It's likely you would get 10% back, but there's no guarantee.

Go take it. It's a good learning experience and who knows what will happen.

I've given tests like this and they're almost always basic screens. It's to prevent someone from wasting...

year() is what I'd use, but datepart() works as well.

I'm not sure that you can start pool those instances in any way. It's possible that you might be able to programmatically drive Virtual Server and start up new instances...

I always like to create a separate login. temporary if possible (set a note in Outlook to delete it) with a strong password.

I'd consider that it might need to be...

We get nHibernate errors here every day (he said with his head in the sand)

The LEDs don't get hot at all. After I shot the podcast, I could turn off the lights and immediately unscrew the bulbs. I shot with LEDs first for that...

I'd question all third party apps on this.

We implemented Dynamics about 8 years ago and they said they required SA to run the application. I dug in and we determined...

I've wondered about the vertical windmills as well, but I've seen some scientific analysis that seems to show they work well. There's blade cuting into the wind slightly as well...

http://www.tonymarston.net/php-mysql/stored-procedures-are-evil.html

Your maintenance plans should be running under specific accounts, likely the Agent account, but you could set it to a particular account and then run Profiler for that particular account....

You can use DTS to do this, however you might want to import into a staging table, then update/insert into your regular tables.

You an also just link the Access tables...

3 Instances can be a lot, and you definitely want to limit memory. It might not be linearly, so not necessarily 1GB per instance, but you do need to leave...

And the Mariah, vertical windmill (darius or egg-beater shape) doesn't seem to affect birds. You have a relatively narrow impact zone as opposed to the large sweep of horizontal blades.

PacWind...

I've heard about the pumping of water, it's really a "gravity well", using current power to move something higher, creating potential energy, and then gravity to bring it back down...