Amazing how many comments people wrote for this one, more than the first time I published it.

I definitely find that contrast matters. I read a lot on the Kindle apps,...

I wasn't attempting to trick anyone, but rather trying to make you aware that there are some settings and functions that work differently for large scale, x64 systems.

When I was a kid, all banks were limited to banking in a single state, and when that was repealed, or superseded by a new law, I think banking went...

Your sentence doesn't make much sense.

Once the database is restored on SQL 2005, it is converted to that format. Log shipping should still work, but if you ever failover, you...

David in .AU (7/12/2011)

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One concept that has floated around for many years (and I find it works fairly well) is for those with more than 1 monitor, ensure that they...

It's not active.

I'll gather some numbers later and see, but we serve much > 2mm pages a month to I think, over 50k unique people. Seems like we have around...

green

Back in Cambridge for the week. Things are very green here, compared to Denver with its light rain and no humidity.

Stefan Krzywicki (7/11/2011)

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Jim Murphy (7/11/2011)

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Do 'best banks' exist?...

Survived a day of walking around Cambridge without getting killed.

Helps I'm near Jesus Green, not much traffic 😉

Then it's working.

There is no name for MSSQLServer as it's the default instance. You connect to it with ".", "(Local)" or the Windows host name (or IP).

Stop SQL Server, remove the flag, and restart SQL Server.

Concur, though you could also look at Ignite (Confio) or Performance Analyzer (SQL Sentry) to dig into what is slowing a particular statement.

Jayanth has the protocol here. Contact support and ask, but I wouldn't be surprised if they didn't do this. The CUs have been tested, and I'm not sure they'd go...

You might check out Ola's scripts. Lots of people use them instead of maintenance plans

http://www.sqlservercentral.com/scripts/Backup+%2f+Restore/62380/

Can you connect to "(local)"