Funny how this blog post never goes out of date. Please read this about your log file.

Or Powershell. You can a heck of a lot more from there than other places. Combining something like a web service with data queries will be pretty simple through there....

Hey guys, a bunch of you are older and a bunch of you are SF fans, so I'm hoping the Venn touches.

There was a book from the 70s...

Full disclosure, I work for a software vendor that makes a monitoring product, so feel free to dismiss this on that basis.

Don't try to build your own...

Errors. Lots of errors. It doesn't fail all that gracefully at all. Best to avoid it.

Not entirely.

The query optimizer is completely dependent on the statistics on the table. So, let's say you turn off the automatic statistics maintenance when there is only one...

I'm not aware of a specific type of recommendation along those lines. I can say, 16gb of memory and 32 cores is NUTS! My laptop has 16gb of memory for...

COPY_ONLY backs up everything that the regular backup does. It just doesn't put a marker down in the database that a backup has been done (possibly interfering with differential backups)....

I am a hop fanatic. IPAs are glorious and wonderful.

Thom has it nailed. Without information, we can't help.

One little point, depending on the type of query (and since we can't see it, who knows), putting everything into...