I probably won't make NYC. I am in the middle of 7 weeks of travel for the household and likely will take a break in April. Plus baseball starts 😉

I...

I have a teleprompter. It can still be hard to read what's written.

A clapper would be fun. I started to make one and got distracted. Might need to go back...

Thanks for the invite. I'll have to see if I can make that one.

If you have any braindumps or NDA information, or even any copyrighted information you have downloaded, it is illegal for you to distribute it. You can lose your ...

You don't need to have the browser running if people know the port. They can't connect with server/instance without the browser I believe, but if you have specific ports setup,...

Is there something you are trying to achieve here? Perhaps we have other advice?

ALZDBA is correct, anyone with DB_owner rights can access the db.

The cert is valid for a product. I can claim to be NT 4 certified forever, as well as SQL2000 certified. More companies are asking if you are certified on...

Please confine the discussion to the article and not attack each other.

Debating whether or not the terms used are appropriate, accurate, or even necessary is one thing. Saying that the...

I would think snapshot isolation would help, but I'm not a replication expert. With that many changes coming through, I suspect you are going to have issues. It's like packing...

So here's what I suggest. When things are slow, check for locking/blocking. I would be concerned that someone has not setup transactional replciation and instead setup some snapshot replication, or...

That was good, Paul.

I think we win the Olympics, though we should. Lots of $$$ and people. No excuse for not doing well.

I was thinking of the same thing as Lowell, a central table with an identity used to seed the other tables.

Thanks for the update. That is an interesting behavior, makes me wonder how they are building connection strings in the plans.

Five of six years ago Microsoft published some surveys that showed about 100,000 MCDBAs, but closer to 1,000,000 people calling themselves SQL Server DBAs. Most people don't have certs, in...