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  • RE: The Best Computer

    Probably the most influential piece of technology in recent memory, is the CNN Political Map. Anyone who watched coverage up to and on the U.S. election on CNN would...

    Gaby________________________________________________________________"In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are not." - Albert Einstein

  • RE: The Best Computer

    Chris Campbell (12/19/2008)


    OOOHHH! I have to add one on the subject of "portrayed realistically"...

    Jeff Goldblum's laptop in Independence Day. He was able to tap into totally alien computers...

    Gaby________________________________________________________________"In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are not." - Albert Einstein

  • RE: Confused on memory

    1) if 32 bit you would also need /PAE in the boot.ini file, right?

    2) IIRC Lock pages in memory is only useful for SQL Server Enterprise Edition.

    not sure about the...

    Gaby________________________________________________________________"In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are not." - Albert Einstein

  • RE: Database Backup query

    atulkumar2 (12/2/2008)


    Hi Rajeev,

    The best you can achive by using the third party tool. Some of them are as LiteSpeed by Quest Software and SQLBackup by Radegate.

    I am not promoting any...

    Gaby________________________________________________________________"In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are not." - Albert Einstein

  • RE: Confused on memory

    Read the previously posted articles, but a quick summary:

    1. If you have 64-bit windows, skip this step and go to step 2. If you have 32-bit Windows, right...

    Gaby________________________________________________________________"In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are not." - Albert Einstein

  • RE: Recommended path for advanced training?

    Russell.Taylor (12/3/2008)


    The certification route is really only effective to learn the basics of what is possible, I now know this as I am well on my way to finishing the...

    Gaby________________________________________________________________"In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are not." - Albert Einstein

  • RE: Recommended path for advanced training?

    GilaMonster (12/2/2008)


    Jeff Moden (12/2/2008)


    I had several folks say they were Ninja's in SQL Server and one even claimed to be a "9 out of 10" right on his...

    Gaby________________________________________________________________"In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are not." - Albert Einstein

  • RE: Recommended path for advanced training?

    matt stockham (12/1/2008)


    Certification (or working towards it) is useful in that it will give you some exposure to aspects of SQL that you might never touch otherwise ... service broker,...

    Gaby________________________________________________________________"In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are not." - Albert Einstein

  • RE: Mini-Me

    Steve Jones - Editor (11/26/2008)


    Maybe we'll get an article out of Gaby sometime 😉

    Working on it, trust me. 😀 Will start with scheduling backups and general maintenance. I hope...

    Gaby________________________________________________________________"In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are not." - Albert Einstein

  • RE: Please show the certification chart of MCDBA

    guptaajay1985 (11/25/2008)


    Thanx for suggestion...

    One thing ,Is 70-447 exam for MCITP?

    Check the website.

    Gaby________________________________________________________________"In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are not." - Albert Einstein

  • RE: Please show the certification chart of MCDBA

    guptaajay1985, one link is http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/bb291022.aspx (also accessible from the main microsoft.com page with some simple searches)

    MCDBA is dead/being retired. The certification track, at least for SQL 2005 (no more...

    Gaby________________________________________________________________"In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are not." - Albert Einstein

  • RE: Mini-Me

    Ninja's_RGR'us (11/24/2008)


    Hey Gaby, any way you can zip a backup of that DB here and post it in the forums?

    It would be difficult to do so for a couple reasons....

    Gaby________________________________________________________________"In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are not." - Albert Einstein

  • RE: Mini-Me

    Steve Jones - Editor (11/24/2008)


    Good to see that many people build their own "mini-mes" to help them out.

    And some interesting solutions. I might look to modify some of our systems...

    Gaby________________________________________________________________"In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are not." - Albert Einstein

  • RE: Used and free space in data files

    Here's a script I wrote a while back to make sp_spaceused a bit more table friendly.

    http://www.sqlservercentral.com/scripts/sp_spaceused/64271/[/url]

    use YOUR_DATABASE_HERE -- change as needed

    set nocount on

    declare @dbsize bigint,

    @logsize bigint,

    ...

    Gaby________________________________________________________________"In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are not." - Albert Einstein

  • RE: Profiler Trace running

    Mr J (11/23/2008)


    Yeah, a profiler trace is running on the server and i wanna from which machine its running from.

    In SQL Server Management Studio, open the Management folder, and select...

    Gaby________________________________________________________________"In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are not." - Albert Einstein

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