They do get personal and nasty. Please report those, and I try to moderate/censure/edit as needed. We all get upset at posts at different times.

Paul, you added some good info,...

blandry (3/18/2010)

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To take such a popular quote, which by the way you credit to "Field of Dreams" but allegedly actually comes from a Roman politician referring to the building of...

Don't think that teaching moments are just for the argue-ee, or that their lack of understanding is a failure.

These discussions are viewed by many. They exist for a long time....

TravisDBA (3/18/2010)

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I tend to agree with Jeff on this one. Feedback is useless if no one cares to listen to it, and from what I have heard from many people...

Don't be sorry. We appreciate the acknowledgement, but...

We are expecting 5" of snow here, which makes my word for today "Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooo"

This is likely to mess up my Ski Friday.

There are quite a few people that like that ribbon thing....

BTW, someone pinged me about a GTR posting bad info and causing trouble. Anyone have complaints, or are these other teaching moments?

That should work. You are looking as long as deletes occur. If you happen to delete the last 1000 rows and rowcout = 1000, you look again, even if there...

That discussion could turn out to be a great teaching moment. It's a good debate, and the chance to both help the OP as well as see if you can...

The two local centers I've used in Denver give me 2-3 sheets of blank paper and a pencil. After the exam I have to turn the paper and pencil back...

There verify typically isn't much time added. Not sure how much, but you could easily test this on your system.

In terms of logs, I'm with Gail. Each log file to...

multiple databases, single instance. I was responding to your initial question, and didn't make it clear.

In general, the balancing of memory between instances, and potentially CPU, isn't worth it to...

To add

If tempdb could be an issue because both use it heavily, multiple instances can make sense.

I prefer multiple databases for applications if possible. That's what SQL Server was designed...

This is great!