Who exactly controls the information? What kind of roadblocks are they going to put up? The fact that I'm a voter needs to be public for all sorts of reasons...

Very nice technical presentation.

Did you do a cost comparison or model as well?

What are the best sites for reviewing what kind of security to implement? I don't think I'd send a manager to Stackoverflow.

Is there a good cost modeler?

This is an interesting related script:

2012:

http://www.sqlservercentral.com/scripts/integrity/136833/

2008:

http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1754876-3745-1.aspx#bm1757302

Is there a useful way to include row counts in your process?

Wouldn't it make more sense to capture a trace and replay it on a non production device?

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms186778.aspx

The information schema views included in SQL Server comply with the ISO standard definition for the INFORMATION_SCHEMA.

Seems like it might be worth the effort to understand this better.

About the only kind of software I can deploy to the hundred of sites I connect to is open source.

Everything else goes through a completely different channel.

The script published in...

A quick look at the license shows the Minion customer may not:

b. Evaluate the Software for the purpose of competing with MinionWar

Licenses written like this are a can of worms.

This update of the script outputs 2 formatted columns in addition to the raw numbers:

DECLARE @intDrive Integer,

@strSQL Varchar(100);

...

The spackle articles would do well on a wiki.

This is my ad hoc drive space query I use:

/* drive space */ if (object_id('tempdb..#drivespace') is not null) drop table #drivespace create table #drivespace (spaceinfo varchar(256)) insert into #drivespace(spaceinfo)...

I guess changing a headline is harder than admitting an error <ducks>

What surprised me is that people are still buying solutions that are browser dependent.

Probably installing this stuff on a virtual machine first would make a lot of sense. Or even second.

This is a primary use case for virtual machine technology. It may not...

Wikipedia has a useful overview of some of the issues:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_recorder