. That would be limited to a few people

    I agree. How about this quote from a member of the...

  • RE: Penalties

    jcrawf02 (8/18/2010)


    1 - from what I remember reading, Childs not only didn't give up the passwords, he installed new access points in secretive locations, in order to continue his control...

  • RE: Penalties

    Lots of feelings spilling out here, but the facts are this:

    * This was a public network with peoples personal and private record and data on it. It falls...

  • RE: Duplicate value in Identity column

    Only one person can insert identity on a column at a time, so WE can not... :hehe:

  • RE: How many partitions?

    I selected error becuase with the given code example it was the answer closest to the result. I understand the point your question was trying to make. Your...

  • RE: Incompetent or Malicious

    "The LUN was a single disk instead of an array, and used this to prove they should be in charge of disk design when performance problems ensued."

    My comment is...

  • RE: Table locked?

    Some process could still stuck updating your Database table. Or at the very least that is what the database belives.

    Use the Activity Manager and kill all processes attached...

  • RE: Google FUD

    IMO the number one Internet security flaw is user execution of un-known content.

    You do not know how many times I had to clean root kits of computers because someone had...

  • RE: Where a Rose is not a rose…

    This is like playing Jepordy!

    My answer to the Daily Double is:

    "Why they wrote COBAL and why it failed."

    Does anyone actually remember why they wrote COBAL? I know it was case...

  • RE: Possibility to wirte the queries involved in blocking to Error log

    Q: what should we do after capturing the queries involved in blocking?

    A: Review all application queries making certain all table selects have NOLOCK hints and all updates or inserts have...

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