You might want to repost the question in here as the subjects get cut off sometimes when people get to the post.

Not sure about the question. Doesn't sybase have a...

It's not quite as simple as we'll buy something else. Many companies have expertise in areas and it's a big decision to switch technologies as people may not want to,...

Thanks for the complement and glad you like the site. It's as much Jeff, Matt, and others as me here making things work.

My co-host in the middle was Khali. She's...

My one dog doesn't like peanut butter. First dog I've seen like that. American cheese folder around the pill works well.

giving a horse aspirin is a pasty material. We've tried...

My comment in the meeting was that it's cheaper for SQL Server, which to some extent means that it's perceived as less valuable. You spend $100k on an Oracle install...

glad to hear someone likes the chaotic atmosphere of development. I definitely prefer the routine, mostly boring, occassionally exciting work.

sql_logins only gives you some of the logins for the server.

All logins are in server_principals./

You want to avoid bookmark lookups if you can, but you cannot avoid them. They are a part of every system, since you can't index for everything, and you don't...

You are welcome and please feel free to post more questions if you have them.

You use the trace file to move the other system databases, not master. Master cannot be moved while SQL Server is started.

If you read the instructions carefully, moving the master...

Moved to 2000

I tend to agree with what's listed above, but I think you need to understand how SQL works. All changes (new, updates, deletes) to data are written to the transaction...

Yes , you need to clarify a bit more what you are looking for. It's too open-ended a question.

I agree with both above. I typically use batches to remove small amounts of rows since I can't always move the data and truncate the table, but that would be...

SQL could cause the pagefile to grow. It depends on how you have the OS configured. DBCC does take a lot of memory and disk to run.