It's so those hard smashes will leave a rug burn!!!

Fuzz on a tennis ball? Who cares is the answer, unless you're interviewing for...

Michael,

That's a good point and I hadn't thought about ETL becoming more a developer's area. However far SSIS has improved the ETL capabilities of SQL Server, it's also left behind...

Expecting more hours is definately illegal, but it's often assumed.

It can be hard either way. Taking care of errands, meeting the cable guy, etc. are easier when there are two...

Using full scale disk encryption, like Pointsec, is a good start, but I don't think developers should have real corporate data on their laptops. Obfsucate or scramble the data for...

Modern Physics in 21 days?

I did not like Particle Physics in my college days. I somehow figured out the math and could solve the problems, but didn't understand the meaning...

, actually I work in journalism now. Not sure how I got to this place after bartending in college, an economics degree, a hatred...

Simon,

you're right on there. Extra hours typically mean someone didn't plan properly. The true "it just broke" emergencies are few and far between.

I believe only in the ALTER or RESTORE statements.

You can also open each and then "Save AS" to the new server or SAve As a Structured Storage file in the file system and move them.

Sugesh' technique is the...

A few things. First, what caused the log to grow? This stores a record of the work done in the db, and if there's a lot of work (inserts, updates,...

Joseph,

Were your dbs created with files that size or have they grown? If you want smaller data files, meaning file groups, you can easily create those and then move the...

First, is this Enterprise edition?

Second, each app gets 4GB of virtual memory, which is mapped and swapped out to physical memory. I'm not sure what the Delta stat is, but...

Lynn has a great question, but you don't necessarily need the log for a restore. The data file backup is what you need for the restore. The log, if you're...

Oh come on Lynn, we could get a 1000 post thread going

Actually it's kind of become fun to watch them go.

It's coming. We should go into limited Beta next week and a enw site in 2-3 weeks, which will have tags and other sorting options, including voting and comments on...