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:

I think you're right, but I'm not sure the exam delves this far down. From what I remember, execution plan is pretty much used for the query plan as a...

webrunner, that's a good point. I'll add that to the list, and I like the idea.

So in summary

Execution Plan = Query Plan + Execution Context

Context is used specific information in terms of parameters and other data structures that could change for that proc/batch.

There are quite a few people here with Oracle skills, including Jeff. I'm not sure Jeff wants to help with Oracle, but worth a try.

I thought AIX was pretty cool,...

I'm not sure there are training trends as there just isn't a lot of variety in classes. There are specific classes on certain topics, but not enough people attend them...

Do you mean your Windows logs have wrapped? Likely you need to make them larger then, or setup a better auditing system.

AFAIK, you can't run SQL Server locally and put the files on Amazon's cloud service. You can contract with them for database services, and in that case, the speed of...