Kids

Extra kid at the house today, hard to work with another one asking questions, wanting help, etc.

I removed the link, but please don't post those. It's a copyright violation, and it's rude. The people writing these books are other DBAs. They're colleagues, and when you post...

I can't comment on hockey. I think in hockey they have a rule that allows play to continue if the team committing the foul doesn't have the advantage.

However same thing...

Pop the menu in Win 7, hold down shift, right click SSMS. You'll get a run as different user. See the image attached.

Players games are for the backyard, kids, rec centers. I agree with you, Lynn, for most games. However when it's a professional sport, and televised, it ought to be run...

Somewhere there must be a on successful message. I'm not sure where else this comes from. I'd think it's in the plan somewhere.

SQL Developer Edition, 2 humans, and about 63.5 days to realize that two humans will not act in a set based manner and want to do everything on their own...

You could use a trigger to prevent this, but I'm with Lynn. I'd think the application should handle this. I'd also set up an exception job that ran nightly to...

I tend to agree with Scott in terms of designing this differently. If you are trying to keep the table size small, you can put the entire note in the...

Sorry, we were working on a contract early on, and there isn't enough profit in the very early stages, the $995 or so registration times, to allow for a referral...

Check the plan. You can send mail from within the plan.

RAID has nothing to do with size. In terms of SSIS and Informatica, it's just having resources to run them both.

For protection, RAID 1, 10, 5 can work. R5 has...

Is it just databases? Meaning do you have jobs, other server/instance level stuff?

You don't want to copy over master typically since it has local paths and machine specific settings, including...

The other DR issue is how quickly will the cloud provider respond when you are down? Having dealt with co-location facilities, the guy renting a rack is way down the...

I haven't watched this time, but it seems the last World Cup I watched when the official clock ended, there was an "extra time clock" that counted up. It didn't...