At risk of turning this into a technical discussion again. Aren't bulk insert operations minimally logged? Haven't they been since at least SQL 2000?

I ask because a MS document I'm...

Gus, you have a talent for seeing the same concerns as I do, but articulating them much better. Thank...

Gianluca Sartori (3/25/2011)

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WayneS (3/25/2011)

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From what I see....

Fill up a "group queue" with two groups, in order of the routeCode column.

Return one row from each group, in order of the routePos...

Gianluca Sartori (3/25/2011)

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Let me try to rephrase this: we have X groups with Y elements each.

We have to pull out data taking one row from group 1, one row from...

GilaMonster (3/25/2011)

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The IO docs I referred you to should make it clear that SQL does not move data from log to data file during a checkpoint, and given that they...

To get more input, I #SQLHelp tweeted the question about the transaction log to data file that I'd posted. I got an immediate response that SQL does indeed work that...

Please try to clarify (in words, without reposting the data output) what the order logic is. Remember, we don't know your data as well as you do, so you might...

GSquared (3/25/2011)

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So start a completely serious post with, "I had this idea for an April Fools...

GilaMonster (3/25/2011)

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Brandie Tarvin (3/25/2011)

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GilaMonster (3/25/2011)

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The changed records can have long since being written to stable media by the time the associated log records are truncated. Depends what else is happening,...

Fal (3/25/2011)

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I just popped along to the Guiness World Records website to see if we could lodge The Thread under a Longest Web Thread category or similar. There doesn't...

GilaMonster (3/25/2011)

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The changed records can have long since being written to stable media by the time the associated log records are truncated. Depends what else is happening, what else those...

GilaMonster (3/23/2011)

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Data doesn't move...

Richard Warr (3/25/2011)

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It looks as though that's a bit of a "spam" page. There's no evidence that the product actually exists, just an "Enter your email address and we'll be...

No, it's not an official MS link. I didn't include the link because I don't want to give them business.

I did find the MS link though at http://www.microsoft.com/learning/en/us/training/format-books-support.aspx.

And sure enough,...

So I'm googling to see if there's a way to get a replacement CD and notice an odd link. I open the link up in another window and see this...