t.walker (3/5/2009)

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Perhaps you real experts who know lots of stuff can tell me why you persist in advising people who can't blow their nose yet.

This is not a sarcastic point...

Lynn Pettis (3/5/2009)

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Steve Jones - Editor (3/5/2009)

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Apologies for not getting in there sooner. I could see the heat coming through the wires from people's ears.

Supposedly this is an "MVP" as...

Sorry, I was offline all day at our annual IS kickoff meeting. Go...

Steve Jones - Editor (3/5/2009)

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A lot of what Gus has listed are reasons I'm concerned about this.

I think things work well as is. Relatively few people would likely use any...

This post has a bit irony attached I think:

http://mangalpardeshi.blogspot.com/2009/03/how-to-disable-right-click-on-your-blog.html

Yeah basically. There are other tools you could use to help out. When you're really trying to figure out what's causing the server to slow down (or stop), this is...

Also, I always forget about this, but you can use the object explorer details window. Click on, say tables in the object explorer window and you'll see the list of...

kellyrmartin (3/4/2009)

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Thanks for the tips guys. I am looking at those tools now.

ANother question. Can someone explain the difference between a Lock and a Block? Are you guys suggesting it...

GilaMonster (3/4/2009)

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I doubt Brad wrote all of those. He...

Jack Corbett (3/4/2009)

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GilaMonster (3/4/2009)

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Grant Fritchey (3/4/2009)

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I've been running a loop of "I love living in the city" by the Fear in my head for days now, so, I'd almost welcome...

GilaMonster (3/4/2009)

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Derek Dongray (3/4/2009)

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The items I did find suspect were from reading his blog, in particular a list of SQL query performance tips with no explanation as to why any...

Right. Now there really is something to report. He lifted that list. Go here and read through this:

http://www.sql-server-performance.com/tips/t_sql_where_p1.aspx

I found the tip that upset me on page 5. I'm not sure...

Gail, Jeff & Steve are the three MVP's I know that haunt this thread. After I posted to the blog I had a different MVP send me a direct message...

Posted on the blog and didn't mention names or start a fight:

http://scarydba.wordpress.com/2009/03/04/bad-performance-tip/%5B/url%5D

Someone else mentioned checking the Agent error log specifically, not just the SQL Server error log. Other than that, I'll let the reinforcements take over.