Thanks for the great replies and I've enjoyed reading them.

William, thoughts and prayers with you and I hope things work out with your wife. My wife lost her mother at...

Not sure where you'd find web chats other than some place like AOL. There are all kinds of chat rooms there.

A few things to keep in mind on the survey.

Some companies do skew it. I worked for one guy that was horrible, but very concerned about image, so they would...

We have them here, SQL Junkies does, SQLTeam as well.

Seems like lots of US companies still do 10 days (2 weeks) a year and 5-8 sick days, 9-12 holidays. Lots of tech companies have gone to 15 days Vcation...

Sorry, US only. That's what the survey was and I'm in the US. Not sure if you could do one for the world since the standard and expected quality of...

Remind me at PASS if you go and I'll get you a beer while you chuckle

Be sure they stop by and say "hi"!

I think they should put it out there, but they don't usually listen to me

I'm not sure of the Tablet is a flop....

, I know, I know. That's bad.

We were trying out a new email system for our vendor mailing yesterday and the load happened a...

Ouch

Sorry about the grammar. I found a few mistakes and fixed them above. Course, maybe a few of you are as tired as I and didn't catch them.

I don't think...

Check the Windows System log as well. It should contain more info.

I agree that one log works ok. Multiple data files can sometimes perform better because multiple threads are used for access, but since logs are written sequentially, not sure it...

You do need to use that restore command to get the logical file names. They are returned in a result set, so you can store that in a temp table...