Nope, my big ol' tractor + my wife on a riding mower. I need to take a picture. Still probably got 4-5 acres left, but it's raining, so my aching...

Well said Narizz28!

That's cool. I should show some of this stuff on the site.

As an afterthought, I got to cut a lot of grass, about 15 acres over the weekend, but I did put my flag at half mast on Mon morning. The...

Anders, didn't think about that, but I'd assume that someone would not take another call and finish this one. Especially as we'd spent time going through things.

I do think it's...

It's on the way. It's a pretty good amount of change because of some old code, but it's being added to the rewrite site.

Adam has a good explanation, but I'll add mine:

Statistics are a way of guessing what the distribution of data is in a column. So if you have age, SQL "samples"...

you might be able to do this with a data pump, but I'd follow Lanny's advice. It's easy and quick. Import into a staging table and set up a proc...

Call the hardware vendor? Is it a name brand for the box?

Script the table with indexes and then delete the table, clustered index.

We don't have a matching thread view for the forums. We decided to go with a fixed level of forums.

If you want a tree view of articles, it's here: http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/articleList.asp?categoryid=100

Colin,

I think we all aspire to be that DBA

I'm sure that there are some strange tweaks in the benchmarks. All of the submissions are geared towards promoting their own platforms.

I'll say this from my experience, which is limited...

You can limit the total memory SQL Server will use. Out of curiosity, how much memory on the server and what's the SQL Setting.

Can you put the entire error message and the code you're using in the post? Looks like the subject got cut off.