chris.compton-977504 (8/22/2011)

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I really enjoy your editorials and I read as much and as often as I can.

I’m a developer, but I unofficially serve as my group’s DBA –...

There are actually some exploits that can access the virtual machine's memory or disk if they have access to the physical hardware. vMotion, or similar technologies that allow a virtual...

Jack Corbett (8/22/2011)

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I think there is definitely some BS going on, but it's also hard to know what "experience" is. There are plenty of people that manage a SQL Server...

T_A_D (8/19/2011)

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I have lots of email traffic to keep up with, so adding another thread of information has to really, really be worth it.

I would be interested to hear...

Peter Maloof (8/19/2011)

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At my current job, I was told informally that I could (for special circumstances), but I can't do it all the time. "If you do it all the...

Nice, I wasn't sure if you could flag that and a glance at the code didn't see one. I'll recheck.

I'm not sure I like the idea of open ended scheduling...

Yikes! I hope...

peterban (8/19/2011)

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Hi,

not sure how much coding you want to do, but we create an agent job "on the fly" using SMO and through the creation change the user parameter.

Take a...

Dave Schutz (8/19/2011)

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Not sure I see any value from this. Also if I let me SQL servers tweet, the next thing you know they'll want their own Facebook pages and...

So I'm wondering if 300-600 tweets a day is an issue? We get that many new threads started some days.

I was thinking more that we might kick out posts that...

The rebuilds are logged, so I would assume they flowed through replication. Since a rebuild is one big transaction, simple mode doesn't help. Simple still needs a peak log size...

Eric M Russell (8/19/2011)

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Well, when creating a SQL Server Alert, the options currently include email, pager, SMS message, and Net Send. Tweets are typically for public broadcast. SMS messages are...

Solomon Rutzky (8/19/2011)

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Since introducing Twitter functionality (for free!) into my SQL# (http://www.SQLsharp.com/) CLR library two years ago now, I have gotten a large amount of downloads for the Twitter functions...

Do a one time shrink of the log. Look at the peak backup log size, add some pad, and shrink to that level.

Jeff Moden (8/18/2011)

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I've never used them. I've always used something else because they didn't use to be available. Not sure I'd actually use them, either, because of the...