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Developing, modeling, administering, tuning, troubleshooting, extracting, transforming, and loading databases full time since 1996.

First professional assignment with databases began building CAClipper xBase applications back when a database with 2 million plus records was considered huge. Moved to FoxPro and Borland Visual Delphi in the mid 90's and then SQL Server in '98.

Have also worked with Sybase, MySQL, Oracle, Access, Multivalue Informix, Filemaker, 4D and the Microsoft BI stack.


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comment Booking system structure
Does it meet the needs of the business logic? Simple is good if it covers the purpose of it's creation. In the booking record I assume that client and room are FK to clientid and roomid? My only suggestion... I usually recommend naming the same for clarity sake.
Mar
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comment Upgrade SQL Server 2012 Express to Evaluation Edition
Yeah, sharepoint install makes it a little more fragile for sure.
Mar
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comment Upgrade SQL Server 2012 Express to Evaluation Edition
How many databases on your express install? How much work to backup, install fresh, and restore?
Mar
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comment Can't choose which date sql server 2005 backup to read in sql server 2008.
Is one a full backup and the others log backups? Don't rely on the file extensions because SQL doesn't actually care about that.
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comment Delete a variable number of records by a chronological order
Also, I was trying to get around deprecation with the sub select but it's a nil issue now. Thanks again.
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accepted Delete a variable number of records by a chronological order
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comment Delete a variable number of records by a chronological order
Apparantly I didn't get the memo about using parenthesis. Thank you SQL2005. Awesome.
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asked Delete a variable number of records by a chronological order
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revised Change Data Capture and the __$update_mask binary
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comment Change Data Capture and the __$update_mask binary
Check out my NEW answer before you do. As cool as the CLR is... we found an even better way. Good luck.
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accepted Change Data Capture and the __$update_mask binary
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answered Change Data Capture and the __$update_mask binary