I could definitely see Surface impacting the conference room, especially when you are trying to engage in a working session amongst technology folks and subject matter experts. Even a...

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On that note, I've been making my own list of possible coffee-table computer applications:

- Photo Album (interactive digital picture frame-like app)

- Family...

The "blank screen" and "blinking cursor" means that you are successfully connecting to either port.  I'm guessing that this is not a SQL Server problem and instead is an issue...

I'm guessing everyone's definition of "busy" is different.  The "revised" option A is still the best solution.  Just try to pick a server chassis that's going to have open drive...

As best as I can tell, you'll need to do this in 3 passes.  Each is a fairly simple INSERT (new rows in table 2), UPDATE (existing rows that are...

Sounds like an application was installed on the old server as well.

Ignore indexes for now.  While very useful, you can get yourself into some problems if you don't use indexes correctly.  Your user table should have the user_id column set as...

Unfortunately, SQL 2000 is not supported on Vista.  Even if it was, I don't think EM can connect to a SQL2005 instance.

I agree.  Most people don't see this problem either because of the monthly Windows Update processes or they are not making extensive use of CLR integration in their database implementations.

One question: How many...

Most typically, we've implemented RAID 1 for OS+logs and RAID 5 for data.  Too many places don't have access to SAN due to cost, and SANs require their own set...