Yeah, that one is clearly going to take some teeth pulling... or...

You have to give us some details on this. It's very normal to take a database backup while inserts are occurring without getting a single error. If you're getting one,...

I'm assuming this is a language issue, but I'm not getting through. Anyone have any ideas?

Monitoring for what? To ensure up time? To observe performance? To see who is going to access your system? I'm sorry, but each of these will have different requirements and...

GilaMonster (12/21/2009)

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Alvin Ramard (12/21/2009)

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You're not missing...

Just to follow on to what Gail said, and hopefully reinforce it, index hints, any query hint, should be avoided. More often than not, fixing either the query or the...

When you say backup, do you mean that you have a script that looks similar to this:

BACKUP DATABASE mydatabasename TO DISK = '\\someserver\someshare\mydatbasename.bak'

Or are you doing something else entirely?

Are you learning for yourself or for your business? If your business, learn what they're using. For yourself, go to 2008. Anything you learn there is not wasted, it transfers...

You need to provide a little more information for what you're looking for. Monitoring what? There are lots of things you could monitor on the server, performance, access, data, and...

I'll be working both weeks. As a matter of fact, our job in these two weeks is to discourage development teams from "deploying before the end of the year" in...

mike_walsh (12/20/2009)

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I figured I would add my $0.02 since it is my blog post discussed above. Brent Ozar and Aaron Nelson discussed this on twitter the other day and I,...

Hey Jeff,

Thanks for the great review and the kind words. "I'm not worthy" doesn't begin to cover it, but thanks for the sentiments.

I'm glad it worked. Thanks for the praise on the books. I'd follow Gail's suggestions if I were you.

See you at the next Data Camp on January 30th?

Yes & no. How many SQL...

I figured he had it all running on FoxPro. Was I wrong.

Oh, and 7000 posts. Yahoo.