I've used Servers Alive and What's Up gold for this. They both work. Not free, but they work.

Note that it's likely worth paying a little for something if you want...

Test carefully. Realize that there isn't any free improvement here. These are additional indexes to maintain on updates, so don't over index.

I hadn't thought of that, but companies ought to offer pay for holidays. I know we're on salary for the most part, but we should get compensation for holidays, especially...

I rarely play. I sometimes take a half hour or so with...

you're welcome to come out here. We have land, Scouts, and snow 🙂

Grant Fritchey (12/28/2009)

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50' is pretty good. Our driveway is over 200 yards long, so I don't have a blower, we have to have a guy plow it or we can't...

Agree there. Being a fan has nothing to do with thinking. The whole idea of rooting for someone else in a sporting event is kind of silly.

I started T-ball as...

I got my son away from Half Life 2 on the Orange...

What's your connection string?

Thanks for the votes. I've pinged MS, and been patient waiting for the one year anniversary of SP3 to roll by, but no responses. My guess is most of MS...

I've removed the drop table from the question. It was to do the cleanup in testing, but I agree that it confuses the issue.

You can't use mirroring and have read/write at both ends. Only replication will allow this.

I'm not sure if bidirectional transactional replication will work for multiple branches. It can definitely restrict...

information_schema.columns

Has data type, and lengths. Need to limit by column and table.

The CUs aren't regression tested, and do sometimes introduce issues. SPs include the CUs, plus potential internal fixes for things that were in a customer specific hot fix, or might...

There isn't a good way to do this. The export wizard will help, but you'll need to write scripts that would still find the client data based on criteria.

The easiest...