I haven't seen much lately, but there's a blog here: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/sql_service_broker/

You can ping them for stuff if you need it. There's a book from Amazon that I have, but it...

It's a good writeup. And there's always a big debate about NULL being valid or acceptable in RI.

I personally think it's OK, but I see the other side, and there's...

Thanks for all the kind words. They show why this community is so great.

Sore.

Too much ranch work yesterday and my body thinks I should get another day off.

Post back here if you know more. I'll follow the thread and if I think of anything else, be happy to add ideas.

I'd agree as well. I search for fit first, technical experience/challenge next. Not that technical skills aren't important, but I think that the people are more important.

In terms of DR, perhaps something that examines the cost of data loss and the risk factors and maybe determines some formula for how much $$ should be spent?

For procs,...

Polyserve is the only software I'm aware of that's like this.

The simple view is:

- Full backups copy all your data, permissions, schema, from the database to a file that you can use to restore them. They don't handle logins, so...

Good to see you're still around, Barry. Hope things are going well for you.

Welcome back.

I don't think you want me singing

Aleve

my back is tight today

SQL Server is huge, and the explanation would be pages and pages.

Please go read some documentation. There are good explanations here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc280361%28v=SQL.100%29.aspx

If there's something specific you don't understand, ask. Otherwise,...

Good advice above. I would tend to only consider splitting things if I expected scalability to require me to have 3 servers in the future to support the load.

Otherwise,...

I think you can timewarp ahead on Sun night if you like. Or you could probably find a podcast or two now 😉