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RE: DBA vs Database Developer

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I think it really depends on the job you're applying for, or the position you're comparing your experience to...I would think database developer deals with the front-end programmers and helps with app. architecture, etc. The DBA IMO, would be managing the production databases as mentioned above. I would play up the experience that is requested, […]

2005-05-16

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Revised - dt_ stored procedure in every database and its purpose(URGENT)

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Hi Gurus,Sql server 2000 Ent. edition Sp3Win 2000What is the use of dt_ stored procedures in every database. I observed when we create a blank database there are no dt_ stored procedure created in the database. Once you create a single table in the same database , this bunch of dt_ stored procedure created.While seeing […]

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2004-10-14

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RE: Question Regarding XACT_ABORT ON

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Sorry for the previous question. The point that I had mentioned is that we do not use this statement when working with ADO 2.5 and ADO.NET. What I missed out there was that in those cases the transaction was controlled from the front end and on an error occuring the transaction was rolled back. What […]

2003-08-19

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RE: How do I decide, why index here and not there?

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I guess the point is that the indexing strategy you take is inconsequential if the queries and tables are poorly designed to begin with. If you normalize the table structures and do things like I wrote above, then the indexing strategy becomes much more clear: index first on those fields which will be most frequently […]

2003-07-22

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RE: Counting "incomplete" fields in tables

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Hi HallD you could try using substring to return the column name as follows :- create table incomplete_test (col1 int , col2 varchar(10)) insert into incomplete_test values (0, "A") insert into incomplete_test values (0, "") insert into incomplete_test values (0, null) insert into incomplete_test values (1, "A") insert into incomplete_test values (1, "") insert into […]

2003-07-10

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RE: Developer tips for team.

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Stored procedures, stored procedures, stored procedures. Simply don't let the apps access the server in any other way. Use roles with execute permissions on the stored procs. Always make dbo the owner of the tables and stored procedures. If they have Visual Studio .NET and Visual Source Safe, encourage them to use database projects. This […]

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2003-06-16

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RE: Check Columns Exist Before Select

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I would love to do that, but I'm using ColdFusion and CFQUERY, and if I use GO it "spits" Maybe I should turn it into a Stored Procedure and pass it the names of the table and fields... that'd work with the GO's, right?

2003-05-27

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