Interesting question.

Unhelpful explanation with no reference to documentation. I was unable to find anything useful except http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ronang/archive/2007/08/13/db-pro-power-tools-including-t-sql-analysis-dependency-viewing-and-more-refactoring-options.aspx%5Dthis (and a repost of it elswhere in the msdn website) and...

Steve Jones - SSC Editor (2/23/2011)

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GSquared (2/22/2011)

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What I was asking was: Did Steve mean the question to be about legitimately protecting code, or did he mean to ask about people...

Interesting question.

Using .NET (Framework 2 or later) it can also be done using SMO, there are public functions to get and set the (default) backup directory. Documented for SQL...

SQLkiwi (2/22/2011)

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Steve Jones - SSC Editor (2/22/2011)

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On a similar debating note, does anyone know of code in SQL Server that's worth protecting with CLR, obfuscation, or any hassles of encrypting?...

I dug around a bit and came across a couple of interesting papers from about 4 years ago (I guess I missed them then because I was up to my...

Steve Jones - SSC Editor (2/22/2011)

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You might read this to better understand. I believe this is the stripe alignment of each particular drive as seen by Windows. So potentially the...

UMG Developer (2/22/2011)

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Tom,

Thanks for the extra information, that is very useful. One question I have is about the stripe size: Is that the stripe size on each individual spindle, or...

Richard Warr (2/22/2011)

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I remember buying that in Boots with my 40p pocket money. I would say thanks for the memory but I was kind...

Lynn Pettis (2/21/2011)

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MaricopaJoe (2/21/2011)

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I agree the questions are more basic. But this is due to the business side thinking that 'anyone' that has computer can be a dba.

Case in...

zephyr

(Because I love my Ifrit with the light brown hair....)

GilaMonster (2/21/2011)

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GSquared (2/21/2011)

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jcrawf02 (2/21/2011)

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Jeff Moden (2/21/2011)

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jcrawf02 (2/21/2011)

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Jeff Moden (2/21/2011)

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WayneS (2/20/2011)

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For those going to SQL Saturday #69 in Philly, I'll be presenting @ 2:15. I'm getting pretty excited about this!

Click here...

tilew-948340 (2/19/2011)

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If you want to get back faster on your feet after a disk failure, I would think that RAID 10 is the better choice,

but you don't argue about...

Peter Trast (2/21/2011)

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Depending on hardware and the application, RAID 5 can perform BETTER than RAID 1/0. EMC has done benchmarking on their Clariions (which many of you have) that shows...

mill

Good question, but the explanation says that WIndows 2008 always succeeds in doing the alignment needed. This is not correct. Windows 2008 will align the partition by using...