Jeffrey Williams (12/28/2008)
I would recommend that you don't get rid of the data corruption forum. It should be one that stands by itself for those cases where someone is really in need of recovering a corrupted databases.
Indeed. We're not CSS, but we do get a fair few posts in there. If those were in the general admin, they'd be much, much harder to find and they probably wouldn't get the assistance they currently do.
Even to the point of consolidating the 2005/2008 forums instead of separate forums. Most of the functionality has not changed between the two
I was thinking much the same thing. There aren't that many differences between the two. New features, sure, but most of the existing stuff behaves very similar. It was 2000-2005 that saw a major engine rewrite.
I admit, I don't use the forum home page at all, but maybe something like this would work...
SQL 2005/2008
General admin (for stuff that doesn't belong in any of the more specific admin sections)
Backup/Restore
Replication
Security/auditing
Data corruption
T-SQL
CLR Development
Performance Tuning
SQL 2000/7
General admin
Backup/Restore
Replication
Security
Data corruption
T-SQL
Performance Tuning
Business Intelligence
Analysis Services
Reporting Services
Integration Services
DTS
Design and Strategy (for discussions of the theoretical concepts or planning)
High Availability
Database Design
Relational Theory
Hardware
General Strategies (for stuff that doesn't belong in the more specific forums)
Outside of SQL
Other database platforms (for problems interacting with Oracle, DB2, MySQL, Progress, etc)
SMO/RMO/DMO
Powershell
If you could hide the editorial, QotD and article discussions forums completely (ie make them not browsable via the forum home page) it would reduce the clutter, reduce the size of all the pages (anyone checked to see how many kb the drop down box at the bottom of each page is?) and stop people posting irrelevance stuff in them
Gail Shaw
Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
SQL In The Wild: Discussions on DB performance with occasional diversions into recoverability