Hahaha, yeah, Alaska & the West Coast are probably coming soon. Ideally, I'd like to do a spring/summer one out of Seattle to Alaska, and a fall/winter one in the...

DAC Packs aren't a solution, though, because they only support a subset of schema objects. For example, you can't include certain datatypes or stored procedures. Thanks for the...

As far as 3rd party backup tools there are so many available but I have worked only with SQLLItespeed and Hyperbac so I can talk about this. Advantage with...

If you run sp_updatestats without specifying a sampling ratio, it won't do a full scan of the tables to calculate the statistics. It'll use your default sampling ratio, which...