There was an article here at SSC back in early Feb that presented a suite of diagnostic reports. A lot of great stuff was in there including the SQL for...

hardware is so cheap and even cheap 1U servers scale up to some insane configurations i don't see the point of virtualizing SQL.

At my last company we did it to...

It occurs on reports where there are no data sources used (like a REPORTS ARE UNAVAILABLE report we put up) and the ChARINDEX functions both return 0.

To fix it...

Can you explain how much important it is for a DBA to know about system administration/HW/Servers? and why ?

Does this also mean that an IT person has to change/leave IT...

Nothing is jack of All AND nothing is master of ALL.

One has to be more specific and specialist in one area.

Well, no actually. I mean, if your goal...

>>As far as industry, I guess that's more circumstantial, at least in my experience. I didn't choose an industry to work for, but it is difficult to change industry, because...

Every hundred years, whether they need it or not. 😀

Actually I don't think we have a standard for that yet. SSL Certs tell you when to attend to them,...

Best parks: Fenway, Wrigley, (the former) Yankee Stadium, Camden Yards

Worst parks: Fenway, Wrigley, (the former) Yankee Stadium, Three Rivers, METRODOME!

Others: (Old) Busch Stadium, Tiger Stadium, Shea, Kaufman Stadium

There are lots...

I've always felt you still have to see and hit the ball and that's not something steroids improve. That being said you do have to wonder if they contribute...

Ah, baseball. Big Twins fan here.

Alomar will go in next year, probably with Bert B. There are a bunch of grumpy old guys out there who have a notion that...

Requirements for me start with a business description in business terms so that no bad assumptions get made about how tools work or what data will or won't be included...

I don't see this as something that can be easily managed by simple GUI tools. There's so many different ways you can store data, backup data, and restore data that...

I think half the problem with Sharepoint is that many companies implementing it have absolutely no idea why they want to implement it.

Amen! After all the architects at...

We were looking into developing a lot of Sharepoint stuff for a couple customers last year. I looked around and decided it wasn't a great platform right now, given...

From MSDN someplace:

The ReportViewer Web server control, when used with server reports, provides an ActiveX print control that you can use instead of browser print functionality.

Since Firefox is not going...