david_wendelken (9/22/2010)

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Products get better by improving on their strengths and adding better ideas from whatever source. That other source is often competing products. So don't get your knickers...

Yep, that's the one. It's an OK app from the users perspective (I guess) but deserves all the...

Two thumbs up. We have an application (FootPrints) that we wont consolidate onto our primary SQL cluster because they insist on using the SA account for their database interaction....

I’ll pile on to the “favor schemas” with:

•Organization- I have multiple departments (marketing, accounting, hr) / applications (crm, rpt.) that I support. Being able to group them in a...

I use schemas to make separate logical divisions within a database to partition off common functionality. I’ll also create a file group to hold data for some schemas. ...

Yes to those, PowerShell and and a few utilities I wrote myself.

Like Steve, it gives our organization one more DBA opportunity so, it's not all bad. I haven't drunk the kool-aid on this product but I do see potential. ...

Sounds like a good plan. Do a tool comparison but don't select a "winner" because that's a matter of preference. Then drill in with a how to on...

Thanks for the kind words. I'm in the process of building a utility that will read the file and do a sample "load" based on the format file. I...

Looks like I need to re-read my comments and use spell check before I post to the SQL Server Central. 🙂

Nice treatment of an unfamiliar topic. I had figured out most of what the syntax/convention was before reading this but didn't know it had a name and defined rules.

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DCDBA is the winner.

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I liked the code sample. I cleand it up by removing unused/unneeded variables, unneeded columns and tightend up on the error and loopin logic. Hope you approve of...

Maybe I went blind last night while typing in the code..... nope, no blindness. Bear, where did you see the cursor? I looked under every letter and couldn't...

hmmm... the solution provided by "bear in a box" looks very Oracle-ish. I believe MS & Oracle spend HOURS trying to figure out how to make their competitors code...