Tobar,

Wide as in Agent, Mail, SSIS, SSAS, Service Broker, etc. MySQL doesn't have as much in the box, nor for that matter, do Oracle, DB2, or others. You can purchase...

David,

It's as likely that they chose Oracle because of a few golf games as they like it. That is frustrating and good luck working through it.

MySpace is a mess, and...

That's fairly rude of you. The description of the article seems to fit and there are plenty of people that would like to...

Interesting

Not sure it saves power, but it looks fun.

Typically partners aren't included in your CAL calculations. You can use domain trusts, but I think for licensing, it's a company basis. If you go outside the company, you use...

I suppose you could set permissions on the XP. There's a proxy, and that limits rights. Limiting access to master for users (remove from public) might work.

Are you SP2? there was a problem with this in SP2, one of the CUs post SP2 fixes this.

I think the solution above should give you results. Left joins show nulls where something doesn't match.

You need to remove read only status, fix the users, then set it again.

sp_change_users_login

You should be adding indexes to the tables. Are they indexed?

I've heard that you want one tempdb file per core that you have for SQL Server. Not sure if that helps, but I think that separation makes more of a...

I think Andrew has the best idea, otherwise you need a backup.

Lesson one: never alter master without a backup. or any database for that matter.

Typically MS allows you to license the way that is most effective for your company (CPU or CAL) in terms of cost.

Usually CPU is more expensive, so people try...

I don't agree with companies scraping this information, though I'm not sure they're wrong, either in the moral or legal sense. You put it out there and allowing someone to...

Of course! Likely you'll find a faster way, but hey, that's why we love (and quote) you!