Not sure I follow. I thought it followed the same sort of terms as the Enterprise CAL licenses in 2008? E.g. you buy CALS for the number of users who...

Whilst it's not an absolute requirement to have matching hardware for servers in the cluster, it is recommended and makes configuration easier in general. I've never heard of people using...

It would make answering questions on the forum easier. We could just patronisingly point everyone to the homepage for Oracle documentation in...

bleroy (12/4/2012)

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For Information purposes only, copy/pasted your SQL and then added FROM dual; at the end to run it in Oracle and got the right answer without any further manipulations:

4020.73315

(running...

SQL Server will eventually use all the memory allocated to it. It doesn't ever really de-allocate memory, it will just move the oldest cached data out as it needs to...

No. Backups do...

Assuming that the growth to 36GB was an unusual activity or was caused when it was in FULL Recovery Model and TLog backups weren't being run, then yes, a one...

I seem to remember there are circumstances after an initial install where you have to open Internet Explorer with the "Run as Administrator" option, then browse to the server locally...

sys.dm_exec_query_stats

Returns aggregate performance statistics for cached query plans in SQL Server 2012. The view contains one row per query statement within the cached plan, and the lifetime of the rows...

Thanks Gail. Added to the list!

Just finished Proven Guilty (Dresden Files) by Jim Butcher. Really enjoying this series. It's not high fiction, by any means, but as an easy reading escape whilst work's hectic it...

I'm not sure if anything has changed in 2012, but in 2008, BIDS/Visual Studio will only run debug in 32-bit, so you need the 32-bit drivers installed as well to...

Brandie Tarvin (10/3/2012)

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HowardW (10/2/2012)

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Anyone else eagerly awaiting this?

Have to say, getting increasingly irate about e-book pricing. Why do I have to pay 50p more, given all the costs of printing,...

ChrisM@Work (10/2/2012)

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Not quite as eagerly as I would have been 10 years or so ago when Banks was setting new ground with his Culture series....

L' Eomot Inversé (10/2/2012)

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Not me. Banks is over-rated and over-priced. I'll wait until I can pick up a (paper) copy for £2 or less in a charity shop,...