AndrewJacksonZA (12/9/2010)

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From a pure hardware point of view, NOT taking into consideration optimising the software like mu_rauer said, investigate RAIDing some...

To me, the cloud commercials highlight the issues of sharing and not being overly dependent on a piece of hardware that can fail. It's a good thing for consumers, many...

In SQL Server, if you don't provide this, you have a default database you are assigned to. Not sure how it works in DB2. In Excel, it can be the...

We send mail through a .NET application, which sends them individually. There is a limited customization for each one, and so the database needs to be read to send them....

Using varchar(max), or nvarchar, will not waste space. It will use what space you require.

I signed up, but was out and about. If I get the recording link, I'll post it here.

AFAIK, they are. There are sometimes different patches for that edition, but it is the same build.

did you read Gilamonster's last note? The pages are not necessarily "corrupt" as in bad sectors on disk. SQL Server is not finding on those pages what it expects, so...

LadyRuna (12/8/2010)

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Dear Santa,

I've been a good little girl and having SQL Monitor and a spiffy iPad would really make my year.

🙂

I've left a bottle of 2005 Chateau-Neuf-du-Pape, a clean...

Interesting. Wasn't aware of that, but it makes sense. Any reference you're aware of?

Do not turn off the firewall. That's not the solution. On the computer with a SQL Server instance, you can open ports 1433, 1434 for connectivity. Or ask the firewall...

It's definitely my graphics card. I re-ran and got a 5.5, on desktop areo. I have 2 cards, one old, driving 3 monitors, and it's good enough for me. The...

My little girl thought so.

I thought local system ONLY had local access. Network Service is supposed to use the computer account on the domain, so it has whatever access that account has.

You really ought...

I think the current generation of FusionIO, OCZ, Intel, Patriot, etc SSDs might not have enough of a track record to determine if they are really enterprise stable. There just...