Hey, someone has to make them up. I might entertain suggestions if you have them and I definitely need to get these posted somewhere permanent.

Post questions about the site anywhere,...

We do try to get things answered quickly, but we're still volunteers, not paid professionals.

I'm not sure anyone's put up a comprehensive document. You might need to piece stuff together from multiple places.

I'd start here: http://blogs.msdn.com/raulga/

Don't think the VM software has been around long enough. You might just need to migrate those VMs periodically, every few years or so

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That's great.

Well, this is officially the longest thread on the site.

And I do miss some of the red-necked way of talking in the South.

Well now that you mention it, I realize I'm inconsistent and use both. I don't see it consistently on the web either, though the comma seems more prevalent. The colon...

Expertise can be more than just doing it all yourself. I'm sure Gail would know who to call if she got stuck in a portion of the BI stack. That...

I think customers rarely know what they need, or even they want. They have some vague idea, but they don't really think it through. It's important we kind of guide...

I do agree with Jeff that you need to write good code, but you also want to not get too caught up in it. There's a point when you're wasting...

I'm not sure how you get 2 hints. The page listed, http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms187713.aspx, has 3 types of hints there. That's where the question came from. We didn't search every reference in...

Phil,

Thanks for the break and guest editorial. I had a good time skiing with the kids yesterday.

I agree that you want to have an idea of scale and build development...

Mr. Cameron has the right idea. Plenty of people might not understand that you can't take a backup, or that another snapshot might not help since it's from another point...

You need free space in the database for the reindex.

You should not shrink the database on a regular basis. This is an emergency procedure if something caused the database to...

Now that sounds like Live search! 😛