If you want time savings. Pick 4 tables, 2 small, 2 large ( in terms of changes) and compare the time to find the differences or check with your own...

If the restore started, then the old database is gone. Once the restore starts, the files are changed and you can't "undo" the restore.

Did the restore complete and then...

I work for Red Gate, and this tool has many rave reviews over the years. There are other products as well, but you are better off buying a product...

Snow

Late snow came down last night in CO. My front yard:

I'd like to think we'd still be publishing information without questions, and encouraging debates.

There are always new people, which is why we reprint older, good articles from the past at...

Eh, I want to see more Derek!

ORM: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object-relational_mapping

The question has been edited to remove the 2005 choice. It does ask which version of 2008, so that's not a valid answer, but in hindsight that's a little tricky.

OK, the site is live. I can start adding people using your emails. What I'd like to get is just a post that I have permission to grab your email...

It's tough to figure out what might be 3 months worth of work. What about something more specific in the XML area, like an examination of the efficiency of...

For those of you with blogs, its' T-SQL Tuesday, the topic being LOB data. Be sure you make an entry if you have time.

It's T-SQL Tuesday, drop your entries in.

Well, you've got me. I purchased a site at http://sqlservercentral.sharepointspace.com/ and am waiting on them to get it setup and DNS to replicate out.

Hopefully that will be OK.

I personally don't like the reviews since they create anxiety on my part, and they often aren't well built to measure what I've done for the company. Am I being...

Explanation is corrected.