Brandie Tarvin (2/24/2011)

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That's a good point, Tom. But is "enemy" a good word choice...

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...

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