I tend to store things in tables simply because of reporting and retention requirements. If a server gets tight on space it would be no surprise that someone would delete...

A calendar table is really a must have in my opinion. In our business, we have to count the duration of activities for both business and non-business hours. Some of...

Drew Gillson (2/8/2012)

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I just experienced this issue, and although I was not able to get SSIS to talk to an Excel file directly on my 64-bit Windows Server OS (ACE...

My stuff also has all that functionality as well, and yes, it was worth all the effort for the learning experience. The reporting aspect is nice, but not something I...

Nelson,

I too wrote my own log shipping/restore routines. It does everything the out of the box solution does, but I never put it in to production. While I thought it...

We use SAN replication in combination with VMware recovery groups, but I still keep log shipping in my back pocket just in case for our three most critical databases. It...

Interesting that this comes up just days after I had to perform this very type of operation. I was determined to not use a loop especially given that I also...

This sounds kind of useless to me. All the rules and the probability of Enterprise-only make this of little to no use at all.

Eric M Russell (7/9/2015)

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I believe there is more opportuity for an individual, even someone coming from a remote rural community with no formal engineering education, to be an IT entrepreneur...

A healthy bit of fear about the future and our own viability and usefulness is a good thing. IT doesn't stop evolving, so those of us in the industry have...

We are currently in the planning phase to implement a SAN and visualization at our main site and then our DR site. We've hired a consulting company who have sent...

Ed Wagner (4/14/2015)

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Personally, I wouldn't be sitting around working in a Starbucks. Then again, I'm also the semi-paranoid type who won't use public wireless networks for work at all...

I use a BIOS password and BitLocker and the machine can be wiped remotely. Regardless, I'd never leave it unattended like that. I don't even leave my desk without locking...

Great, just great. A year ago I wrote something that has to break down a CSV-style parameter string and it uses a loop to do it. It is just a...

Zing!