I would recommend you follow Gail's advice, and also that you switch to more intelligent rebuilding, but if you are running out of space on the disks, you need to...

Replication isn't designed for high availability. To reverse it, you need to stop replicating data from the old publisher, and re-set up replication in the other direction.

As mentioned above, you...

Both platforms have issues, as well as pros.

I would tend to stick with what the skills of my staff were since the cost of the system can be low compared...

Good to see MS trying to help here. Not sure this is the best way, but between free security essentials and this, good to see them spending some $$ to...

Interesting. Not sure all the analogies hold, but not a bad set of reasons to be lazy.

I didn't check other versions, but I did check on 2008. It functions as noted.

It isn't a big deal, but if you are writing checks or alerts for bad logins,...

A database isn't an Excel file. It doesn't size itself according to the data. Sizes are pre-set, and should be managed.

If you have deleted data, and don't need the space,...

GSquared (7/21/2011)

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Funny! An editorial about being reasonable about rules, and the title violates the rules (spelling). 😛

Now that I've finished making fun of Steve, I guess I wreely nede...

Lowell is correct. The storage isn't related to how you view it. A word file is an XML file these days, just interpreted by the Word application.

You can store rich...

CASE http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms181765.aspx

If checkdb ran, I'd make a backup first. See if that works.

Beyond that, I'll let Gail help out. She's more experienced in this area.

*groan* (loudly)

Yep, still kicking.

Just for you guys, my new least favorite thing

cengland0 (7/20/2011)

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Sorry but this...