You can definitely load up HTML documents as binary documents. I'd assume that XML would work as well.

As far as querying, it would query like any other XML document,...

There are actually limits to that automated selling. Various tripwires will actually stop selling to prevent that from cascading across all stocks.

I'm not sure there was a lot of forcing...

The reason I might set a limit is to prevent someone from running something that makes heavy use of tempdb, and perhaps tracking it down. It's a fairly heavy handed...

I'd completely agree with Andrew. You're unnecessarily loading the server to build this when you could handle it on the client.

PS - names are in bold. You're referencing post levels....

Getting the data to a file is always a client side operation. Saving results to a file might work if you return the blog only. Might need to muck with...

It's hard to say what will take longer. I've had things that took longer at a large company that didn't at a small one. Familiarity with the system, DBA, etc....

Easier, yes. Needed, no.

You might not get all the performance counters you want, and that can delay troubleshooting. You might have issues in an emergency in getting the server going.

Other...

The argument is a lack of skills, which requires time and money to get up to speed, or you incur risk that you won't be able to manage or recover...

I think we'll just disagree. I have never seen short selling as a problem. People sell you something, in essence a promise to get you the stock if you need...

Slightly dated (May 2008), but it's a good look at some of the issues:

http://www.thislife.org/Radio_Episode.aspx?episode=355

Don't forget we've been having issues for months. It came to a head a few weeks ago.

One...

Short selling isn't stealing, and actually short sellers can help ensure the market doesn't grow too wildly. (http://blogmaverick.com/2008/09/30/the-stock-market-is-not-a-barometer/)

The problem is that we were allowing people to borrow on stock they...

There are services to try and clean up data about you, but the best you can do is limit things. You can monitor your name, though, and it might be...

It's old and needs to be updated, but for the DBA, I have a few articles on this topic:

http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Monitoring/20010422115752/84/

http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Administering/20010422115754/85/

I don't think there's anything more than the added complication, which I wouldn't dismiss. If you have a need for the FTS service to really have different rights, then do...

Answers still apply no matter where you put the naming.