blandry (5/14/2009)

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Do you know that technically, when you go to your local bar or pub and hear a band play someone else's song, they are supposed to be paying royalties...

I may not have presented my argument well.

The writers organizations (or some of them) feel that the text-to-speech feature is a "performance" and that right is not granted. If you...

Mark,

You need to call MS for your specific instance. They won't clarify in a general sense.

My understanding is if you license the physical procs (sockets, not cores) on the machine...

You shouldn't have long locks that prevent updates. An update should granularly lock a row or page, and only if it's a large update would it get the table.

If...

This is very interesting. What I've heard is that you can't completely trust the numbers in some things, like CPU and IO because the hypervisor might alter things to balance...

The Veristas backup will likely count as a full. Note that I'd recommend you stop using that agent since it can be problematic in a DR scenario. You want to...

The backup/restore pwd shouldn't need to be the same as the creation password. The creation password is needed to open the key.

Sam,

Sounds like things aren't that bad. Good to know.

We're here to help. Please start new threads for basic questions you have about how to do things. We will try to...

Andrew is pretty on here with what I think. The exceptions I'd make for production data is in a brake/fix or User Acceptance Test environment where the people verifying things...

Ahhh, Klingons asking questions. About databases? Could be interesting....

I thought Klingons used the laptops to cause damage when their phasers died.

wouldn't VMs come into the memory area?

Jeff, I'd think 64bit and Hyper-V. I've had quite a few other MVPs say they like this arrangement since they can bring up/tear down...

You should also review who has the ability to do this. It should not be many people.

You could broadcast that you are about to undertake this investigation and express concerns....

I'd tell him that both of these activities could cause a lot of downtime if there's an issue. Regardless of testing, though you should still test.

It's a risk issue. I'd...

Best of luck, Eddie, and I think we'd all be interested to know how this turns out.