it sounds like you have a current server but old hard disks. any reason you are using U320 disks and not the new SAS? We use HP and it's hard...

what he said

you can also do the same thing in VMWare and probably Hyper-V if you have server hardware at home

my experience with MS is that their people are experts in a small area of the product. if you're a PFE i don't think anyone is going to shoot you...

for windows server i've seen separate x32/64 keys on MSDN. I think the last time i tried to use a x64 key on a x32 install and it didn't work

jts_2003 (12/18/2009)

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I think with R2 just around the cormer, I'd wait for the first SP for that before upgrading. After all, will Microsoft release SPs and CUs for non R2...

David.Poole (12/18/2009)

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The article was mainly about standard edition.

The killer feature for enterprise users is the ability to switch partitions on replicated tables. This means that with careful design the...

downloaded it again, thank you

check into selling it in the iTunes App Store. I recently found a lot of SQL books there for a lot less than the Amazon price....

great article

no need for it, but into the briefcase it goes in case i'll need it in the future

nice post

there was a similar article a few weeks ago that i extended for the same thing. big difference is i import sysjobs and jobhistory daily for all monitored servers...

i like seeing...

good podcast

where i work most of the apps are internally developed. I even joke sometimes that it's like Quake point releases in that there are a lot of small updates...

this is pretty good

i just finished debugging a backup report system that uses SSRS to display the data and monitoring jobs is next on the list

http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/SQL+Server+2005/61887/

i found this article that...

thx

Looks like it worked

working on deploying this now. working out some data integrity issues and i'm not using the built in reports. made my own. here is an example for any databases that...

it takes me 5 minutes to eject a tape when the guy comes from the off-site vendor. i even have a separate policy in netbackup so that all monthly backups...