Can you update is on what was the issue? Might help someone else down the road.

Which way? As I see it or Lynn?

I thought this came up in an MVP forum or call, that you have to license each logical proc that a VM accesses...

If the objects are there, either you restored the wrong backup, or you are misremembering which objects you created.

Or you can use a GUID in SQL Server with a default of NEWID()

There are a few near us as well. Haven't thought about it myself, but I see them doing open houses a couple times a year for kids to come by.

I...

Gail has great advice.

Longer passwords are better, but if they are in the dictionary, with any easy to remember substitution (such as zero for oh) then that's being built into...

FWIW, as an author, my contracts have different royalty rates for different rights. Foreign languages, audio, etc.

Might not be any different questions 😉

First, always, always, ALWAYS have free space in your mdf data files (or ndf files). This goes for the logs as well. Growing a file on demand is an expensive...

skjoldtc (5/14/2009)

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Steve, do you find the Kindle to be worth the cost? I was thinking that for the price, I'd want color. The Kindle II has a battery that is...

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...