Feel free to suggest most levels or names. I got tired of doing these and hadn't planned on going past 10,000.

We don't have a monitoring system in place and to prevent abuse, you must request a blog from the webmaster.

Ellis, nice one.

I'm a big karma believer and I'd do what sing4you said. Put it in a separate account, make efforts to return it, and let it sit. Preferably an...

I would have tried it the way you were running it. Not sure there's a way outside a cursor with dbcc inputbuffer. Course there are a lot of DMVs, one...

The log does truncate after a successful portion and it does remove the active portion, but are you expecting the file size to change? It will not.

Some interesting comments and thanks for the debate.

I think the idea of replacing xp_cmdshell for specific functions is a great one, and one that I hadn't thought of when I...

Change your procs to insert the result data into a temporary table and then compare those two tables.

Agree with Matt. Show some work and post only once.

There's no way for us to help you with this. You need to do some testing with and without filegroups and see if it's better. You might also want to...

Where does this occur during the install?

Are there services installed? Does SSMS run?

Oh and I'd also add that for those of you that work more than 40, how much of that is because you're a driven person, looking to push your career...

I've always asked what the hours are and what's expected. Someone should formally admit to what they want. Anyone that "hints" at more than what they'll officially say is being...

Ralph,

Hope it gets better and smile, tomorrow's Friday

Matt, thanks for the licensing update. Missed that one.

My friends are using 16GB of RAM and dual quad cores, over allocating the physicals. So they might have 32GB of RAM...

go dowload Log Rescue from Red Gate (I work for Red Gate). It's free and it will read the logs and give you the reversing statements.