My take: Painting a picture

I've hot-linked the article.

I don't know how your system works, but the server does make an entry here that you have a 100GB file in the disk system. If that...

That is great. My own virtual imaginary world on FB!

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc645993%28v=SQL.100%29.aspx

Is it going backwards? I'm not sure about that. I think that PWS, and Python, are actually moving forward by bridging some of the programming concepts that were missing in...

Congrats, Roy

Gianluca Sartori (5/5/2010)

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Today I ran across the strangest threads I've ever seen here on SSC:

Want to buy a Ford car?

A sad story from Colorado

They don't seem to be automatic spam,...

Yep, but the backup file won't be 130GB. It will be the data size (with some log records). You can copy 50GB there, restore, then shrink if you really need...

That's crazy. All over the news today on the radio. I think I am in favor of this, though I haven't thought it all the way through. No reason for...

I ought to run some numbers on them, but it seems the Random Word has more replies than this thread on some days.

Why use SSIS? Why not backup and restore?

Fast Track is only for data warehouses. OLTP loads vary so widely.

It's still hard to guess your load. Maybe Lynn is closed on memory, but 1GB a day/150 databases, isn't...

You can use a UNION to grab all results. Query with the FROM having database.schema.object

as in

...

FROM db1.dbo.Accounts

That's great. If only there were some way to get people to actually read...

Mirroring is not designed to hold up the clients.

In high safety mode, with no witness, if the mirror goes down, the principal continues to work. Clients can add data.

In...