Yikes, release date is tough. The KB articles sometimes change and their dates may not be accurate.

Builds are for the most part released in order. The CU/SP ones sometimes cross...

It seems to me that you have an entity decision to make about what the data means before you move.

In terms of your certifications, organizations, inventions, and anything else, I...

Not a good game for the Rockies yesterday, but still doing well. I haven't been to a game yet, but the 11th has an afternoon game v the Mets...

Me too, that's why I liked this question.

I have tended to stick with single vendor solution where possible. The main reason for me is support, dependability, and DR. If there is an issue with other software, it...

Thanks, glad you like the question.

A couple of questions. First, what is more powerful in terms of scale? How did the 3 servers CPU/RAM /Disk compare to the larger one?

100% CPU isn't necessarily bad unless...

I'm not sure if you...

I'm not sure I'd say R5 is the plague, but it is a risk. Two failures is bad news, and even if you have a hot spare, it doesn't mean...

So I've gotten more than a few complaints about posts like this from Syed Jahanzaib Bin hassan.

http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1101142-146-1.aspx#bm1101269

I can certainly appreciate he/she is annoying, and not often right, but I'm not...

I don't care who does it, but if Tom gets one in while anyone else's is in the Q, I'll go with Tom.

Tom, no great hurry and I'll let you...

HA, I like NULLs. I might ask for two articles, one pro and one con.

What's too expensive? The price is based on performance. If performance matters, you pay more. If price matters more, performance suffers.

There isn't a good way for us to "check" your...

I use Firefox. Don't like IE, haven't tried IE9, but if it's like Chrome, why move? Chrome gives me a few ergonomic issues with some shortcuts I like in Firefox,...

Rick,

Thanks and I will pass along your message