I have to agree with Jesse. Not once have I ever moved into a position where I knew everything. That would make me think...

I've been told I am to modest

Or atleast give the chancers an idea on how to bullsh1t their way through interviews better...

It’s all relative.

I have met my fair share of so called DBA’s.

Due to the position I was hiring for, I...

I have to disagree with that.

When restoring the MDF file are near instantly created.

The only thing I can think of is that it creates the file, in my case 110GB,...

worked it out - the logs get overwritten in the backup directory.

The first log was not overwritten because the following day 9am backup did not run.

Waiting for the tapes...

32K! Like I said - I was king.

One thing that makes me laugh today:

When I had my ZX Spectrum (Upgraded to 32K) I got bored waiting for the games to...

I got mine with 16k and a friend had one with 32k. I "borrowed" his extra 16k and added it into mine. I WAS KING

The tables are a bit crude, I know.

They just for testing...

The tables are joined by Ident. CP1 is "things that were bought" and...

Interesting about it outperforming the intel. Maybe with the same memory it'll be slower or at worse, match.

Think I'll try convince my bos to buy a dual AMD so we...

Rick, how does the AMD compare to Intel performance wise? Why did you go the AMD route? Cost?

Was really great reading. I can relate to everything said.....

Yes, it reads an extent at a time but how does it write a changed row? Does it only write back that page with the changed data or does it...

A simple reboot.....

I found a lot of people on google groups talking about this. A couple of them said it was a conflict between the cache on the controller and...

I did run a checkAlloc but with out the switch. It returned no errors. Will run it this evening.

There's nothing out of the ordinary in the event log other than...