Interesting comments all. My thoughts on some of them:

- It's not about whether MVP's are paid (they are not), but whether PASS should pay speakers or stick with their current...

I agree with your architect, the time saved is worth the minimal performance hit. Abstraction layers like these are very much worth doing. Standarding data access is a key concept...

Not exactly an obvious problem!

Im going to go against the grain and say that I don't really care for the solution (though I appreciate what you were trying to accomplish). In general I dont think...

If you omit the /Settings and all past that, does the first part work ok? Verified that the path you have for the ini is correct?

We do have and use VPC in some cases, especially multi server scenarios. In fact, I can build VPC images quickly using the RIS server and a specially floppy driver...

I also received a question about whether both implementations guaranteed unique. I asked Steve to follow up with MS to get a 'good' answer, and Paul Randal from the storage...

To clarify, sequential guids CAN be guessed easily compared to trying to do the same for the standard GUID. Thus the security risk if you expose them to users.

First, thank you to everyone who read and also posted a comment! I think I could probably frame it a bit better now, but I have an older article that...

That's a lovely feature all around.

Thanks for the follow up Bart - nice to see vendors monitoring discussions about their products.

Thank you for the kind praise and the feedback - which will definitely help me make sure the next couple articles are as well received as this one.

I would...

We like to think that authors add value to a process over what may already be documented in BOL or elsewhere on MSDN. Occasionally we will re-run articles that have...

I will try to work on the dll error when I have time, busy week for me.

David, we'd enjoy having the script all code built into an article, preface with...

Yelena, I suspect you have portions of a beta version remaining. You shouldn't have to move your dll, the 'right' way is to set the reference...see next comment.

John, you're correct,...