TravisDBA (3/18/2011)

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I see too many smaller companies not currently under SOX get away with this like posting a single job that includes: Application Developer, Project Manager, Database Administrator, Web Developer,...

That might work for address but if you're planning on doing name, SSN and MRN like that it may not meet the requirements to be considered anonymous. Are you...

Scalar functions should be avoided. I'm not aware of any general performance difference between views and table valued functions (unless the function is multi-statement) but there easily could be...

You're probably looking...

There may be a lot more than name you need to scramble. SSN. MRN. DOB. When you're done there shouldn't be any way to track back...

If you're looking for year you may want to do DATEADD(yy,-1,@begindate) to subtract a year. The day method may not do what you want if you're going through a...

Duncan Pryde (3/10/2011)

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I've got an email thread somewhere that runs into tens of messages between me and a contractor that was working on a database server of ours. Every time...

david_sipos (3/9/2011)

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The "pressure of immediacy" seems to be literally changing our concept of time. Are the posts you make to Facebook, Twitter, etc, so urgent they must be delivered...

Jeff Moden (3/9/2011)

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Oddly enough, I don't blame the customers. On the jobs where I've been able to contact the customer directly instead of through a PM, I've been able...

blandry (3/2/2011)...Human Resource Directors tell me time and time again, no, you cant do that. Everyone deserves a second chance.

But when the second chance is actually the third, fourth,...

The product I support actually works somewhat similar to the way the article says to do it. One of the major difference is that the list of excluded words...

TravisDBA (1/26/2011)

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It works on my machine: I have always wanted to answer this with a "Who gives a <insert four letter expletive here>?" My actual responses haven't been that far...

WayneS (1/26/2011)

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I only mostly agree with #8 in the referenced article. Sometimes the issues that are causing you to look are out of the bosses control - or the issues...

That can...

While this is getting more possible with some laptops coming with fingerprint scanners I don't see it as a...