some interesting replies here here. Sorry I wasn't in the discussion earlier as I was coming home from the UK.

The CLR has definitely made SQL Server a more complete platform....

I think you're on the right track here. I've never used linked servers much in environments so I'm not sure if this makes the best sense for consolidation. Things I've...

If the transaction log gets really big, it's because of activity. Changes in the database. No bugs or other things cause this to grow.

Perhaps you're rebuilding indexes? That will grow...

Has anything else changed? Is this right after a reboot or has it been continuing for some time since you installed the SP?

Different services perhaps. Those users are for full text search and sql agent. I think the default service user is different as well and you might not have noticed it.

All software does get procedural, though parallelism might get through some of that, and the interrupt/jumps to new parts as we wait for IO can also help things appear to...

I probably have a few good ones, maybe more in articles than answers, but I'd like to think that most of us have good answers, often backing each other up.

I...

Hey if they want to play on their surface computers, we can probably avoid the presentations altogether!

And they don't listen anyway. We're usually ignored.

I need to talk about that now that I'm here in Cambridge. I've let it go with a lot of other stuff to do, but we'll give away some stuff....

I do believe there were immoral people involved, people taking advantage of others. Those people exist, and unfortunately they are in plenty of businesses.

However, I have read quite a few...

Jeff, I'm sure you're part of the problem 😛

but hopefully more part of the solution!

Keep in mind the question is not do you want your current salary disclosed, meaning a change in the environment. The question is if you started a company or went...

I would hope that less and less emails are being printed. I worked with a company that got hundreds of faxes a day, and printed them out. After a few...

Congrats on that. I went self paced, completed mine sometime in 2007, and I'm not sure it matters, but it was nice to get it done.

Now I guess I should...

Thanks and hopefully people will see that spending time learning and building skills is worth it.