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Data warehouse contractor in London. Mostly I work with SQL Server on Insurance clients. I've proposed a business intelligence site on Area 51, which has now been merged into dba.stackexchange.com.

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Should developers be able to query production databases?
Jan 6, 2012
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Why can't RDBM's cluster the way NoSQL does?
Feb 17, 2013
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As a DBA, how would I go about transitioning from Oracle to SQL Server?
Apr 23, 2012
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What does a DBA have to know about SSAS?
Mar 7, 2012
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What is lock escalation?
Oct 15, 2008
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How to make a transition from SQL Server DBA to Oracle?
Dec 27, 2011
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Where should you define foreign keys?
Mar 22, 2012
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EF Code First uses nvarchar(max) for all strings. Will this hurt query performance?
Aug 20, 2013
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Why should I use Visual Studio 2010 over SSMS for my database development?
Nov 4, 2011
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Patterns for setting up sharding for SQL Server 2008 R2, in order to handle large datasets?
May 27, 2011
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DBA.SE Xmas caption competition - 'tis the season to be jolly
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Opinions about merging the Business Intelligence proposal into this site
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We need to formalize a site title/name. Does "Database Administrators" still ring true?
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Is it appropriate to ask for tips on data architecture here?
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Can we get mullet.stackexchange.com aliased to dba.stackexchange.com?
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What do 'real', 'user' and 'sys' mean in the output of time(1)?
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Optimistic vs. Pessimistic locking
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Random is barely random at all?
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Should developers have administrator permissions on their PC
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What is the Re-entrant lock and concept in general?

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