glad you found it and thanks for the update. That helps others when they search for similar issues.

Talk about a chore. I actually considered it for a second then realized what I was asking.

It would be 24, or maybe not. Depends on the activity in your forums. I go hours without any replies sometimes, but then I'll be like Charles and get 40...

There are conflicting entries in BOL on this. One says 50 only on Enterprise, another says this includes Standard. I've submitted feedback to have something corrected.

Unless someone wants to install...

I was just going to post that stuff and Nicholas beat me to it. Thanks, Nicholas.

The 8.3 thing seems to be a biggy and then filegroups might be a good...

Are you complaining about BOL? It's definitely lacking in places, but it's a pretty good document and I love the ability to give back feedback or add community links. Definitely...

There were issues with this and it wasn't widely called for, so it was dropped from 2005. There is no way to do it in 2005 that I'm aware of....

The startup parameter (-e) for the service determines the log location.

Please post in the correct forum. Not just anywhere.

Moved to the 2000 forum.

Moved to 2000 forum.

That was funny.

Linking to google might be a good way to answer a few of these questions.

I've logged a note. Personally I think I'd like an hourly email rather than 20-30 a day.

As your DBs get larger, this gets to be more of an issue. Lots of larger systems just SNAP on the SAN and then they might stream to multiple tape...

What are you trying to accomplish here? Wouldn't a log table and the OUTPUT clause help you with the statements? Or a trigger?

If you're a consultant and you need this, spend the $$. It's an investment in your time and it pays off. No one I know that has bought either Red...

Derek,

Here's hoping things go well in 2009! And you enjoyed the time off.