I guess I'm a bit more of a commoner, but what stuck in my head is the quote from Galaxy Quest, "Never give up... Never surrender!" 😀

I can't resist trying...

I fully understand where the author is coming from. The IT department where I work recently did SWOT analysis and both the infrastructure group and development group had me...

Ugh, missed it because that number isn't the max "size" of log files, it's the max number of pages.

Carpe Datum (6/19/2014)

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...the answer illustrates one of the worse traits in IT admins generally - give the user the minimum we decide they need rather than what they ask for...

and of course I read "This user is granted access to the database via a domain group" as the newbie had already checked the permissions of the group on the...

Something else to consider... which is a condition that's been growing over time, is with the ubiquity of the internet, the mentality of the modern programmer is "get something out...

In some ways the comparison to bridge building is a good one and in others it's a bad one. If the company that was contracted to do the concrete...

Andy Warren (4/14/2014)

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Chris, I'm not trying for absurb, though maybe it seems that way (or is that way) at times. I'm trying to write challenging questions about fairly common topics...

I'm glad I'm not the only one who saw that the foreign key and the data check were going in opposite directions and tried to answer accordingly. I have...

Yes! It's the one thing I miss the most from my Oracle days was being able to have a simple way to save stored procedure /...

I remember there was one company I was a consultant at just 7 years ago...

PHYData DBA (12/9/2013)

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Jeff Moden (12/9/2013)

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Consider a daily data file import, 60k rows. The data is loaded, of course, row by agonizing row, into a temp table. The mighty DBA, with...

I've seen a number of people who compare the Hekaton features to the old school SQL Server 2000 and earlier OLTP methodology of readers block writers and writers block readers,...

While there may be some SQL Server knockoff someday doesn't mean it will be the end of SQL Server from Microsoft. Case in point, there has been a system...

Yep... got me! That's how...