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  • March 13, 2018 at 7:22 pm

    #1983077

    There is no way in hell that I'll ever allow anyone in a company that I work for to install the system databases (or any other database) on the same drive as the operating system whether it's a VM or not.  There are just too many things that can go and have gone wrong.  For things like clustering, it can be a form of severe aggravation and death by SQL. 😉

    --Jeff Moden

    RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
    First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
    ________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.

    Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.

    Helpful Links:
    How to post code problems
    How to Post Performance Problems
    Create a Tally Function (fnTally)