I don't think employers have to promote general welfare. It was a benefit the unions forced and companies started to offer to compete for workers.

With the way healthcare is changing...

Are you not backing up to different files each day? Going to the same file is a bad idea.

If you use different files, set a script, prob VB or Powershell,...

I have no idea, but I'd call PSS. Something is wrong here and you don't want to be running without the ability to backup or recover.

It's worth the $250.

Something definitely happened. Either someone did a load, index rebuild, some activity that moved lots of pages around.

Andras is correct. What happened is the customer had two files specified in the backup dialog and ended up with a "striped" backup, with both files containing part of the...

It sounds like a file conflict.

Can you manually restore the file.

I agree with Clive. Figure out what your transaction logs require every hour. You don't save space by running more frequent log backups, the same amount of log backup space...

Nothing you can do unless you have a backup. If you have logs, I'd save them off immediately. You might be able to replay some of the transactions, or at...

Rarely. And honestly here's the reason:

I can't afford for stuff to break.

Now with VMs, I'm probably out of excuses. In the past, I beta'd Windows 95 with it's 24 or...

I'm still not sure MS innovates. They enhance, they make things cheaper, more widely available, but they tend to make incremental improvements.

That's worked well to date, but now there's...

This is a great debate and thanks for all the comments. I wasn't trying to limit the discussion in anyway to technology as a solution. Banning could be locking machines...

Nah, We never had it before the upgrade and it's not obvious. I stumbled upon it myself 🙂

I think I've read that they use MySQL, but mostly their "search database" is designed for them as they piece together results from multiple servers, some of which are...

Either way it's gone.

Course it did have a happy ending. I had to explain to my director why I needed a new cell phone. He had me repeat it for...

William,

Those are good points and I tend to agree. It's why I haven't bothered with Silverlight and Popfly. I suspect they'll die out, but if I'm wrong, then I'll worry...