Was it sad to anyone else to realize you didn't actually doubt that Microsoft would/could do this?

😀

sjsubscribe (4/5/2010)

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mike.styers (4/5/2010)

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Slippery Slope I think.

Once you break out what each IT service costs, all it takes is a member of upper mgmt to say, "Look what were paying for...

CirquedeSQLeil (4/5/2010)

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I like the idea of transparency. If you are a consultant for a company - there is a degree of transparency there that is far greater than if...

CirquedeSQLeil (4/5/2010)

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Nostalgic yes - But I have found that a bunch of mine were unreadable after several years in storage. I think I still have some, but most were...

Steve Jones - Editor (4/5/2010)

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A couple years ago someone gave out a complete copy of W95 on floppy disks as a white elephant gift at Christmas. That was pretty funny.

I...

Steve Jones - Editor (4/5/2010)

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You still have a package!?!?!?!?!

Geek alert! Whoop!

I don't think I had good bootable images until W2K or XP even. Seems like I always had some rigamarole...

I will check the packaging when I...

Paul White NZ (4/5/2010)

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Steve Jones - Editor (4/5/2010)

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The short-sightedness on the side of the business definitely occurs. They need things done, and I understand that. However I think the overhead...

sjsubscribe (4/5/2010)

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This cost-based accounting (or charge backs) have their role in some limited circumstances, but most eventually fail under their own weight. The primary reason in my experience has been...

Paul White NZ (4/3/2010)

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CirquedeSQLeil (4/3/2010)

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If you query a large table joined to another table that does not have proper referential integrity in the database, data accuracy is thrown out the...

Ric Sierra (3/24/2010)

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vk-kirov (3/23/2010)

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PWDENCRYPT is a hash function, which means it's a one-way function. Once hashed, data cannot be restored. With...

Ralph Hightower (4/1/2010)

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Ah Steve,

You had to spoil the joke with a disclaimer.

Of course, this is also an April Fool's joke and is in no way based on reality. It's entirely...

Steve Jones - Editor (3/31/2010)

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I'm not sure MS makes money on training. If they do, it's so little that it doesn't register on the annual report. A quick scan through...

What version of Visual Studio are you running? What edition?

Depending on what type of load you are looking to spread - you can look at partitioning and/or federation. SQl doesn't have something that's an exact equivalent to RAC,...