Ha! I enjoy snowboarding, but I am nowhere near brave enough to try some of the things those people do. I'm still healing from trying to fly at Breckenridge in...

Closing this thread.

There are differences, but that's not a discussion for this site.

You're not going to find that negative documentation. I would insist that is not true, and if your boss' boss is sure, make a call to Microsoft support. They'll confirm...

The reason for a full could be to verify backups, or keep a copy handy. That's not a bad requirement, though it's different than log shipping. You can ignore the...

George has a good point. It seems like you have two requirements.

1. Restore full

2. keep warm standby.

You can use one server for this, but it's really two tasks. And I'd...

I think the best practice for learning a variety of things is to troll forums like this one (or the SSIS one) and answer questions. Figure out how to solve...

I'm not sure what you mean there. You need to a little more clearly, and detailed, explain.

Write permissions do not mean anything with read permissions. DenyReader is a permission to...

It's actually trivial to read the discussion. I usually do it first thing to check the question before I check on the way it looks to a new user.

On the...

I'll put up an announcement soon. Need to finalize the contract with PASS and I'll post a...

I've had that "what do you get out of working here" question before and my answer has been similar. As a DBA (production or dev), the job is the same...

If you want to spot check things, you can also use Profiler to see interactively what the trace is capturing.

For gross measurements of changes v queries, you can also...

The question has had the version added.

Hmm, I have a number of friends in non-gov't business who get today as a holiday. Surprised that it isn't the case for most of you in the US.

I reread the editorial and I don't see where this is an either or issue. Getting a Service Pack doesn't have, and shouldn't have an impact on CUs.

To be clear,...

Chris,

At no time have I advocated removing CUs for SPs. In fact, I have praised MS, and prior to SS2K5, pushed for regular scheduled updates. CUs will continue to exist...