These only work if UDP 1434 is open between servers. Lots of routers shut this down after the SQL Slammer worm.

The only way I know of for sure to find...

In addition to Jack's ideas, you could go virtual if there isn't a large load on the system. Named instances as well, if you have the memory to support them.

We went to Android, isn't everyone?

Patience, my padawans. I'm looking to write things up, but honestly I'm not 100% sure what the final was since I only had an opinion...

You can backup and restore all SQL Server database, including master and msdb. That being said, only one SQL Server with that name can exist, so you'd have to change...

I paid $300 for my netbook, and just got my son a laptop for $429 that's miles further. A laptop is a better deal most of the time for presenting....

I don't like the SQL Server Twitter thing either. I think it will clog up with lots of noise, from a relatively few people. I've seen some people try to...

#townnews won't exist from the BCP session. It will only exist in the session that created it.

You can do this, however you might have naming issues.

It will work. I have an HP mini, 1GB RAM, and only a 16GB SSD. I have SQL 2k8 dev, Office 2007 (partial), LiveWriter, and it works OK. Space is...

do you have multiple filegroups? if one gets full, and you want to insert to it, the process fails. Objects cannot span filegroups.

Note that the recommendation is to turn on...

Is there a relationship between the tables? Can you join them? you'd need to provide more info about the tables DDL and what's inserted. Or what's required. It could be...

Camden Yards is a lot like Coors Field. They're both nice. I got to Fenway last year, which was an experience. Hoping to get to either the Royals or Pac-Bell...

If you check some of the user point levels, you'll see I'm a baseball fan. In fact, I've played adult baseball the last 4 years, starting in 2006. Love it,...

Gary has a good point, and ultimately, IT exists to serve business users, even if they do not use things efficiently. The idea behind PowerPivot isn't to remove IT. It's...

No Oracle, huh?

Maybe it's Visual Foxpro because we got a free license from MS? XML files managed through Apache and Tomcat?