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I think Lowell has some good ideas. I'd use the checksum to get an initial list, but then I'd have some program run through and compare the binary data to...

No worries. We're working to slowly improve things over time. New hardware is being spec'ed and argued about now, and I think that will help.

I suffer the same issue here....

How did you change this? You should be using Enterprise Manager.

When you say support, do you mean performance, availability, or both? Clustering only helps with availability, it doesn't address performance at all. In fact, it might be worse availability than...

Can you send a test message? I'd be sure the profile is still valid.

The client has to handle the color coding. It's not a SQL function.

I don't think that will work. My guess is your best bet is to check which object is affected and then see if it matters. If it's a nonclustered index,...

I'm with bitbucket. Read about it, run the Upgrade Advisor, and then restore to a test environment and test to be sure all your code will still work.

We've tried to figure out how to do this well here for years, but never came up with a good way. Plus we were bound by advertising contracts, which could...

Do you mean why is it slow those times?

I can't quite be sure. I'm not the infrastructure guy, nor the developer, nor DBA. I gave up control to focus on...

Be sure you are tracking space, and making log backups. That is the first thing.

You can set an alert condition to mail you (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms187827.aspx)

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You don't really need to back this up. It's a standard database built for a particular patch level of the server. So every server that is RTM has the same...

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We start sending the newsletter at 9pm MST most days. That's usually what the slowdown is. At times I run an hour late, but it seems the first hour or...