This thread provides a place hang out, gripe, and pad our post counts while we wait for...

A likely reason is that SQL Server hasn't needed more memory than the 3 GB is is currently using. It will not allocate memory until it has a need...

Greg Charles (1/28/2009)

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What's funny about this thread is if the OP and...

GSquared (1/28/2009)

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I had Babel Fish translate it to Spanish, and then back to English, and this is what I got:

"The mind readers we are not. If you cannot little arranged...

Ninja's_RGR'us (1/28/2009)

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Hey Micheal, do you realize that this thread alone has more posts...

This thread is horrible, like a bad car crash, but I just can't look away:

http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic643690-19-1.aspx

You can use the Windows Performance Monitor to look a disk IO and SQL Server IO.

Don’t forget to throw in some random blind links to porn sites.

Your real problem is not being able to pin data in memory. It’s the need to push all the data in the database to the client as fast as...

Matt Miller (1/28/2009)

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Michael Valentine Jones (1/27/2009)

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Going by 120 yards by 50 yards for an American football field (100 yards goal-to-goal plus 2x10 yard end zones by 50 yards wide)

select Football_Fields_per_Million_SQ_Ft...

You will probably need more bandwidth to be able to backup over the Internet and need some hosting service to provide a server you can send the data to. ...

Charles Kincaid (1/28/2009)

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The other day I was doing a search on Testing Methods. I was floored when an article I was reading linked to an item on my own...

It can be a very convoluted path back to the original source on the web. Computer technology makes the act of taking someone else's work trivial, so it removes...

For a discussion of this subject, with sample code and tests for two other methods, look at this link:

MIN/MAX Across Multiple Columns

http://www.sqlteam.com/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=86906

Have you considered using a tape backup in conjunction with a service that picks up, stores tapes offsite, and returns them on a rotating basis?