I'm curious as to why you're interested and we certainly don't want people to have a goal of boosting their counts without adding to the site. We want good answers...

There was a guy in the UK (Andrew I think), that pinged me and actually moved over to Denver a few years back. I'm not sure I have his contact...

Well I'd have liked to see the Eagle a couple years ago, but > $100 a ticket at an outdoor football stadium wasn't what I had in mind.

We've seen three...

Can anyone having issues with the newsletter send their client, OS, and screenshot to the webmaster at sqlservercentral.com? The newsletters appear fine on test systems, easily fitting inside 800x600.

Charles, a...

The problem is what is says. The key you're entering is not valid.

Search for reviews on Live/google. There are places that have information about what these are and how they perform.

Second Jacob's advice. Especially in a virtual environment, be sure that your LUNs are physically separate and try to separate the storage paths as much as possible.

also, don't allow your...

As Ken mentioned, you can set a job to run as SQL Agnet or another proxy account, so it's probably set for one of those.

Use varchar(max)

could it be pathing to isql? I've seen some strange behavior with sybase and MS isql programs and environment paths.

Well said Brian.

and cognospam, if you haven't disparaged people with your first statement, I'm not sure I'd like to see it when you do.

no one here claims MVPs are the...

Looks like they're right here.

Or we have someone upset they didn't get some recognition.

There are plenty of job openings in the US. They can be spread around, but lots of people use SQL 2000. Lots more are looking to upgrade since 2000 support...

You also don't want to shrink it unless some event made it much larger than needed. You should have free space in the file to handle data and index growth...

You have to understand a bit more about the log file to see the difference, but I'll give a short explanation. You can get more details in Books Online.

The log...