I use the free version of Slack quite a bit at work as I am part of a geographically distributed team. It makes collaboration quite easy.

We have set up...

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I just found this post so it is a bit too late to offer any advice.

What happened with your interview? Are you the senior ETL dev?

I believe that the limitation is for data files and not log files.

j.a.c.

We get about 3.6 GB per minute of throughput on our old Dell 2950 (with fiber channel disk attached to a 2Gb fabric) when running DBCC CHECKDB WITH PHYSICAL ONLY....

I think the target db needs to have the TRUSTWORTHY option set high. Not the best solution but I was able to get DBCC CHECKTABLE working in a SQL Agent...

I do miss the old Query Analyser.

You could specify a format file as input to the program. If you wanted a red background with white bolded text for a...

I like that term: Private mentoring session. Kind of like Chuck Norris' motivational seminar?

Ah well not quite. But it is still frustrating to have to point out shortcomings in...

We are currently evaluating NuoDb for a couple of possible uses.

So far the platform seems sound enough but we have only just started.

I can't wait to see how...

Splunk is an excellent tool for mining tons of data (our systems log hundreds of Gb per day) and for correlating events across different devices/apps/log sources. While Splunk can make...

Hi,

Are there any sessions that have been running for a long time? Any by long time I mean running for days. We just had two incidents like that where the...

We used to hire 4 interns each summer. Some of our best developers were drawn from this intern pool to come back as full time employees.

Sadly those days are...

GSquared (3/21/2012)

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If it's been through a proper QA and testing phase, and is part of an automated deployment process from properly configured and used source control, then it shouldn't actually...

That is what I currently do now, review the code, deploy it or send it back if the code needs to be refactored. But now there are calls for having...

I think they are going with Solaris...