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Eric Gray (10/11/2011)
The operative phrase here is simple. Since we've discovered how much faster it is to do data manipulation on the database server rather than send millions of...
Ralph D. Wilson II
Development DBA
"Give me 6 hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first 4 sharpening the ax."
A. Lincoln
October 11, 2011 at 12:17 pm
I suspect that most of the responses have been coming from Production/Core DBAs and not from Development DBAs.
Our Production DBA is constantly espousing the view that "DBAs DON'T...
Ralph D. Wilson II
Development DBA
"Give me 6 hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first 4 sharpening the ax."
A. Lincoln
October 11, 2011 at 7:53 am
rmechaber (8/31/2010)
Ralph D. Wilson II
Development DBA
"Give me 6 hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first 4 sharpening the ax."
A. Lincoln
September 1, 2010 at 8:11 am
mtassin (8/31/2010)
RalphWilson (8/31/2010)
mtassin (8/31/2010)
RalphWilson (8/30/2010)
To put it mildly, that really screws up trying to do any overall input and analysis of the test results because the input process is a...
Ralph D. Wilson II
Development DBA
"Give me 6 hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first 4 sharpening the ax."
A. Lincoln
August 31, 2010 at 11:02 am
mtassin (8/31/2010)
RalphWilson (8/30/2010)
A "skipped" question is one that has not been answered but has a Question Number that is lower than the highest Question number that has been answered.
Why...
Ralph D. Wilson II
Development DBA
"Give me 6 hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first 4 sharpening the ax."
A. Lincoln
August 31, 2010 at 9:36 am
One argument that can hardly be touched : no matter how you deal with it in the db, you'll have to do work in the application to handle cases... or...
Ralph D. Wilson II
Development DBA
"Give me 6 hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first 4 sharpening the ax."
A. Lincoln
August 30, 2010 at 2:36 pm
A "skipped" question is one that has not been answered but has a Question Number that is lower than the highest Question number that has been answered.
An "Unanswered Question"...
Ralph D. Wilson II
Development DBA
"Give me 6 hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first 4 sharpening the ax."
A. Lincoln
August 30, 2010 at 1:09 pm
Now that we appear to be including DW in the mix, I have a question for y'all.
Suppose I have a database in which I am storing the answers that are...
Ralph D. Wilson II
Development DBA
"Give me 6 hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first 4 sharpening the ax."
A. Lincoln
August 30, 2010 at 12:56 pm
Steve Jones - Editor (8/30/2010)
I've always seen "N/A" as "Not applicable", but you give some good other responses that might be used. Hence another point for the "non-nulls" argument.
I have...
Ralph D. Wilson II
Development DBA
"Give me 6 hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first 4 sharpening the ax."
A. Lincoln
August 30, 2010 at 11:20 am
Steve Jones - Editor (8/30/2010)
I personally think it's OK, but I see the...
Ralph D. Wilson II
Development DBA
"Give me 6 hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first 4 sharpening the ax."
A. Lincoln
August 30, 2010 at 10:01 am
While I can see the point of determining the incremental costs of not only adding indexes but also things like stored procs, temp tables, and triggers as well as the...
Ralph D. Wilson II
Development DBA
"Give me 6 hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first 4 sharpening the ax."
A. Lincoln
August 25, 2010 at 9:15 am
aeyates (6/22/2010)
This does not seem to be related to either SSRS or expert systems.
And here I thought it was an interesting use of SSRS to accomplish a basic (albeit very...
Ralph D. Wilson II
Development DBA
"Give me 6 hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first 4 sharpening the ax."
A. Lincoln
June 23, 2010 at 11:08 am
douglas.allison-1136597 (6/4/2010)
The only other hobby (apart from the family) is Single Malt Whisky and would I like to do that everyday (Hell yes) however one would think that would...
Ralph D. Wilson II
Development DBA
"Give me 6 hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first 4 sharpening the ax."
A. Lincoln
June 4, 2010 at 9:21 am
TIFEMB (6/1/2010)
I am glad I am in SQL now and have...
Ralph D. Wilson II
Development DBA
"Give me 6 hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first 4 sharpening the ax."
A. Lincoln
June 1, 2010 at 4:12 pm
Laura Grob (5/28/2010)
I too hope to one day not...
Ralph D. Wilson II
Development DBA
"Give me 6 hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first 4 sharpening the ax."
A. Lincoln
May 28, 2010 at 3:42 pm
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