Please be professional and include a subject that applies when you post.

You might want to read something like this: http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/T-SQL/67202/

Slackers, my old team starts practice Sun am. I'm thinking of going out to get started myself. Bought a new left hand first baseman's mitt yesterday 🙂

Streaminsight looks good, unfortunately in SS2K8 R2 it's only in data center edition 🙁

So most of us won't get to use it. We can play in Developer, but to actually...

weekend (as in I am looking forward to sleeping in for a few more hours tomorrow)

There definitely are differences in most software. Editors especially, but it depends on whether that matters to you. If it does, it's not a toaster. If it doesn't, it is....

I think Stefan has hit the crux. Most people don't pay attention, and as IT exploded in the 90s, more people of both types came to work here.

I used...

Lutz,

I could track back the person, but I don't think it's appropriate, at least without a subpoena or other legal instrument. We worked hard to protect emails here, and that's...

Interesting to see what people use here. I've used some of this stuff, and I'd agree that external hard drives and flash drives are there for me. I grab the...

You are welcome, but send Paul Randal (www.sqlskills.com) a note of thanks. He sent me the link.

There's a whole section in BOL on high availability that covers the ways SQL Server handles this.

The article updates have been republished out.

You cannot mirror two ways. Only from DB1 -> DB2. You could log ship to DB3, which would work. See this (http://bit.ly/bXsbz6)

Publisher doesn't make sense in database mirroring

Reflector confusion: OK, I heard back from the PMs for Reflector. The expiration code is not something Red Gate added. Lutz added this to reduce support issues. A blog on...

Separate from a maintenance plan, but still running regularly, I have included these items:

- scan of backup files. Gather size, compare to previous size. If > 20% larger, raise a...

I'm confused. You say you have database mirroring, but also a publisher? Are you running replication as well and looking to get that in a DR situation?

It would help if...