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...

I think Mauer will stick. He's from the MN area, and wants to be there. I suspect there will be an issue with the player's union on the contract, but...

A great discussion, and I'll weigh in here on this question and topic. First, I disagree with John in that I think I bear some responsibility for the questions and...

Great point....

dcawvive (3/19/2010)

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The submitter is responsible. It is NOT MY RESPONSIBILITY to review their work. How lazy and weasely is that. Try telling your users it's their job...

I have been known to cross my finger and mutter at the screen a bit to make sure something works. Sometimes that's all we can do, especially if we're under...