Hmmm, I'm not sure how this is SPAM. It's listed as a case study, the description says it's a tool.

We run these sponsored articles, and they are paid for. In...

Moved to job posting

I don't like bits for things like this and I'd go with ISO. Who knows what crazy categories someone might assign, so leave room for growth or changes.

In 2000 I checked it, but didn't count on it. I tended to restore often enough to dev/test that I didn't worry about scheduling things too much. We did have...

I'm not completely sure. Why not try it in 2005 and see where it might error out? You can do the compile and not run it.

The delete message might be hard, but I'll see.

That thread likely got deleted for some reason. We do that at times.

Wow, never played that long. We might have gone 8 or 10 hours some days, but definitely not all night.

Maybe I'm not as much of a geek as I thought...

Not only is thread going, I can't keep up.

D&D player here, long time ago, using paper and dice 🙂

No AARP yet, and I should have a couple years when...

SQL won't easily give you the totals at the bottom of columns. Your front end would do that.

It is important to test and be sure. You might have great techniques in your toolbox, but they won't always apply.

One of the weird things about SQL is your "rules"...

How big is the db?

A blanket, weekly schedule can work, but it can use more resources than needed. There are lots of scripts on this site that calculate fragmentation and...

That is indeed, scary

Thanks, grass....

That always gets me a chuckle. I think you might need a dual rotor chopper for that mission!

It can fragment, and you'd need to rebuild the clustered index to fix this. In EE you can do this online.