you've asked an incredibly open-ended question here. Really if you aren't sure of how to set this up, you need to pay for consulting. This is really beyond the scope...

Dan, you're welcome, but I had little to do with this. Someone else dropped it in there. I have written a few, but my knowledge of spatial data is low.

If...

Feel free to ignore questions that don't apply to you.

Should we not ask questions on Service Broker because few of you use it? Or skip replication because it's not...

Wow, are the CUs classified as critical? I didn't think that applied to most of them.

Thanks for the kind words.

That might be true, though I don't think the Event Viewer actually queries for more up to date info. It would be good if you could allow queries to MS...

Alvin,

That was good 😛

It's a bit of trivia related to spatial information. If you work with data on the oceans, this can be valuable. It's not something most of us will deal with,...

I think you're mis-reading me a little. I said that I'd like to see the user informed that there is a patch available. There's no shortcut here of not testing,...

I tried a log scale, didn't seem much better. I think it's too many data points and no good distribution.

A few facts:

Users: 972,717 (not all members are in the forum...

OK, 10 minutes was ambitious. Took me ten minutes to change computers.

I pulled down the post data anonymously, grouping a count by number of posts. I then pulled it into...

LOL, I was going to stop at Excel and then thought that would be bad.

For a simple chart, Excel is just better. Microsoft finally gave up as well, and instead...

I thought sledgehammer, but those flying pieces of ADSL modem are dangerous. Now if you can redirect those down the block.......

Hammers aren't fun for technical equipment on the fritz. Now a slingshot.....

I'll see if I can whip one up in Excel or SSRS. Not sure we have that on the servers, but I can suck down some of the stats and...

You can't performance tune without some testing of how efficient things are. I guess I was wondering as well whether people actually think about testing beyond that. Jeff addressed some...