Thanks for the article Steve.

While we know patching is critically important, it's still hard to get it completed.

Some is resistance from DBA's, some from Dev's and some from "we can't...

It's great to celebrate successes and a really good idea.

However we have negative news because we have issues. How about focusing on prevention and fixing issues? How about proper capacity...

One big item the author missed was SQL 2008 Filestream. Instead of filling your DB with images, etc... you can use FileStream to map these images through the DB. They...

Thanks to all who replied. It turns out this is a normal state when using NO RECOVERY and setting up for Mirroring. Once the mirrored db is created, then the...