I work in a busy support environment, with longer term projects overlaid on the to-do list can get a bit frenetic and/or daunting at times.

I find it's always good to...

Wasn't 'Mote in God's Eye' by Niven/Pournelle, not Asimov?

....I need to add an item to my list: 'Get out more. '

😀

Mine was definitely a Promteric problem.

Turned up for the exam to be told the test centre was closed for 2 weeks for maintenance.

The test centre had informed Prometric, but...

Thanks Gail

I figured as much, but thought I'd ask anyway.

Should have known better than to schedule a test for Apr 1 I suppose.

:crazy:

TravisDBA (9/26/2012)

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Good article Steve! I have personaly done this in the past and I have found there are three basic things that can drive the overwhelming success of doing this...

I've always had a healthy technical bookshelf at home, but the problem has always been having to (remember to) cart the books from place to place. Especially challenging as...

sqlnaive (12/15/2011)

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I am database owner for a database around 800 GB. we have auditing tables created for each of the table and triggers populate data in those tables. Currently we...

I had a similar requirement last year, but with the added complexity of requiring encryption of the files to protect them in transit between 2 server facilities (LAN bandwidth was...

Paul White (6/23/2009)

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Sadly, in this case, a full-file backup and partial restore strategy would not work. The problem is with the partitioning (assuming Enterprise Edition there) over multiple filegroups....

PaulB (6/21/2009)

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:blink: Let me ask just one question... how are you planing to proceed when one of the customers ask you to restore the database lets say... as it was...

Hi

I had cause to investigate SAN technology last year from the HA/DR aspect rather than performance.

However, performance was the aspect that I ended up testing quite heavily just to be...