Cross posted from another thread, not necessarily in response to Simon. Though I do think Simon raises great points:

I think I've done a poor job of stating my BI position,...

I think I've done a poor job of stating my BI position, so let me clarify a bit. I don't believe that BI will widely catch on because of the...

Making notes and I should have some writeups tomorrow and over the next week. Trying to hit lots of sessions

You could set up an audit log that was write only (insert only), but the problem is at some point the admin (sa) could change things, drop the trigger to do...

I was actually hoping this editorial would bring to light some of the ways you might classify a junior DBA. It's traditionally been years of experience, which isn't a good...

Thanks for the comments and it's definitely a large, complex area. I think Jamie brings up a great point that there's more to BI than SSAS. Digging through my Kimball...

I agree with hundreds of disks it's unlikely you'll lose both of the mirrored pair, but for smaller installations 4-10 disks, it is a possibility. No idea on probabilities, but...

I haven't done this in awhile, but there really isn't any "acceptable number" of admins. It should be the people that need it and no one else. No extras.

The thing...

http://classicasp.aspfaq.com/general/how-do-i-convert-from-hex-to-int-and-back.html

Lowell is right. It's sockets, not cores. You'll get to use all your CPUs up to 4 CPUs, regardless of cores.

Agree with Colin, there's no good way to do this. If you have an idea of the queries being run, you could see how many of the SARG operators match...

That's funny. I wish I had a Dell contact to send this to

Rob,

Great question and I'd love to know the answer here as well. I'd call MS on this one and get them to give you a real answer. My suspicion is...

Might want to ping the Northern Virginia Users Group as well with this.

If this is a varchar col, this won't help. '' and ' ' are the same.

Can you give a sample of the before and after items in the table?

Both Peter...