A few of your cases here are quite standard. What we can see, is that SQL Server query optimizer is missing greatly on the estimated number of rows. This can...

First of all. A physical box is most commonly superior to a VM in terms of performance, but you may not always need that extra performance. If so, a VM...

Note to self: Check whether you answer thread starter or other who just tries to help 😛

select t1.*

from t1 inner join t2 on (t1.column = t2.column)

where t2.condition_column = condition_value

You have to replace values, table names and column names to match your scenario.

AUTHORIZATION login

Specifies a valid SQL Server or Windows login that is assigned ownership of the newly created endpoint object. If AUTHORIZATION is not specified, by default, the caller becomes owner...

That's right. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms187811.aspx

Way too late answer, but still since other may want the answer. I would have created one VM per environment, with one or more instances on each VM according to...

Strictly speaking not Duplicate post, but similar topic. Unneccessary quoting is a bad habit too...

As for the question: revoke removes the acl entry specified, whether it is a grant or...

I've done this a lot, in the following way.

In the report definition, for the parameter of the stored proc, i specify something like:

=iif(Parameter!NameCount.Value = Parameter!Name.Count,nothing,join(Parameter!Name.Value,", ")

The parameter NameCount contains the...

It's not a workaround, it's best practice. Except during development, you should never configure applications, stored procedures, or anything else to send mail automatically to individual users, but use groups...

As far as I know, there is no built-in functionality for this. What Outlook does, is querying Active Directory for information. You could of course create a .NET CLR Stored...

Look at the database and log backup size:

select

database_name,

type,

backup_finish_date,

backup_size

from

msdb.dbo.backupset

Might it be that you don't have a clustered index on the table already? Primary keys are by default clustered unless you specify nonclustered. Creating a clustered index on a...

I have a list of parameter values, for which I intended to create cached copies of the report. This list contains the same columns, but the list of parameter combinations...

In theory, this is fine. However, as the parameter list is dynamic this is not an option for me. Thanks for the response though, as this may be an excellent...