Thanks and it's better. My wife even has assigned me some fence fixing chores today.

My limitations get a little lower every year. I'm OK with that, but I still try...

Thanks for the update, and for anyone else reading: check your drivers and firmware early when you have strange errors. I've seen this reported plenty of times with disks and...

I haven't tried Vista 64-bit, but on my ADM 64-bit desktop, I have XP32, and 2GB, and it's slow. I even have two SATA drives, OS on one, VMs on...

And did you install SQL Server? Or does BackupExec do that in a bare metal restore?

Typically (non BackupExec) process is to install Windows (or restore), install SQL Server (or restore),...

No points off for whining. I make plenty of mistakes.

However, if you complain, I would like to see you write a question, or even explain how you think this question...

Thanks everyone for the notes, and my sympathies do those of you suffering.

I'm much better today, can stand up/sit down with pain, even bend over enough to lift the toilet...

Thanks for the sympathy and link, but it wasn't working...

I'd also suggest you go 64bit at this point on your machines. Especially with VMs.

Upgrading memory is easy, as mentioned above.

When you say you restored the server, how did you do that?

Gus, nice post, and thanks for the details of how you use this in an interview.

I'm still not sure you need to kill these processes. Maybe, but you might need lots of them before it would affect your server at all. We used to do...

You ALWAYS want to have free space in your data and log files. Growing them is a relatively expensive process, so you have free space in there.

A 10MB log has...

Ohh, I want video for the podcasts

Wow. that's a new one on me. Thanks for the update.

Interesting, Bob. I might have to get a report.