Some good suggestions and thanks for the responses. I'm surprised no Heinlein is in there. I re-read The Moon is a Harsh Mistress last year and thoroughly enjoyed it. I...

Try this: http://www.sqlservercentral.com/columnists/sSnisarenko/customerdatabaseupdateapracticalsolution.asp

or Packager from Red Gate: http://www.red-gate.com/products/sql_packager/index.htm

Not sure what you mean? Can you provide more details how the keys are used?

WhinnySQL?

Charcoll,

If you're looking for 8+ servers, I'd look at a complete rack in a colocation facility with you providing the equipment. you can purchase what you want and upgrade when...

I'm not in a cave, rather I've been reading the BI thing since 1999 when SQL Server 7 was in beta. It hasn't caught on as the mainstream technology because...

or their problems

Always been a Cowboy fan, but actually lived in London for the 87, Giants-Broncos Super Bowl. Rooted for the Broncos to lose (they did) and now I live in Denver,...

The commercials are part of the experience, but I agree they get to be a bit much.

As for rugby, I played for two years. Very enjoyable, albeit bruising.

OK, I'm confused. I did some checking on fuel ratings at the EPA site and they have the Jetta and Golf diesels as around 40MPG for diesel, which is less...

I saw you make a basic note at the top, then only comment complex, not obvious logic. And then add notes when you change something. Other than that, keep it...

Thanks for the update Gregory, that one was confusing for me. I'm guessing you had some bad plan cached.

One thing to try next time is a DBCC FREEPROCCACHE to flush...

From what I understand, Colin is right. A checkpoint should be about once a minute, but during batch processing, it's possible that they could be delayed, meaning that you have...

Vodaphone appears to do some T-Mobile. Out of luck for me and my wife uses T-Mobile, but she loves her Sidekick.

Maybe I should just go for one of these:

Well, we are American centric here, kind of goes with the territory. Reading a little about cricket, I think that may be the winner for non-motor sports. Some type of...