Thanks, Andy, right back at you.

I hope this year is better, but last year was pretty great. Happy New Year, everyone.

Yep, I'll try to go back and lock up those that are accepted/published.

Thanks, Peter, I'll check those out.

Congratulations, you two.

Monte, and Rob, I'll get prizes going today. Can both of you PM me a snail mail address?

Steve

Best of luck on your goals, and hope they work out for you. I haven't set mine, trying to stop and think about what I want to accomplish, and setting...

CPU power has increased, but a great talk from Dr. David Dewitt in 2009 at the PASS Summit showed that disk xfer rates have not. The capacity has, but the...

Hope everyone had a good evening last night, welcome to 2011, and best wishes.

Solomon Rutzky (12/31/2010)

Now, Steve mentioned "Regardless of what columns are in the nonclustered index, the clustering key is there" which is not always true. It is most often true, but...

Keep in mind this is a piece of the puzzle. Some languages, like some of the Java clients, will only work with nvarchar formats, and if your db is in...

Interesting story, and good advice.

Thanks, couldn't remember that. I was thinking it was 2 + 2 for the variable portion. I was wrong.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms177484.aspx

If you choose an identity for your clustering key, that identity is...

I saw Chronicles, and it was good. I hadn't seen the other two, but this made me want to go rent them.

Iron Man 2 and Red are now on my...

Happy New Year, to all the threadizens. I know a few of you kiwis and Aussies are celebrating. About 14 hours to go here.