I don't know what conclusions to draw, or how widely to take the ideas. Some of those ideas have been implemented at Red Gate, and I'm not sure how they're...

That sounds like a good plan then. I'd give it a shot, short term, test the DR, and post back. Or write up your experiences. I'm sure people would be...

One thing to be wary of with remote storage is that SQL doesn't know things are committed, and you could end up with an inconsistent database, especially if the transfer...

It sounds like you've thought it through. Assuming Amazon gives you good bandwidth and enough horsepower for the VMs, you ought to be fine.

The transfer is the only thing I'd...

The question is what's the right level of taxation, for what benefits. Reagan's administration (correctly) surmised that lowering the top tax rates from above 50% to below 50% would...

Create a role for this, then create VIEW DEFINITION rights to the role. Add the login to the role.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms175808.aspx

I'm not sure what you mean. Are you saying that you'll have the VM files on Amazon's service or you'll host VMs at Amazon? I'm not familiar enough with the...

I'm with some others. I researched it, set up some basics in 2005 and just found it to be way, way more cumbersome than it needs to be. I'm not...

I think that we agree that some things are necessary, therefore some taxes are required. Always have been, always will be. Be altering the tax code to allow some things,...

SQL Server doesn't map the data files to a network location by default, and it won't map to most transfer protocols and work at any reasonable speed. It really...

I'll only disagree on one part. I think that government can create jobs. Not by spending our tax dollars, but with tax incentives, especially a reduction of taxes, they can...

Very cool video. Worth watching:

http://bit.ly/aY1jlN

I don't think that doing your hobby as a job is necessarily bad. But it is different than doing it casually or for fun and you really need to think...

Are you doing a shrink file or shrink db? I've had the former work better.

And here I thought cat litter was a clustering agent. :w00t: