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Dates - especially when SQL Server can't be British!

Just like memory config dates never seem to go away and I've had some discussions with our BI team recently on why things were not working quite as expected, especially on the 13th of the month; and I noticed the same issue had arisen for a member...

Do you use the float datatype?

I thought I’d perhaps blog about this although I don’t truly think this is of any real significance unless you like to use the flat datatype, which I hope you don’t. I had restored a production backup onto a development box and the guys had run a couple...

Not thinking it through – the post mortem

I just thought I’d round off my series of posts concerning my first experience of an outsourced data centre. http://sqlblogcasts.com/blogs/grumpyolddba/archive/2007/01/04/not-thinking-it-through-the-saga-continues.aspx It really got to the stage of almost...
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