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Encryption in general should be a default install at the OS level and apply to all files, not just to database files or express editions. Files like formatted reports, xls...
December 21, 2009 at 9:12 am
Even I forget the changes I made. A change log is essential whether it's one or more than one DBAs. It would be best if the log was the same...
November 23, 2009 at 11:37 am
Gianluca Sartori (11/16/2009)
....Flexible languages such as VB.Net allow you to write crappy code, rigid languages such as Java simply don't allow crap....
VB.net flexible and Java rigid? Wow, that's a new...
November 18, 2009 at 9:56 pm
Great series Gail.
Wondering if you had any thoughts about this: Say I have a non-unique, non-clustered index with some included columns. It covers a bunch of frequently used queries. I...
November 18, 2009 at 1:39 pm
GSquared (11/13/2009)
Microsoft has it on their "Will be required in a future version", but doesn't have a date on it yet.
Semi colons are already a requirement for certain idioms in...
November 16, 2009 at 7:50 pm
johan.vandamme (11/16/2009)
November 16, 2009 at 11:37 am
Coming from C/C++ background, I naturally gravitated towards C#. But having done VB and C# projects, I find C# less verbose and easier to maintain. For this same reason, I'm...
November 15, 2009 at 11:32 am
What to unit test itself is a long learning process, much of it determined by anticipating problems. They depend on existing state of the app, frequency of upgrades, hardware capacities,...
November 10, 2009 at 12:41 pm
Yet another tool to be tucked away for use when appropriate.
Another tool along these lines would be to expand select statement itself to allow for an exclusion set of columns....
November 5, 2009 at 9:09 am
It uses SQL Server, which means every Sharepoint sale not only increases the need for a DBA...
Sharepoint at this time is giving SQL Server a bad name. That's been my...
October 28, 2009 at 9:51 am
Good points about virtualization.
Any complex org will have a variety of db needs, many of which can start on a virtual server and then migrate to a dedicated one...
October 26, 2009 at 11:20 am
How about simple touches to SSMS like:
sort output columns by clicking
compare output of two different result sets
compare two different code windows
right-mouse click on object name in QA and open it...
October 19, 2009 at 11:37 am
In the old days when bandwidth for analog channels was fixed, bundling made sense. But with digital channels and improvements in bandwidth management, billing, monitoring, and other advances in pay-per-view,...
October 5, 2009 at 9:04 am
Jeff Moden (8/25/2009)
sjsubscribe (8/25/2009)
August 26, 2009 at 1:32 pm
This has been a perpetual problem for govt employment. For some jobs we could not even acknowledge product familiarity much less evaluate or offer critical advice. So most of us...
August 25, 2009 at 9:53 am
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