So, McGuire, HOF?

Listened to Buster Olney this morning, interesting take. He says writers should not vote. They are there to follow the news, not be a part of it. I...

The table name has been corrected. A complete DDL is not given. You should assume other fields mentioned do exist, but are not listed for brevity.

david.wright-948385 (1/12/2010)

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I really enjoy your editorials Steve, and I have the greatest respect for your abilities and experience but...

Perhaps I got out of the wrong side of the bed...

athurgar (1/12/2010)

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Steve - you only listed 6 continents. You missed Australia. If you can endure the plane flight I am sure that the SQL Server community here will welcome you...

Go with the one you feel comfortable with. You'll deliver it better, and I bet you get more questions on it.

What do you have lined up? I think that changing at the last minute can easily wind up with broken demos and people wondering if they should come back. It's...

My wife wanted me to see Avatar over the weekend, but my daughter didn't want to, so we ended up in the Blind Side, which is a fantastic movie.

Very strange. Is it possible the time was off on the new machine, or that the processes kicked off as part of rollback/rollforward?

Are you sure they kicked off because of...

Unless you have them set to start on startup, they should not run.

first, deleting all public permissions from master could cause you issues. There are procs in that that a normal user might need to access.

Second, what is "26"? What code are...

Ha, not sure my name means that much. However I would second recommendations on Kalen's books as well as Itzik Ben-Gan. I think Brian Knight, my former business partner here,...

That's one reason we try to only refer to the online BOL version. It changes quarterly, and local help can easily be out of date if you're not paying attention.

An FAQ is a lot of work, though it might make sense for an article to be posted that someone can maintain with a list of books to read.

Jan,

Glad you're enjoying it. Are you wood or metal bat down there?

I really enjoy it as well, and am looking forward to practice starting in about 30 days here for...

I'd think that an intra-query deadlock is a bug of some sort. However, it's a good point to be aware of.