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...

blandry (4/27/2011)

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Good editorial... But lets be honest about it, each year or so companies and individuals all over the world "upgrade" their software for no good reason at all....

Michael Valentine Jones (4/27/2011)

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A situation I have run into a is old software that is no longer supported by the vendor or the vendor is out of business. Getting...

Richard Warr (4/27/2011)

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Nice question and an interesting example. Would renaming the columns "Telephone 1" and "Telephone 2" to "Home Phone" and "Mobile Phone" mean that the table was then in...

Performance varies. R5 has a write penalty, but it's not that huge unless you are really stressing the system.

The bigger thing is reliability, especially if you buy drives from the...

BTW, are notifications back to normal for everyone?

The specifications you have given may or may not be appropriate. It really depends on the workload and throughput you need to respond to certain queries, as mentioned above. Is...

Yes, they are

I was working on one at 4am Monday. Not sure...

Did you install 2008 or 2005 first?

Short story: My friend arranged a "fly over" for the girl scout brownies that were transitioning from Brownies to Cadets at a small airpark about 2mi from my house. It's...