Too late this year, but I'll keep you in mind next year, Ray.

I'm not sure what that would do to the RSS feeds. Right now those are by forum, and adding in feeds by tags complicates things immensely. I'd like to say...

I have tried to slide SSIS questions to the Integration Services forum (http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Forum364-1.aspx) under the data warehousing forum: http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Group408.aspx

I could do an SS2K8 specific one, but I'm not sure...

You ought to apply SP4, and it only takes minutes. The install is relatively short.

If you have 4 2008 licenses, depending on edition, I think you can install a 2000 instance and a 2008 instance on the same box with 4 CPU sockets. You...

Or check the event logs, usually the security one.

The reason you might need logs from before the full is if your full is broken.

Backup 1 - Full backup

Backup 2 - Log backup

Backup 3 - Full backup

Backup 4 -...

Let's please keep this professional. There's no need for name calling.

I have learned the hard way that the US system for dates is not applicable or appropriate worldwide. I missed...

There usually are downgrade rights for licenses, however they have never allowed you partially license sockets.

In other words, you could never set affinity for 2 CPUs in a 4...

Chad Crawford (3/17/2011)

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Ah - I forget about the MCM (Microsoft Certified Master), which is still pretty rare. Our illustrious leader Steve has some experience there that he might...

Congrats, I need to take those exams. Did you find them hard?

builds of 2005 http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Administration/2960/

the thing is that execution plan analysis isn't that simple. Grant's book is good, but it's some work to get through.

You might think about

- look to convert scans to seeks

-...

You are welcome, and if you wouldn't mind, can you show the code that worked for you?

Excellent, this should be an easy one.