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| | | Getting Fired This editorial was originally published no Mar 27, 2014. It is being republished as Steve is on holiday. Have you ever been fired from a job? I hope most of you never have as it's a somewhat traumatizing experience. I've been let go from one (and asked to leave another), and even though I didn't like the job and wasn't sorry to be gone, I didn't like getting fired. Awhile back I saw Brent Ozar ask the question on Twitter: "when do you fire a DBA?". There were a number of answers, and he ended up writing a post that summarized some of the reasons as responses. You can read the post, and the various reasons. I think for most of them, I'd disagree if any incident were the first occurrence of the situation. I know people will make mistakes, and if I don't forgive accidents, I'll never have anyone trust me as a manager. I also don't think you let someone go for ignorance. They might never have had to deal with a situation. I don't think you let them go if they don't dig deep into systems and find problems. It's always possible they haven't gotten to the one item that causes a disaster. To me there are two certain places where I'd let someone go. The first is willfully taking part in any illegal activity. I don't think an officer of an organization can allow that to take place. The second is more subjective. I would have to let you go when you've repeatedly shown that you're not becoming a better employee and making the same mistakes over and over again. Failure to learn is not an option. Steve Jones from SQLServerCentral.comJoin the debate, and respond to today's editorial on the forums |
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| | |  | Erin Stellato from SQLServerCentral.com In this Level, we'll walk through the basics of using the New Session dialog in the UI to create a new event session, define its events, actions and predicates, and establish a target for the session in which to collect the event data. More » |
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 | Additional Articles from SimpleTalk As the final entry in this series, Robert Sheldon leads you through a group of forgotten features that have been removed from recent versions of SQL Server. In some cases, the features were widely used and often loved, while others had lost their usefulness over the years or were replaced with something much better. In this article, he remembers Data Transformation Services (DTS), a handful of DBCC commands, a few utilities, Active Directory Helper Service, English Query, Web Assistant, SQL Mail, Native XML Web Services, Notification Services, SQL Distributed Management Objects, Surface Area Configuration Tool, and the Pubs and Northwind databases. More » |
 | Steve Jones from SQLServerCentral Blogs I should write about my first one, but I just copied Rob’s test, so that’s not so exciting. Instead, I... More » |
| | david.fowler 42596 from SQLServerCentral Blogs From time to time we need to make changes to Always on Availability group Synchronization mode settings , this also includes... More » |
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| | | Today's Question (by Steve Jones): I've got this function in R: FindingTheMean <- function(first, second, third) { return((first + second + third )/ 3) } I decide to call it like this. FindingTheMean(f=25, t = 100, 200) What happens? |
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| Yesterday's Question (by Steve Jones): I've got this query: SELECT SalesYear = YEAR(soh.orderdate) , SalesMonth = MONTH(soh.OrderDate) , SUM(soh.TotalDue) , AggGroup = GROUPING(YEar(soh.OrderDate)) FROM Sales.SalesOrderHeader AS soh WHERE YEAR(soh.OrderDate) = 2014 GROUP BY GROUPING SETS ( YEAR(soh.OrderDate), (YEAR(soh.OrderDate), MONTH(soh.OrderDate)) ) What values are returned for the AggGroup column?
Answer: 0 for all rows Explanation: The GROUPING function is useful to show those rows that have aggregated in the result set. In this case, none of these rows are aggregated with a NULL value for the group. Ref: GROUPING - click here
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