I believe that SQL Server should finally catch up to (or exceed) Oracle and DB2, both of which allow the DBA to select a block size on a granular basis...

I would suggest including more warnings about the missing index DMV's flaws; suggesting duplicate or overlapping indexes, suggesting indexes that won't actually help, and so on.

I may have missed it,...

bopeavy (7/18/2011)

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Hey with the technology we have today nobody should be getting away with stealing a laptop. My work actually have a lojack type system and had one stolden. They...

Jayanth_Kurup (7/17/2011)

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Encryption of data is purely the organizations purview, if a company feels the data residing on laptops and tapes need to be encrypted then they should implement it without...

We monitor the basics available for instance level information (including SQL and OS versions, packet and disk errors), including a wide variety of information from sys.dm_os_performance_counters: (re)compiles, total batch requests,...

Two kinds of restore tests for drive images:

1) Lower risk to your production system, but more likely to show quirks that wouldn't be there if restoring to the source hardware:...

techzone12 (7/5/2011)

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What is the best Ghosting/imaging software in your opinion? How do they compare. I am not full time IT, so ease of use is a key. What I am...

Jeff Moden (7/2/2011)

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None of these restrictions or limitations are new to us old farts. 😀 The only real difference that I can see between the Cloud and an old...

opc.three (6/30/2011)

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Let's take a step back...

You are worried about protecting financial data. You go on to say that you cannot change the database schema.

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> What are you trying to...

VMWare allows a wide variety of tuning; if you don't know how your guest is tuned, and what else is on the host (and whether it's being moved among hosts...

Craig Farrell (6/27/2011)

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The DBA: ... Has little knowledge of what any particular database actually does other than pushing data out to something that requests it, and almost no intimate...

There's definitely something special about an introductory session where they show photographs of horses and buggies outside the corporate offices, and say "This is how we started", then go through...

Setting compliance aside, is even broaching the subject of ancient software and...

opc.three (6/27/2011)

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No question to anything you said...but when you have to support Idea because a business partner asks you to then guess what, sometimes you will support Idea. That goes...

opc.three (6/27/2011)

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Elliott Whitlow (6/27/2011)

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Agreed. It was not specifically for the benefit OP, but for me 😀 I would not implement the component as an Enterprise solution unless it could do...