Lowell,

Apologies for that. I've fixed that article and we're looking through others to try and get these corrected.

Very cool! Thanks for the info.

From what I've seen, it takes about 8 months for the first cert, then up to 18 months for all exams to get out. The last one (BI) came out...

Thanks, I'll try to figure out what's wrong there. I'm in CO and it seems to work fine here.

I think from my conversations with people, that most people still have lots of SS2K out there. As much as MS would like us to believe that SS2K5 has a...

There are different dynamics for different systems. I'd still run the same types of base metrics and then as you learn more about how the systems are performing, you can...

I have this between two dbs as well and homebrew's solution works good.

However if I did much tempdb work, I'd change that collation to match the db that gets used...

And you need to fix the hardware! It's a problem that tends to get worse.

What the problems you're experiencing? That might be the first step in getting advice. I think both platforms perform well. It's more a matter of the application working well with...

A little late to the game, but why are you trying to attach the MDF across the network? Maybe we have a better alternative.

Where are you located?

Great point, Hugo, and I agree. You do want to know about reads.

I hadn't thought about comments, but that's a great point as well.

Rebuilding indexes is something you need to do after big changes in data. Since you truncate first and then load, you should be OK.

You might drop all nonclustered indexes for...

If you need help to generate an ICS file, you probably need to go to an Exchange or .NET site dealing with mail. Once that is done, we can help...

I pinged Dr. Andras. FYI, he worked on the Log Rescue tool.