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Oovoo
We’ve been doing video conference calls for work through LiveMeeting for a few months. After two years of audio only calls, I have to say that the video was helpful. It adds to the meeting and it keeps me more … Continue reading
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How Many Rows Have Changed?
One of the things that I’ve asked DBAs, and I see asked often, is how much does your data change? That affects the transaction log sizes (and backups), the load on your server, possibly the tuning and specs you want … Continue reading
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Deprecating Objects – Feedback
I posted a note awhile back that it might be nice to be able to mark an object as deprecated. Then have the system remove it after some time, to allow us to prune out old data, objects, etc that … Continue reading
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My Journey – Part II
This is part II of my journey to being a DBA. I was “tagged” by Jacob Sebastian, so I decided to make my entry. Yesterday’s entry, Part I, looked at my education, and today I’ll talk about my career. Internship … Continue reading
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