yep, saw that. actually all are possible except the log backup.

I've edited the post and I'll clean up the question somehow.

And I'd like to see you try.

I wonder how generating pin codes would be faster procedurally? Is it some randomness being introduced somehow?

OK, I see the argument here, but if you follow the four steps.

I'll look to reword the question.

I'm not sure it's even good English, and it's certainly not consistent.

I would agree it is important that we understand what we are talking about and use consistent terms. It's...

Definitely do some research about SP3 before you test or apply. There are some issues here to be aware of like the CU.

And once again we're off and running in a different direction.

I doubt this will eclipse the "Are the Posted Questions", but you never know.

Your logic isn't exiting anywhere. I'd run those selects and see what they're returning.

Not I, but very nice.

Thanks and great comments.

Barry, nice note and a good explanation. We are definitely looking more at kinds and attributes here, despite the BOL title.

Have you enabled the DAC? It's disabled by default. Use the Surface Area tool to turn it on.

Use an ORDER BY and a TOP 1, then add a HAVING clause to get only those ordered 1 time (if that's what you need.

I hadn't really planned on writing a lot about the differences between 2005 and 2008 as it seems 2008 is more of a 2005.5 to me, the core is very...

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you can try here: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/sql/2005/sqlydba.mspx

no table, but it talks about 2005 clustering. Don't forget a lot of...

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