Differential base... And so I learn a new term (that I arguably should have know before this).

Thank you again, Gail. You are a star.

I know that. The chain that was broken was between the differential and the...

jk_in_San_Diego (12/5/2013)

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Once upon a time, in the dark ages of printed textbooks and such, plagarism was not only frowned upon, it was cause for immediate dismissal or expulsion from university.

To...

Samuel Vella (12/5/2013)

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Brandie Tarvin (12/5/2013)

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One thing most people don't realize is that quoting an author's work, and attributing it properly, might not be plagiarism but it is still copyright infringement....

HA! I like this one.

j.zinn (12/5/2013)

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I'm just really impressed by the reaction that this site had to content that was lifted without attribution. A quick, scholarly reaction. I hope that Mr. Ben-Gan appreciated the...

One thing most people don't realize is that quoting an author's work, and attributing it properly, might not be plagiarism but it is still copyright infringement. Microsoft gives a certain...

Having used Litespeed before I know it wouldn't help with this backup because it's a native SQL backup.

MyPath is a SAN drive on another server. I'd love to copy the backup file over to the server that I'm going to be restoring to, but I don't have...

In that case, I'd make sure you have enough RAM for both instances to be up (when the other server fails) and still be able to run the OS, etc....

I don't advise using the same server for a warm standby of your primary database. If you lose the server, you lose both the primary and the stand by.

According to Brent Ozar's blog (in the comments) it's 64GB per instance. But you should read his reply to that comment.

http://www.brentozar.com/archive/2010/06/sql-server-r-standard-supports-less-memory/%5B/url%5D

EDIT: You should also consider what will happen to the...

Speaking of maps and geospatial data, which is a better type of data to use? Raster or Vector?

The entire structure depends on your data, what you're keeping, etc.

The way we have ours designed is by using versioning. We keep a "main" table that is narrow and contains...

Careful there. Absolute statements like this can get you into trouble in the DBA world.

The "correct way" depends on what you...