I would not make those 12 a clustered index. These 12 columns will be in every single nonclustered index as well, so they will all be wide.

I would lean towards...

Feel free. Looking for a nice short concise reference to give people, and use as a link in one of my talks 😉

If this is for school/homework, you should be working through some of this yourself. The scenarios you present are not that difficult, and some experimentation should help you.

If this is...

Since Red Gate Software (my employer) makes a product called "SQL Backup", I'd go with native/litespeed as the naming for the backup type.

Ultimately I don't think it's critical to know...

You should be able to move your partitioned table to a new filegroup by moving the clustered index (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms175905%28SQL.90%29.aspx)

I like the idea of moving this to a separate filegroup, and...

Tony Savoie (1/5/2011)

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Interesting topic. Never had the misfortune of going through anything like this so am looking forward to some insight.

"Database administrators often disable transaction logs for fear of affecting...

Apologies, apparently something broke over the holidays. I'll get someone to look at this ASAP.

I think Ben has some good advice here. I don't know that those two versions conflict anywhere, but the client version is what really matters. The server drivers matter at...

For those of you setting weight goals, I'd discourage that. I think you ought to work on your health, and trying to get to the point where you can do...

You can snapshot a publication, or at least I believe you can. If you have a pub with ONLY stored procs that can work.

You might be able to script out,...

GilaMonster (1/4/2011)

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Missed it when Steve cleaned up. Someone enlighten...

From here: http://www.cpuid.com/softwares/cpu-z.html

Nope, I had this file

cpu-z_1.56-64bits-en.zip

Ambitious goals, Craig, and I wish you luck.

Should the handyman chores for 2011 be more specific? I know I need to add a few of them to my list.

Gail is correct. While it will "act" like a 2005 database, the physical structure changes, and the 2008R2 engine runs against it. The code in interpreted as though it were...