When you say EM won't connect, is this from your workstation or the server console?

Have you checked the SQL Server error log and the Windows event logs for errors?

If you have an existing database and haven't been tracking metrics, the best guess is probably made from looking back at backup sizes. That will let you look forward somewhat.

For...

I'm fine with them releasing new features every month. Just make them a separate download, or maybe a "feature pack" that rolls up features.

Or hey, here's an idea, maybe release...

I think a certain percentage of us experience huge problems and it's incredibly frustrated. I didn't have the issues Frank did, but that's not an excuse. If he wasted a...

At first glance, that shouldn't be too bad. Have you checked the query plans and the indexing? Perhaps your function should create an index on the temp table or maybe...

I have heard SQL Server moving to a 2 year model, but I'd have expected to see a Beta by now if they were. Essentially we're 9 months from the...

Corrected and thanks for catching that.

It's kind of late given that early betas were out in late summer. That's quite some time. Service Pack 1 was out in < six...

Send PASS a note if you already registered. Sorry, don't have a good contact yet, but send it to the general email there.

It will be cool to not have to...

Thanks for the discussion and pointing out where and why this might not be a good idea.

As David pointed out, the idea of these questions is to test your knowledge...

Have backed up 600GB db to one file over 4 years ago with no issues. If you have the space (and time) it works.

Litespeed, SQL Backup, or other backup tools...

I think this is just a move the Windows server to a new domain. If you have Windows logins in the system, they will probably still be linked to the...

XML doesn't make sense in most databases. There are places where it does, but for the most part it is a waste. However using it as a parameter is a...

The query has been corrected to say products.

Thanks Jasmine. Fixed it and sorry for the issues.

According to my reading of this document (http://www.microsoft.com/sql/howtobuy/sqlserverlicensing.mspx) and the example they give (5VM instances on a 4way box), they require 5 licenses. It reads "license per virtual processor", not...