Alvin Ramard (8/25/2010)

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As far a I can...

Thanks. I'll add to the list, but don't hold your breath.

She probably would go without me for a month. Guess who gets shovel duty? :hehe:

Shhh, all this talk about NZ might get my wife talking about making me take her on a plane for 18 hours. Yikes! :w00t:

So, is NetFlix.VacationHoursTaken set to 0? 99999? or perhaps, Null 🙂

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/mediatechnologyandtelecoms/7945719/Netflix-lets-its-staff-take-as-much-holiday-as-they-want-whenever-they-want-and-it-works.html

Good post, and you've hit the issues. There are issues either way. In the db I would tend to vertically partition the blob data from other metadata to avoid index...

@david-2, thanks for the update from RG.

@rudy - I think that is nice, but not always practical. There is limited time, and at some point you have to decide what...

The problem is ensuring the data dictionary gets propagated to other people. Comments in table creation scripts are what I've done, since it's easier to maintain there, in a VCS,...

In the past the big reasons I've gone with Enterprise is scalability (larger CPU/RAM limits). Now there is less of that, but other features. If you can take advantage of...

Amazon is absolutely down at times. For some people. I have had it break down, but pick back up in a minute, for me. Likely Ray, in NYC, didn't see...

The differential backup is just the addition of the differential option, as you have listed. More details here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa225964%28v=SQL.80%29.aspx

However, you need to still do full backups. Based on what you...

CirquedeSQLeil (8/25/2010)

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Silverfox (8/25/2010)

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Didnt realise your a MVP Jeff, Congrats...

Just thought I would stick my nose in the forums, been a very long time.

Kind regards to the rest of the thread...

I definitely like the idea of a cloud like Polyserve. That seemed like a great technology.

Coffee

LightVader,

OneNote can help you with separate notebooks. It makes it fairly easy to bind pages into tabs, and tabs into notebooks. Took me a few weeks to get used to...