I think it would be useful to have a Comments "parameter" for the various create and alter DDL commands. If it could handle XML, that would be great. ...

The editorial refers to "this article", but it doesn't appear to have a link to the article referenced, so I can't judge that.

One of the key problems with information is...

Do you have a schedule that doesn't have times/days picked out or something like that?

CirquedeSQLeil (3/12/2010)

---

When do we...

Good luck and fast recovery.

You can generate a lot of it programmatically.

Take a look at the definitions of the holidays. Most of them can be handled in SQL pretty easily.

Some are dead easy,...

It might at least give you a hint.

Have you checked for a blocking process?

Or don't even know where to look to find out if they have a good backup.

I'm assuming you've checked the error logs for more details. What did those have?

I've used it for large files, but not quite that large. Worked very well for multi-meg files.

Can the query be broken down into smaller pieces to see what's taking so long? Like, if it joins multiple tables, query each table separately and see if one...

CirquedeSQLeil (3/12/2010)

---

GSquared (3/12/2010)

---

If we did the "Delusionally Thinks He's a DBA" contest, there would certainly be a lot of competition for that one.

But I think if we had a "Please...

If we did the "Delusionally Thinks He's a DBA" contest, there would certainly be a lot of competition for that one.

But I think if we had a "Please God I...

I use traces for that kind of thing.

When I need to escape from my cubical and get my mind out of burnout mode, I take a walk around the block. Sometimes takes a few laps. ...