Thought you might like some statistics. Someone asked me, so....

In terms of total points (as of about 15 minutes ago), on the overall list

#100 - 2,303 points

#50 - 2,884 points

#500...

I have awarded back all points and edited the question to include the answer for future people.

Not a great question, and my apologies.

I'd agree we need to do more here, but

more from workers != more hours

It's a question of being more efficient and being more strategic.

Traces can work, but I'd agree with Gus. Third party tool. Log to a folder that the tool and the DBAs can not read from. Only write to.

Tim Parker (10/15/2010)

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I believe the industry as a whole may place too much emphasis on the years of experience, versus the actual aptitude of the individual they are interviewing. ...

I'm not sure what you can do here, except perhaps limiting the deletes to smaller batches and then use less RAM.

You could use separate instances, but then you'll be balancing...

Be sure that you have rights to those files for the service accounts.

Make sure that the paths in master are correct.

Who throws a can of soda out of a car? That's insane. Almost makes you want to hook up a camera and 10 min loop of video, recording what...

I think the problem is that we don't have any rating of what a senior DBA is. Is it someone that's been a DBA for 7 years? Because it's easy...

LSCIV (10/14/2010)

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This is true for some environments. In my...

You wouldn't want to mirror to the passive node since it's part of the same cluster. Any storage issue would wreck your system.

This is slightly off topic. If you are...

Ben Moorhouse (10/15/2010)

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With disk space getting cheaper and cheaper, I'm considering doing some basic disaster recovery for home.

Copying all music/photos etc onto a big disk and taking it to a...

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Most of my friends run ESX. Haven't heard of any large Hyper-V installations with SQL.

AFAIK, there's only one technology of the e-ink e-paper that's for sale. I think the there are slight tweaks to get better grayscale bettter on the Kindle 3 and new...