Probably more responses because our eyes have worsened in...

Nice question. I almost answered 1-64 but then read that there was a different option for affinity64 I/O. Had my fingers crossed answering this one.

I do notice that I get less headaches when I work at home under regular incandescent bulbs or under sunlight than when I work under fluorescent. Not sure why I...

What about a electric candle? The type that flickers like a candle but is electric? Would that achieve the same effect?

Oh, one thing about LASIK or any eye surgery: your eyes do worsen with age. So the earlier that you have the surgery performed, the longer you can go without...

Matt S. (7/12/2011)

Another thing you can do is hold your hand in front of your face (about a foot away), then look "through" it or "beyond" it. Find a spot...

OC Tom (7/12/2011) I would be interested to know if our line of work is benefitted by the laser eye treatments. Has anyone had that and does it help with...

Nice real-world QOTD. I use case statements like this all the time as I do a lot of custom reporting for our business. I had to look over the code...

Nice question, thanks!

This may be the link to the PerfStats scripts. This is from the MSDN blog:

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/psssql/archive/2007/02/21/sql-server-2005-performance-statistics-script.aspx

I have not installed these scripts yet so I do not know if this...

Nice introduction to delete and truncate statements. Glad you mentioned the difference in how identity values are not reseeded with a delete command as that is definitely an important aspect...

Thanks for the links Steve!

Got this one because the DBA at my old job helped me with an issue with a stored procedure where it was running exponentially longer every day and the only...

Thanks for the freebie. An interesting point I saw the other day was that U.S. independence was actually declared by the Continental Congress on July 2nd but that it was...

Nice question and a nice start to the holiday weekend here in the U.S.