Well I showed Gail last year, but here I am

Nice and quiet.

Set up a tracer token as well, see where the times come back.

If you have specific publications, how much data is changing? It's possible that you might exceed the capacity...

Let us know what happens.

What is tempdb set at for a size? I wonder if you can set it lower and restart SQL.

Surprisingly I see things with the horses as well that remind me of managing people all the time.

jpowers, best of luck in finding something.

Thanks again for all the responses.

One thing I thought of recently is that most of the "fads" and "new things" that are put out...

The SARGable argument, for me, would make me lean towards straight integer or character columns.

It sounds like a security issue from your description. I would contact your web hoster with the issue.

Ah, but less and less all the time. I remember when I...

This one?

http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Questions/Tags/System+databases

I agree with Gail. Think about what happens if your database fails 10 minutes before the next full/diff backup. How much work is gone since the last full/diff?

That's a risk,...

GilaMonster (5/15/2009)

"In the jungle,

the mighty jungle..."

Thanks for the kind words. I was definitely a little melancholy the day I wrote this one.

Kind of funny that as I read the comments here I'm installing W2K8...

I always here it referred to as the Resource database, so I think it's getting straightened out.

If any of you talk to MS, I would like to know what they say to you about the licensing.

It makes sense that you would license logical procs, but only...