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Harry Callahan: A man's got to know his limitations ... 😉
Take care of yourself and get well Steve !
May 13, 2009 at 8:42 am
Yes you can remain a 'techie' ... I'm 51 and been a DBA for 26+ years and still a 'techie' ...
Although I did do the manager thing for a...
May 12, 2009 at 9:57 am
Good point Gary, maybe I should have clarified, one or two people could be present to provide 'background noise' (i.e idle chat at times) and also provide the service of...
May 12, 2009 at 8:14 am
Here is a rather quick'n'dirty script that we use.
May 12, 2009 at 8:05 am
It is an interesting premise. However for a first interview in an alien environment it may not be fair - but you will probably find the best candidates that can...
May 12, 2009 at 7:43 am
Skynet begins to learn at a geometric rate. It becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m. Eastern time, August 29th. In a panic, they try to pull the plug. ...
Glad it was...
May 11, 2009 at 3:14 pm
self healing or mutation ??? hmmm ... sounds like malware or a virus to me ...
May 11, 2009 at 2:46 pm
We have 250+ instances
a handful are v7.0
about half are SQL 2000
about half are SQL 2005
we have no plans for SQL 2008 and are waiting until SQL 2010
May 5, 2009 at 12:56 pm
No degree - I was driven by the potential income when entering college in 1981 under General Studies - I took all of the computer courses required for a BA...
May 5, 2009 at 7:46 am
For some reason 4 threads is kind of magical, whether there were 2, 4 or 8 CPUs. It did not matter if the CPUs were physical, hyperthreaded or physical (single...
April 27, 2009 at 12:00 pm
Striping will only help if your I/O subsystem can handle it.
I have done extensive testing over the years and have found that 4 threads usually gives me the best performance....
April 27, 2009 at 11:43 am
Awe come on now Warren - it is just a 'slightly undocumented' feature is all ...
Actually I have seen it work most of the time in batch scripts, however when...
April 24, 2009 at 10:46 am
Could you also post an example of the swings in 'page life expectancy' ?
lows and highs from a few random samples would be good.
how is your buffer cache hit ratio...
April 21, 2009 at 3:33 pm
Could you post your boot.ini file ?
Also, the resutls of the folllowing:
exec sp_configure 'awe enabled'
exec sp_configure 'min server memory (MB)'
...
April 21, 2009 at 3:22 pm
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