It seems logical to me that you would want to strip the stopwords first before thesaurus expansions and replacements occur. I have very little experience with full-text searching so maybe...

I once had a manager who is very technical, which was good at the beginning because he helped me learn SQL Server, database development, design, etc... But once I got...

I've worked for companies where everyone worked extra hours all the time. I agree, a good manager knows how to manage the employees' workload, but when the manager is working...

Thanks for the lead...I'll check it...

I am actually faced witht the same task. Although I have not developed anything yet, one approach I am thinking about is setting up triggers and then writing to a...

Great job! I like how you break down each part of the script with brief descriptions.

Good article! I recently ran into issues regarding this and your post summarizes the behavior nicely. I'll use it for quick, future reference.

I want a PS3. I'm too cheap to buy it myself.

Happ Birthday Steve!

Very good point. This is helpful especially if you have restore scripts...

Good luck. Hopefully they will see the light. Let me know how it turns out.

You probably considered this already, but can you change the query that retrieves the data by getting the max(my_date) where my_date <= InputDate for given id and customer? That way,...

I've experienced data corruption only once in the six years I've been a DBA. I'm guessing it's a pretty rare occurrence, but when it happens, you really need to be...

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As for energy, I'm not sure about how things might change if you were at home. Plenty of people don't change their heat/AC during the day,...

In the article about Sun, it mentions that energy consumption was compared by measuring office equipment against home office use. It does not mention anything about the extra energy costs...

I've worked for smaller companies and they usually have little or no funds set aside for training. I would be happy with 2-3% and one or two weeks per year....