Yes, it's an interesting link, I first noticed in a posting by Gert Drapers.

Jonathan, is there a general recommendation as what is considered "best" block size? 4k? 8k? Or something...

First off, severity level 1 is not the most severe you can get. Actually it's an informational level.

For contacting MS, this might help: http://support.microsoft.com/gp/profsup

Though I think, depending on...

There are also beta newsgroups where you can ask about this.

'SELECT coid FROM Nov_BusinessProfile BProfile  WHERE (BProfile.BP_BusinessNature LIKE ''%1,[ ]%'')'

Note the double quotes. You need to double quote all your LIKE criterias. This should do it assuming you're executing this...

Post the code you use along with the error you get. This will be more descriptive than any narrative.

Yes, whenever you can use the INFORMATION_SCHEMA views instead of directly querying the system tables, you should do so.

And yes, SQL Server 2005...

SQL Server will always try to return the rows in the fastest possible way. This might be the order of the clustered index (if one is present), but with a...

Yeah, he's back again!!!

...throwing in something pseudo-thread relevant...

Have a look here for RAID5: http://www.baarf.com/

Money, I guess

I think, I've mentioned, that I don't have experience with 7.0, right? 

Honestly, no clue what happened.

Yes, that sounds now a bit different from your original question. At least as I have understood it. Anyway, for sp_user_counter, I guess you have had a look at BOL...

Yes, it does! Thank you.

Take it easy. Did you really think he would send a book?

I hear in Germany they get more than this (I like in the UK by the way).

See my second(?!?) reply in this thread