Thanks Lynn. I have more experience with Service Broker too, but I'm willing to learn and tackle something new if there is another option that is better and I'm more...

Yes, it is in a sense a cache. I thought of it more of a view than a cache, but the idea still holds. We're not refreshing the...

We have an app our clients (remote/off-site) use and developed technology to refresh their view in real-time when data changes on our servers. What they see is the most...

I don't have the answer, but did you try outputing the 1->2 values on report 1 to verify you are getting the results expected and display the parameter on report...

Koen Verbeeck (5/21/2012)

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I learned yesterday that my session about columnstore indexes on the Belgian community day is only 45 minutes....

Brandie Tarvin (5/18/2012)

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BTW, I'm linking people to my happy announcements list for the next two weeks.

http://www.absolutewrite.com/forums/showthread.php?t=245248

And... The Hivemind Collective has a website now for the Latchkeys series with links to...

Chad Crawford (5/14/2012)

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Wahoo! Just got a note stating that Jason is teaching our users group meeting today. Unfortunately, I'll be the guy that shows up late and...

Wahoo! Just got a note stating that Jason is teaching our users group meeting today. Unfortunately, I'll be the guy that shows up late and has to leave...

I think that is what I'm going to recommend - a CLR hit to a webservice to simulate "activation". It will work the same, I've done it before, and...

That is an awesome explanation Gus, thank you for taking the time to write it out. I like what you've done and it's similar to the direction I was...

Gus - I've done Scrums before but I'm not seeing how they would help with prioritization, perhaps we were using scrum incorrectly. We would Blitz (hope this is the...

Jeff Moden (5/1/2012)

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Chad Crawford (5/1/2012)

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We have a variety of database related projects and tasks in the pipeline and I'm trying to put together a system to rank and prioritize...

Thanks Gus. Can you expound a little? My understanding of a scrum (which I'm sure is insufficient) is that it is used to flesh out the details of...

HAHA! That implies that some days we are not? 🙂

jcrawf02 (3/6/2012)

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People crack me up. Someone posts a link to a report, and misstates what the report found (extrapolating a specific finding to the general). When I point out that...