Heh... this site left me no choice, Grant. I had to give this article only 5 stars because it won't let me give it 1000!

It's amazing how many "Brown Leaf"...

I have a query that is using DATEDIFF to calculate the number of minutes, of course as an integer, but I may need the extra precision of showing this...

It's hard to tell.... are you looking for confirmation about your "assumption" or ???

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So I post a comment over at DBA Stack Exchange, because I know what I'm posting isn't an answer. I get dinged for it because it almost reads like...

Confirmed!  Messages, Followers, and Following are all back!  Thanks, Steve!

What other useful DBA reports do you suggest? Maybe something we would run every month or so to check that our environment is configured/running optimally. We have these so...

As a bit of a sidebar, the TOP thing may have been someones attempt to "set a row goal" to trick the optimizer into doing a better job.  The thing...

Hello,

We have truncated a huge table (50+ million) rows in sql server which was created for testing purpose.

However the disk space is not released back.

Any pointers on how to...

Shifting gears a bit and speaking of the community on this site, someone made a new addition to Wiktionary a month or so ago.  I'm sure that most of you...

My comment was to Grant and was meant as a general comment.  If you'd like to quantify it, go back to the testing that I did that was mostly ignored...

Thanks, Steve.  I really appreciate it.  Are there similar links for "followers" and "following"?

That's fantastic.  How do we read old messages?  I'm not seeing it anywhere in my profile.  It's entirely possible that this ol' brain forgot something so I'll ask, do you...

That causes a recompile of anything that uses...

You can't really track user behavior through the logs. Without specialized tools, you can't view the information in the logs. That's really not what the logs are for. It's...

I set my sql server recovery mode as FULL,so all of the logs will be fully recorded. if so, how can I use the log to track if users'...