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snowing today, as I pack to leave for Orlando. Feels funny to think about packing shorts in a bag.

Can you help me understand the requirements a little more. Are you looking for an update to your reporting server once an hour that makes the reporting server look like...

I think it's split. I know a number of people that apply CUs regularly, but it seems MS is trying to slowly get away from SPs. We have CU #13...

OK, Johan has run away with it after KU's win last night. 12 so far and likely to add at least one more.

Allen has one team and 8 points.

Mark has...

Are you sure the server is up? If you know the server, check the errorlog for the instance. At the beginning it lists where SQL Server is listening.

Also, what is in ActivityName besides "email sent"

If you can avoid the <>, you can make this run more efficiently.

I think that blog is OK for internal applications, but it doesn't think through the complete issue. While it's true that a port scan or network trace can easily find...

paul.knibbs (3/25/2011)

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I disagree here. Licensing per core is all well and good, but you might well end up paying to license a feature you don't want and never use! I'd...

A Facebook friend just asked to start an on-line book club with Dan Simmon' Hyperion. Anyone read it? Just started it and not sure about the first 20 pages.

I thought Surface would make a great gaming table as well. I think there are a number of places in some resorts, like Vegas, that have implemented them for bar...

That is strange. I wouldn't think it would matter, but I'm glad it's working. I'll dig in later and see if I can come up with something.

What you want to do is use charindex to find the other pattern. This is all pattern matching, so you can do this:

select

charindex( col2, 'dbname.dbo.'),

...

Is the name of your database read_write_filegroups? Or is this a filegroup backup (typo)?

I think this might help you: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms190218.aspx

The best solution would be, If I understand your situation correctly,...

A Better reference: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc938485.aspx

Checksum isn't a term I've seen associate with RAID. Almost always things are listed as parity calculations.

Ray K (3/24/2011)

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Yankees' big question mark is still their starting rotation, although I understand that A.J. Burnett, Ivan Nova, and Bartolo Colon have been looking pretty sharp. Freddy Garcia...