Gentlemen,

You are welcome to debate this and it is interesting, but please keep it professional and agree to disagree about things that you cannot resolve. Please do not call each...

GilaMonster (4/27/2011)

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I know one that likes to walk into the developers area "Why aren't you working?", "This had better be work" and similar statements. Any wonder she doesn't let me...

Stefan Krzywicki (4/27/2011)

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Sure, these are all just my anecdotes, but they're what inform my perception of the state of management today. I've also had some great managers who understood what...

I may be wrong, and I'll admit that. However the "use" of the data in terms of when/how you might call someone is debatable. The data domain itself is a...

You don't need separate files for each partition. I'd create a separate filegroup for the archive, RAID 50 data and move the partitions there.

Your decision to compress things is sound,...

I might ask if you really need to run SSMS as an administrator constantly? If it's to connect as an admin to the SQL Servers, then I'd change the...

I'm not...

Unfortunately, I think some people are going to have to get hurt, and companies sued before they start to really focus on the quality of their systems and people.

I've avoided...

Heather/Ray,

Thanks for the update and notes. Can someone post back here the results of your investigation so people that find this thread with Idera/Cluster in the title know what you...

strange. It's almost like you're running something else in that batch that causes an error.

Does this work?

select 1

from dynamicsgp_utilities.dbo.V_sfvouchers

where (sfid like 'EM-%' or sfid...

That's a syntax error somewhere. Check your parens.

This seems indicative of an underpowered server. Not enough hardware or potentially a driver issue.

Is this replication, as in this one? http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1110981/unknown-performance-issue

Ha! I've made plenty of mistakes and had some sketchy questions. 😛

I am trying to...

Tatsu (4/27/2011)

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Steve is spot on and, to add to his message, my advice is to use ALL[/] of your vacation time. I must admit that I am bad about this...

I hear you, and overall I dislike government regulation as it's been done. However companies, and capitalism fails because of overwhelming greed and a race to the bottom. People start...