It's really up to you. If you don't like Vista you'll probably not like Windows 7 any better--it's more like Vista than it is like XP.

Thought of using the Express or Developer editions of SQL server? Both can be installed on a consumer OS like Vista. Express is free but is missing some of the...

Is the file open in some other application that's got an exclusive lock on it?

It's always emulated. You could theoretically take your virtual machine from one machine and install it on another one with completely different hardware and it would still work.

Why is this a duplicate of last week's?

I was expecting an answer of 14 (numbers 0-9, +, -, . and $), but of course that wasn't an option, so I had to go and run the script...

As I said, I thought it was...

I selected None because I didn't understand the code and was pretty sure it would return a syntax error...I'm hoping the author was deliberately going for obfuscation here, because if...

What I find mysterious is that the backup information you listed earlier says NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM initiated the backup. That's the LocalSystem account, which is only ever used by services, so...

Would the OP not have already found his answer after 3 years, or am I missing something? 😉

I think Hugo Kornelis pointed it out on page #4, but it was at the end of a lengthy post so perhaps easy to miss.

We had a 6-way replication scheme going on at one point--we just used identity...

I also expected the answer to be -1, 0, 1--glad to hear I'm not alone in this! And the explanation given seemed largely irrelevant--I never thought a primary key couldn't...

If the server had a LOT of installed RAM I could see those numbers being reasonable--the memory page size Windows uses doesn't change, so the internal structures for keeping track...

If my calculations are correct, that means the file size limit is 16Tb (assuming 8kb pages). If that's the case, how has the OP's database file ended up at a...