Yikes, I go away for a few hours and everyone's getting upset.

Please take a more friendly and professional tone. We can disagree and argue points without behaving poorly.

Richard,

I don't think it's an extension or it's like a DLL. The premise of SOA is truly disconnected, lously coupled systems. If system A needs system B to do something,...

There are definitely people using BI/OLAP. I don't dispute that and I'm sure more companies are implementing these technologies all the time.

I guess my feeling is that star schemas and...

Thanks for the comments and I don't think the plans are to make things more lively (flash, etc.), but rather cleaner. I've never thought that there was much wrong with...

I think config files are a great place for XML. Beats the heck out of the Windows 3.1 style ini files.

Always in stored procedures. SQL Injection is a good reason for this.

Do you know how many grades a student has? Is it consistent?

If not, you'd be better off doing this in the client somewhere. Loop through the records and display the...

http://vyaskn.tripod.com/hierarchies_in_sql_server_databases.htm

Is SQL Server getting restarted or the Windows host?

Could be different things. Check automatic updates, there have been a few recently.

Also, how long has the server run fine and how...

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...