a lot of these freedoms only work in smaller younger companies. once a company matures and has to hire more people things change. i heard a lot of things changed...

first PC was a cheapo AST with everything integrated. it used to play Wing Commander Privateer so slow i thought it was normal until i played it on a real...

my big experience with linux

we used to run netbackup on Solaris to backup our SQL servers. last year we bought a new server and tape robot. original plan was to...

mtillman-921105 (8/20/2010)

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alen teplitsky (8/20/2010)

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been building on and off since the 1990's but it's not really fun anymore with everything being integrated and things like the computer being quiet being more...

paul.knibbs (8/23/2010)

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another reason i was thinking iMac is that it's UNIX and i have an almost 3 year old son and thought it would be better to start him on...

been building on and off since the 1990's but it's not really fun anymore with everything being integrated and things like the computer being quiet being more important than a...

on our 64bit servers with 32GB of RAM i set it as 32GB - 64GB and don't remember the last time it grew past 32GB

i know someone who used to set it with...

looking to buy a new PC as well

I've thought of an iMac but still thinking about it. downsides are flaky OS X support for Flash and gaming. the upside is...

nice article

i tried using it today and the only problem was that my source data had hours and minutes and it would have taken too long to figure out a...

Stanley Chan (8/18/2010)

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ta.bu.shi.da.yu (8/18/2010)

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I know where this is going. If...

it's probably the SAN. i've seen supposedly high speed SAN's misconfigured where they perform a lot slower than regular server disks.

in the end the hard drives in the SAN are...

chris.stuart (4/19/2010)

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Jonathan Mallia (4/16/2010)

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if you have any indexes, disable or drop them, and recreate afterwards.

Also, do the same from any triggers.

Furthermore, set the database recovery mode to bulk logged and...

we're on per server/CAL licensing and we do have parallelism disabled. i played with it on another server but it's something you have to set right. it's hard to replicate...

http://appshopper.com

search for SQL and it will come back with a bunch of apps. i even bought a SQL 2008 book that i read on the train. and some of the...