Does this historic data change?

If not, you can do this and put it in a separate filegroup. That potentially allows you to recover the primary production data quickly and restore...

Go Rays!!

You are welcome. As soon as I started working in environments with other DBAs / developers, we made that switch since code would be formatted differently on different machines.

New building looking good for the horses:

We talked about it, and since we are also giving out shirts (and maybe books) as people walk in the door, we decided that having two types of tickets would...

I think there's a risk issue. Financial information has lots of liability stops. Report your CC stolen, limited to $50. Similar limits on some other accounts, plus insurance is available....

Don't use tabs. No one can count on consistent tabs spaces, so if you expect 3 or 4 spaces, and it's different, the code is mangled.

You should always set editors...

Tobar (9/13/2011)

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Perhaps, but I write about what I think is cool. I...

Jeff Moden (9/13/2011)

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I have to ask... where do students get the money to travel from Australia to Europe, spend a couple of weeks doing whatever they want, and then travel...

grumble, grumble

#$%$^#$%$# Steelers

Grant Fritchey (9/12/2011)

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Chad Crawford (9/12/2011)

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Woohoo. Attended my first SQL Saturday and spoke there as well. Was as nervous as <fill in your favorite joke here>, since the...

Chad, I'll work on something. It gets a little hard to handle prizes, which is the main thing we charge the tickets for. The casino is covered by SQLServerCentral, but...

roger.plowman (9/12/2011)

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I keep seeing the chest-pounding developers who claim if you don't know how to implement low-level structures in C (or equally low-level languages) that you're not a real developer/CS...

Removed.

Here's a nice post on how to do that with PowerShell: http://www.simple-talk.com/community/blogs/laerte/archive/2011/09/08/103241.aspx