It's better than the old days in SQL 2000. You had to run the profiler for 24 hours to gather a "workload" and then run that through the index...

One of my customers produces frozen meat products. Thanks to Clarence Birdseye this stuff can stay around for a very long time. The late Col. David Hackworth made...

House fire. Who would have thought that a house fire could be helpful? "I'm sorry. All my records went in the fire we had a few years...

MSNMessengerLive, GoToMeeting, internal newsgroups (what, your company does not run their own...

About. Management by Walking About. If you say it that way the folks east of the...

Riiight. Like that's going to happen! Seriously that's why some...

Anders Pedersen (4/1/2008)

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Wasn't this sort of how SQL 6 and 6.5 worked? At least if I remember correctly those two (and I assume 4.2) bypassed the OS for IO...

What!?! Oh damn. You mean that it's not..... :crying: "... and he went forth...

Well with CLR integration you don't need to run programs. You write them.

I won't miss drive letters...

I think that I might have been misunderstood here. When I spouted off about a moral obligation that was meant for me and old timers like me. I've...

I too am a developer that is often called upon to do DBA work. I find SQL server very scalable and have had customers who have no IT department...

There is this other thread talking about a backup without indexes. Also a compressed backup that would be just the data (logs all committed) and scripts for everything else...

NDA's should almost be in place everywhere in our industry. My customers trust me, and our company, not only with their data but with their plans and policies. ...

Routine? Normal? Daily grind? I have not been anywhere close to those concepts for years! When my customers need something they need it now! (Side...

pnewhart (3/6/2008)

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Unfortunately in my line of work...a IT solutions vendor...it's part of my job to be a tedious coder. Again, with all due respect to you, I've never seen...