That's a good point. MS should be learning from the attendees. I know that I prefer real-world presentations, someone talking about what they have done, not what they've contrived to...

Jack Corbett (3/23/2010)

GilaMonster (3/23/2010)

I'm sure it has. I know I have discussed it with a couple of board members. There are other things that need to happen first...

I like the P-Eng. cert. That's what I'd like to see in our field.

One difference for us, however, is that the technology is our field. We get silo'd in...

Here's what I think on resumes/CVs.

Put the interesting to read stuff first. You never know who will read this, so just in case, put experience, descriptions, read-able stuff first. You...

Ay-yi-yi?

Any comments on this link? Too close to advertising?

http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/FindPost887102.aspx

Conrgats, Gus! After 11 years, my wife and I got a honeymoon this year. Hoping we'll renew here at some point.

Have to be close to home as a cranky Steve...

This looks like some type of hardware failure. The backup process just writes pages out to disk as quickly as possible, but doesn't wait for issues with storage.

Is the...

I can't believe I left a perfectly good country behind 🙁

I made it, a definitely journey from hell. Last year (2009), I had an only slightly less arduous journey, getting...

jet-lag

Oi, I'm tired.

It would definitely double disk space, though for many dbs, this isn't an issue. I'd think you ought to be able to configure the "new dbs" on alternate storage if...

Do you mean add as in add the counts?

select

IsNull(a.EthnicGroup,b.EthnicGroup) as ethnic_group,

a.female,

b.male,

(a.female + b.male) as total

If these are related in a hierarchial manner, no. You need two instances in a self join to match up the values. If you have these columns indexed, this should...

Do not install anything you do not need. If you are not using SSRS, SSIS, don't install them.

The link covers it, but basically remove folders, whack the registry.

There might be some DLLs hanging around somewhere that are leftover, but that link will get you as clean as...