Yep, dropped SS2K8 Dev on my desktop. Needs SP1 (for SQL)

Nice job. A good introduction to spatial features.

Well, Bob, you might be ".1" from now on :w00t:

Done! and thanks. 🙂

WHS uses a technology that duplicates data across multiple drives in software. It isn't RAID, and it is similar to what Drobo uses to ensure that different sizes of hard...

That's an interesting point of view. It seems to make sense to me, but I'm not sure I understand the issue. I think I'll send this to Bruce Schneier, I'd...

Hey, I came up first on Snitch! That doesn't happen often. Usually Steve Jones starts with the muscian, golfer, professor or basketball player.

Jeff,

You ought to look at Win 7. I moved to the RTM this weekend, and so far things are working well. It flies on hardware and seems much improved to...

FYI, the username issue should be fixed soon. The front end devs have finally written some code to generate unique user names and handle the db errors if they insert...

I don't think I've ever had SSMS crash on me either. If that's your biggest complaint, I'd suggest you look into tracing it down. YOu might have something as simple...

If you only have 2% free space, then you're running out of space. You need to add more space, not shrink.

And you will need more disk space. There's no magic...

Your question doesn't make a lot of sense. You'll need to elaborate about what you mean?

"doing installation before installation" doesn't make sense.

I've done both, sticking with Windows only logins if possible for users as this ensures that users who leave, or are added, to the company get the proper security permissions.

Same size as the original when backed up.

It depends on your environment. You have to work with the clients of the database to decide when a good time for them is.