that's nothing, yesterday i got a new job as a DBA. troubleshooting an exec's iphone. only because i used to have one

don't know how it's going to work with FLAC, but back in the 1990's when i tried this with mp3's the result was horrible. i think it was better with...

how are you connecting to your home stereo? PC straight to receiver?

for $200 to $300 or so you can buy a set of wifi/bluetooth speakers and just use itunes...

nice article, going to have to look at it. right now i have perfmon running on a server dumping data to a central database where i run reports from. this...

The media family on device 'd:\xxxxxx.bak' is incorrectly formed

this is the error i get. i get out of the db restore and it says restoring

tried to stop sql, rename the...

buy the DL 380 models unless you have some huge VLDB's. the 500's series have better CPU's and cost way too much since they are meant for the largest companies

for...

soon none, it's going off support this year

nice thing about MS products is you don't need to buy expensive support contracts and the price per incident is super cheap at...

few weeks ago i sold my wife's old iphone 3G and my old 3GS for $400. i'm on the HTC Inspire now. cost me $20 at costco.

found a Target in...

for huge shrinks i've noticed that doing it in small chunks is usually a lot faster than in one

i've had this on simple logged recovery models as well. in our case reinitializing replication usually solves it

i played with RAID 10 a few years ago. no scientific testing, but the performance didn't wow me. and the department that owned that server got sick of constantly buying...

tweetdeck on via the Chrome app is nice because you can set it to display the same columns on multiple computers

just got the ipad 2 and use it for work email, kindle/ibooks/nook reader and listening to music.

a lot easier to check my SSRS emails on the ipad than to boot...

is it better to use a non-clustered index in a large delete? i thought it was the opposite since you would be deleting data that is logically together in the...

i was going to try this, but i don't think it will work very well with a non-clustered PK that is an identity column. and how long is the insert...