Andy,

Thank you for sharing that, most useful. Had a very similar problem with an RLL, but with Enterprise Manager/MMC on a test machine. This was very easy to pinpoint, as...

Completely agree with the points made about security David, it's usually what you don't know about that the latest hack will take advantage of. Recognising that, whilst at the same...

Great piece of detective work Steve 😀

We've a similar problem on a prod. server which occurs once every 4-6 weeks and is proving very elusive to nail down, so may...

Strangely enough, I've had the same experience with Java based tools. We have a very, very expensive risk management product from a major UK based consultancy which is appallingly slow,...

Thanks for bringing this to everyone's attention Andy. I've been using Dependency Walker on and off for the last six months to help developers spot problems in a tricky install...

Good advice Brian, lots of things I'd not picked up on before about exam technique which will certainly help me to focus when I come to do my MCPs. Thank...

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As a project manager you work with the tools that you have. If you have someone on your team who claims extensive...

Yep, seen a lot of this sort of thing. Comes down to a single issue: Managers who are ignorant of the development process let developers who know nothing about databases...

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It's much easier to just write the code in the development IDE (where you are in the first place). The other complaint...

Crikey, you've cut some work out for yourself Steve. However, I think you have covered all bases with regard to what I'd personally like to know about a product before...

Excellent advice Brian. Particularly liked the point about removing BuiltIn\Administrators - we find that the vast majority of our problems over the last six months have been caused by knowledgeable...

Lockouts would be good. Seems mad to me that a developer can't get directly into an NT server on the network without asking for trouble, but can set up a...

Definitely better to use a password, even a simple one, rather than no password. My employer does not have a strong password policy, but before I arrived, a high...

Steve,

I think David's idea for getting us out here in the DBA community to review products is a good idea too. It would have the advantage of taking some of...

Carl,

Overall, that's as good as you can possibly get. You have a very healthy table without any problems, based on that DBCC output.

You've got 7973 extents in your table, which...