I hear you, Michael, but there's two things there. First, it would suck, IMHO, if all the teams only existed in big markets.

Second, it's a private club. They wouldn't necessarily...

george sibbald (4/7/2010)

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I know its silly, but I just cannot bring myself to muck about with system database backups in any way. If I ever start using SQL native compression...

I think they need some type of salary cap in place. Something that makes things more on par with the NFL so that more teams have a chance.

Some small market...

OK, I'm a girl. That's OK. I think I got a crick in my neck from looking down at the rad meter every 3.6sec while in there.

I think I'd be...

Ray K (4/7/2010)

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I just played HIPAA police on a posting!!!

How can you work within healthcare and either not know about HIPAA or use common sense with regards to live data?!?

I...

I have removed the data for safety. If this was made up data, I apologize, but please make sure that you are not posting live data on the Internet.

Nice one.

RESTORE HEADERONLY FROM DISK = 'c:\db1.bak'

There's a "compressed" column in here. Not that it matters, a restore is a restore.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms178536.aspx

The translation is

"Oracle sucks, you should use a real database like SQL Server and be sure that you research, test, and document all your code solutions.

And take every other Friday...

SL-1 was brave, some big, shiny (now) glowing, brass ones on those guys.

I went in the reactor containment once and was nervous the entire time. I feel more confident now,...

this worked on my SS2K8 Dev edition

BACKUP DATABASE db1 TO DISK = 'C:\db1.bak' WITH copy_only, COMPRESSION

snow, snow, snow, snow, snow, snow, snow

Woke up to a kid asking if school was delayed. It's not, but it looks like this:

Grant Fritchey (4/7/2010)

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Computers? On a nuclear power plant? Luxury.

We controlled the rods with a switch & some motors. No computing of any kind involved, except for calculators that we could...

The certs mean something, the question is what? I'd say it's "in the eye of the beholder" to butcher a cliche.

For HR departments, it's a nice filter. That means it...

The levels take effect immediately (less caching).

Those are some good suggestions from Jason, and I'll use some. The Rookie of the Year is nice, and I might track that for...