I think Kevin Lawry gets it about right with his article. I think he only mentions re-plumbing to a new db as a side benefit, which is about right in...

An interesting discussion - it seems to raise a little heat!

I would agree that a gentle test (without belligerence, and on a point which you would absolutely reasonably expect the...

I'll cheerfully admit I would not even have a clue how to find out what the problems might be that require $2m/day worh of computing, let alone how to submit...

Darn tootin' mdaughtree.

I'm generally reticent in coming forward, and always thought others knew more than me (they probably did). Having been encouraged at my current job, and listened to, we...

I'd agree OS max is the best response, but there is little ambiguity in terms of the fact that cores in the question definitely means logical processors.

Most normally I use kill restoring a staging database or similar when some slack alice developer has left open a dead connection from Visual Studio or perhaps SSMS or somesuch....

One of my favourite advocates of an evidence based approach is Ben Goldacre and his Bad Science [/url]blog. He is a doctor, so fairly focused on clinical trials and interpretation...

I definintely take it as a sign of strength or character to hold your hand up when wrong. This is a sign of experience and confidence in your abilities.

Sadly it...

I will avoid getting into anything partisan here, but it would be really nice to have some politicians that are prepared to use evidence based policy, as opposed to the...

Though I was a little disappointed that it could not have been A, B, A as well, after indexgate, I did manage to get the idea fairly directly.

Did I miss the bit where it said 'Also express your answer in Base 8' or something? 😀

I think you have to get some perspective about this - if we reported every time we actually got some kind of attack, we would be registering reports approximately every...

Yeah, I was a little mislead by Ron's fine series on transactions - fortunately I did remember the message of checking the severity and got it right, after lousing up...

I will happily join the cynics here and say we will implement HA after serious costly downtime. It doesn't seem to be terribly likely as our team have rarely lost...

I did try using passphrases myself at some point (http://xkcd.com/936/) however unfortunately when you get to that length it typically takes 3 tries on a good day to type the...