So Blandry, I'm confused, you're not an MVP because you don't know everything about a product? Or everything in some area? Or all technologies?

The award is a community award. It's...

I like Jeffrey's scheme. I do that as well, one maint plan for each "maint scheme". So one for system dbs (no t-log backup), one for user dbs that need...

Do they not have a unique index on tables? If so, adding a primary key would merely be changing that unique one to double duty as a PK. Not sure...

Probably should have one at 662, any ideas? Maybe "The Say Hey Kid"

The next level is 714, Right There with Babe.

Happy to elaborate:

I have an object/entity with 20 fields, perhaps some larger, varchar(max) or large char fields, that exits in one table. I build a clustered index, which is the...

Joe, thanks for the response, but I think you'd find many more people upset over a separate email than a short note.

We'll likely continue to do this, but I do...

Football? I know minicamps [/url]are going on, but we're over a month away from football 😛

Joe Howard (6/8/2010)

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Good question, and I really appreciate the detailed explanation. I wish all the QoDs were so well explained.

What I don't appreciate is the sales pitch...

think widely. I have had cases where we do store data in a table that is relevent to that entity, but is rarely queried. Keeping it in the same table,...

Thanks for the suggestions. Had a quiet dinner on Iberville last night and then a few hours in Harrahs' with a friend. Not sure what I'll do tonight.

The BI sessions...

Thanks for the note. I won't make it this time, but Andy Warren went and enjoyed it. I'll try to go when I come back in August.

In a source control session at SQL Saturday #22. Surprising that quite a few people don't use an VSC for their SQL Code.

What do you guys use? Manual versioning?

I'm sure they would pay $250/hr for 7 sec of advice. 😛

test, test, test. If you need it, give it a go. If not, hold off. I wouldn't blanketly apply this to all systems.

I heard from MS the other day that...

Well that was quick.

Do you know about this one? http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc280574.aspx