Look around. All people are crazy, not just the one's that work with databases. I used...

As with taking a seat in a room full of people, I tend to take the same parking spot at work each morning. Yes, I do get miffed when someone...

Agreed. Although it did simulate a lot of maintenance programming I've had to do. Reminded me...

Strong - definitely. At least you know where you're going, and you tend to get used to better purpose.

I've said there are four kinds of managers:

1 - Technically strong, weak...

Thanks for the question. Had to think about just what "data file" entailed to get it correct.

Thanks for the question. At least you sparked some controversy. Pointing out the now obvious, would have been much better to have included a note saying that test2 had been...

Thanks for the question!

I'm curious about the terminology though. The previously used "noise words" did a good job at conveying the meaning of what was being represented. Seems like "stopwords"...

Thanks for the question on master database. "Please, sir, I want some more."

Good question. I agree with Tom. Surprising number of incorrect answers. And yet no complaints - yet. Strange.

Thomas Abraham (8/17/2011)

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Jeff Moden (8/10/2011)

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As a side bar, I obviously don't know the condition of your tables but, at the risk of sounding a bit like Celko, unless it's a...

Surprised to be the first to respond. THought this one would generate a lot of replies.

Where I work, the health care plan keeps getting modified - never seems to change...

Good question. Thanks. Oh, I missed it - but it was still a good question. Helps if you read the entire reference you find before answering.

Jeff Moden (8/10/2011)

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As a side bar, I obviously don't know the condition of your tables but, at the risk of sounding a bit like Celko, unless it's a staging table,...

Thanks for the question. Had to dig a bit, but it was worth it. Starting to like NUMA. If I had a daughter, I think I'd name her that. (Rhymes...

Seemed like a no-brainer, as I thought that was the purpose of "at rest" data protection. But, I've seen the issues posted above. Some day we'll all converse in an...