Nice one, made me smile.

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Interesting idea. Is there a place where this makes sense or where you want to stream a result set back in your applications?

Does SSMS do this? It seems that I'll...

We had an anti virus program that used identities to note a new scan of a machine. Since we had over 10k machines and this was scanning every 10 minutes...

You can check Performance Monitor/System monitor to see if all 4 CPUs are being used. There is are also a few settings for parallelism.

If you have the affinity mask set...

I would second Lynn's note. If you have more than 16GB on the 32 bit platform, the OS needs quite a bit.

If they have rights, Mark's solution would work. Or you could map a constant drive for each user in the login script.

I'm not saying Apple is perfect, or they're great. However they've built a great environment with the app store, and for every controversial app that gets rejected, they are approving...

http://www.cotrip.org/device.htm, check them every morning. Heading to Keystone in the wife's truck. Will go slow.

Newsletter could be late tomorrow 🙂

It required special hardware. You might want to read up on clustering in Books Online before doing anything. This isn't a five minute, get a quick answer topic.

I think George has some good advice, and be fairly honest. If you don't plan on staying there, I wouldn't write it down, but I might have a sidebar with...

You can use restore headeronly to see what's in the file. If you have set things to append. If not, you're out of luck.

SSMS will also let you see the...

I agree with Grant, but there's nothing wrong with the maintenance plans if they work for you. The only place I've used this is where I have large loads of...

I just found out I have the 28th off as well, so I'll check in, but likely going skiing.

Don't cross post.

answer here: http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic837990-146-1.aspx

Read this: http://www.sqlskills.com/BLOGS/PAUL/post/Why-you-should-not-shrink-your-data-files.aspx