Probably a separate thread, but what's the menial workload? What do you do on a regular basis? I'd post that elsewhere, and perhaps see if there's automation or a way...

I like VMs better. Easier to slide to another machine, and I think the memory split can be more efficiently used.

With instances, you can't really control one v the others...

jcrawf02 (8/30/2010)

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ok.....so, going to give voice to a thought I've been having lately. If PASS's main goal is to facilitate knowledge, and the value they bring to members does not...

Once price, all 7 conferences. If you're a hybrid person, and more and more of us are, it might be better. My first time this Nov, and I'll let you...

I will be there. Look me up

Not sure I understand? Wouldn't a skipped question have a -1?

For the answer, is a blank because it was skipped different than a blank because they didn't know the answer?

I would agree, but it does make an argument that NULLS can be problematic. I...

The sequel was good too. They blew lots of things up :hehe:

Not according to my wife. I took her to that one night and she has rarely allowed me to choose a movie without her input since. She saw it as...

Art sucks

( I saw as I swig from a can of Pabst and watch XXX)

Some notes here: http://sqlblog.com/blogs/aaron_bertrand/archive/2010/08/25/sql-server-2008-r2-best-practices-analyzer.aspx as Aaron Bertrand had some issues.

Do these help:

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/sqlsetupandupgrade/thread/2a5f460b-8684-4510-8fcb-1e9d9786baff

http://www.masykur.web.id/post/Resolving-SQL-BPA-Command-Line-Problem-when-Running-SQL-Server-2005-Upgrade-Advisor.aspx

DAC is what I'd use as well to re-enable this.

It was an interesting take from Brent today.

I've always seen "N/A" as "Not applicable", but you give some good other responses that might be used. Hence another point for the "non-nulls" argument.

I wouldn't add db_datareader. I find exceptions constantly for tables, like auditing tables. I would create a role for each db, add the Windows group to it, assign rights to...