I would ask Ed's question as well. If you have a server, fine, but I believe that IA64 support ends with SQL 2008 R2.

On plagiarism, my alma mater has some free software:http://digg.com/u1UU6a. I could host something using this if someone wants to help code.

Do we have a sharepoint site? I can see this thread fragmenting into multiple ones quickly.

We could. I'd actually like it if we had a good piece of software to help checks, and have someone independent, like PASS, host it. We could cut/paste a quick...

Third vote here. network copies can tolerate delays, and will retry if packets are lost (which happens all the time). The SQL backup throws pages out as fast as it...

I do think things will mature, and we'll get data in the cloud. Even financial data, but it will not be the mainstream, IMHO. Just like the web, we'll get...

I don't think it's cultural. I think it's more Roy's #2 reason. There are people looking to get ahead, and when it's a large number of people, there are a...

I completely agree. However when they become more like 40% or more the cost, which I've seen, then...

For the humor ones, not necessarily related to SQL, I kind of expect that you'd guess for fun or Google the answer.

Glad you enjoyed it. Sounded like a great event from the tweets.

Thanks for the comment, but I think you're taking the wrong approach here. All the good that you have done gets...

chandrashekarthota (4/26/2010)

---

As a site administrator I request you to kindly ignore my Core member comments. I am

closing down my site for few weeks just because of plagiarism and I have

learned...

I agree with that post above that most people don't know how to run or manage a meeting, or often just don't want to spend the time prepping for a...

XEN or VMWare will let you run it (Windows + SQL Server) on a Linux host.

Data + objects? No. You could script out objects, and then you'd need to export the data. SSIS could easily build a package here. What I'd do is build...