The server may slow down with SHRINKFILE, so be aware of that. You might be better off resizing the files, or if they were small and grew, just restarting the...

I would encourage you to give a hint and ask them to try to answer the question, even the PhD candidate.

I usually post" We are happy to help, but we...

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Blogs could be a detractor, but they also show you learning, or trying to learn. The fact that you've repeated a "myth" doesn't necessarily mean you're a bad employee. It...

I also can't see the government getting involved in vendor level certifications, providing the opportunity is there equally for all groups.

I tend to agree with you, Lynn. I think we ought to have a path of certifications that go from the basic to intermediate, to the advanced Master/Ranger program. It...

With Access they've tried, and you can set up essentially the Express engine for Access apps.

I think we are getting closer with Exchange, but I'd like to see the specific...

The script is a T-SQL script. You need to execute it in SSMS.

Gail's design shows why it's better for you to give us the information about what the entity is, and what the data is represents. A good designer will consider that...

The conversion time is hard to guess. It's a "build a new table, copy all data from the old one". You can test that with a fake table.

As far as...

Probably could, and should.

The decision on what to make a clustered index is more based on the queries made against the table, not the definition. You would want those queries that look for...

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Thanks for the update.

Steve,

We'd love some basic articles on how this stuff works if you're interested. You wrote some great descriptions above.

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