The first post is there for you to describe the poll. This won't change as it's a fundamental piece of the forums.

A bug with the service putting out the ads. It should be corrected.

We are rearranging things on this page to relieve some of the pressure.

This is fixed.

At the bottom of the reply page, there's a section that says "Last 10 posts". You can open it and see the message to which you are replying.

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...