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  • RE: Detecting Differences in Files on Servers

    I think that's quite a complex solution to an unnecessary complex problem. I don't see why a report is needed at all - it seems to me that the reporting...

  • RE: Pre-built or Ad Hoc

    The movement away from schema-defined XML to schemaless JSON will only exacerbate the problem. With NOSQL work still has to be done, but processing is deferred from ETL to query...

  • RE: Creating Striped Backups

    For IO constrained environments, striped backups come into their own when the backups are compressed: Since the compression process is inevitably single-threaded, increasing the number of striped backup files permits...

  • RE: Solid State Disks and SQL Server

    Backup the database elsewhere, reforat the drive with 4096 sector size and restore. Or copy everything off, reformat and copy back on.

  • RE: Single User Performance of SQLite v. SQL Server

    The whole basis of this article is undermined because the author picked an unsuitable edition of SQL Server for comparison: SQL Server Compact would be the equivalent product and would...

  • RE: No Overtime

    Gift Peddie's comment goes a good way to explaining why I'm a contractor. I do my hours and walk out the door. No more working for free - that's for...

  • RE: No Overtime

    call.copse (12/7/2011)


    ...The US state also sanctions murder...

    Murder by definition is an illegal killing. You could say that capital punishment is state-sanctioned killing, but murder it is not.

    Infact the bible makes...

  • RE: No Overtime

    I'm a consultant here in the UK. I either contract to be paid on an hourly basis, or on a daily basis, so the unpaid overtime only kicks in for...

  • RE: An alternative to GUIDs

    A common problem among developers is an unwillingness to master the entire software stack. If you want great software, you must develop expertise in all layers including DB and OS.

  • RE: An alternative to GUIDs

    Colin Barry (9/19/2011)


    Thought provoking.

    Why have a service issue the GUIDs? A small bit of clr code could do what you need and would be fast. You could then let your...

  • RE: An alternative to GUIDs

    Sergiy - What I'm trying to say is that the original idea of coming up with a more efficient globally unique identifier is good. However its usage in order to...

  • RE: An alternative to GUIDs

    Sergiy - It isn't the job of programmers/developers to reinvent the wheel of infrastructure: There are a number of infrastructure topologies that already exist to deal with datacentre destruction scenarios,...

  • RE: An alternative to GUIDs

    gahayden (9/15/2011)


    I have to agree with SSC Eights. Why not use a composite key?

    For many years, when storage was expensive, single fields were often used to depict mutiple entities and...

  • RE: An alternative to GUIDs

    hxchi (9/15/2011)


    To synchronize the two server clocks to 1 millisecond precision is not a trivial task.

    Especially because Windows internal system clock has a default resolution of 3 milliseconds!

  • RE: An alternative to GUIDs

    Utilising a separate table to store the highest existing identifier is not a good strategy for performance because it introduces a hot-spot into the insertion process: In order to insert...

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