BTW-It's not Microsoft running the contest...it's a company called WINTER CORPORATION. Here's the actual link:

http://www.wintercorp.com/VLDB/2003_TopTen_Survey/TopTenProgram.html

-SQLBill

Here's the problem:

You can't overwrite just a part of the file, it has to be the whole thing. But, everytime you append a backup to the backup file the date...

Thanks to all of you for the input.

I am working on baselining my server as suggested. I already have a basic baseline, but I'm going to improve on it.

I have...

I'm not sure yet, but knowing this guy they are going to be power/memory hogs.

Problem is that I may have already lost out...I've heard that he's already bought the application...

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He was in intell while he was in.

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I can neither confirm nor deny the possibility...

I was in the U.S. Air Force for 20 years. Retired September 2000. If I told you what I did I would have to corrupt all your databases

Scroll to the side. Sometimes (like in this case) the text extends to the side longer than other threads. It's kind of like word wrap didn't work.

-SQLBill

There isn't a way to see how the others did YET. They are working on it. There aren't any other tests but there is the Question of the Day (QOD).

Are...

But you can't cluster Standard Edition, so all of the instances have to be the Enterprise Edition.

-SQLBill

As Dale said, there's nothing wrong with waiting. I got married when I was 38. My first marriage, my wife's second. She had two wonderful daughters by her first marriage....

I've noticed that it not just gender that is 'ignored'. There's no 'picking' on people based on what country they are from.

Everyone on this site is treated based on what...

Antares,

I agree that it's probably not the problem. But I had trouble with my databases until I realized that loading SP3 on one computer did not update ALL instances on...

I've gotten a lot of use out of Ken Henderson's The Guru's Guide to Transact-SQL. What I really like about it is he documents a bunch of 'Undocumented' functions and...

I'm coming up on my 44th birthday. I married late in life and will celebrate my 5th anniversary in November. I have two wonderful daughters (20 and 15). Legally they...

Just a question-what VERSION are each of the SQL Servers???? Could it be an issue with different service packs?

-SQLBill