That cache takes a few minutes to catch up sometimes, so you might not see a change right away. You might try changing it to whatever zone matches up with...

It's hard to say without having seen the situation firsthand.

I will say I think it is important to bond with co-workers outside of work. Not all the time, and not...

I don't think you're too far behind. SS2K8 doesn't seem tremendously different from SS2K5. There's a similar paradigm even though there are new features.

If you start working on either 2005...

Not sure what we'll do for this. I need to do something, but it's a busy weekend here at the ranch.

I'll see about doing some prizes next week and hopefully...

Glad you enjoyed it and hope to see you again next year!

I'll talk a little about "seamless" upgrades soon 😉

I can edit them, but it might be some security setting. I'll try to dig through and look at this.

Might be a DST thing, though the switch shouldn't be for a couple weeks.

Once I set the forums to the server time and then set my zone it worked. Maybe...

Gail and Jeff have great suggestions. But make sure you get some good comparisons of what you expect from tempdb during slow periods or "normal periods." Having that comparison is...

Ouch!

Noted and added to the list.

It's hard to say. The advantage of datetime fields is that they understand calendars. They know months, years, etc. and can move through those structures easily. Addition and subtraction are...

He mentioned a rebuild after shrinking, which is what you need to do.

If you shrink, you'll mess all kinds of stuff up with fragmentation.

We ran into issues at JD Edwards with overload on our intranet. It wasn't that complex, but the CMS was issuing over 12k transactions/sec on the system, a plain old...

Do you need all in one database? With SQL Server, it's easy, and you're licensed for developers to install their own edition of SQL Server on their own system.

If it's...

Is the argument against traces that they're too hard to set up or they're too complex? Or is the reporting side?

Setting up a server side trace should be easy and...

How long were you typing? I thought the timeout was 20 minutes.

I'll check if we're still cycling the app pool.