Here, here, Mr. Poole for the House of Commons!

Actually I'd love to have a "computed column" that would determine the partition and move data on a rolling basis to slower disks or even optical/tape.

It would be good if...

How about if we change to sqlserverGUITARcentral.com

Points will be awarded for DENSE_RANK as well.

Sorry, go the question sent in and didn't proof it. Points awarded back.

Actually the software we used was a DM product, we just had it hooked into the fax system.'

For us it wasn't a cost issue, it was a management issue. Plus...

We are definitely thinking the Disney thing. I know if I had a 3 day class I could probably convince the family to come and cover part of the hotel...

Thanks for the comments and great suggestions. It's good to hear the feedback and we hope to provide high quality learning to people, not the MCSE/Boot Camp/test prep training, but...

Josh,

Send Mr. Madden an email

Actually, go for that ESPN contest/show with Stuart Scott. I'd watch if you made it!

What's the operating system? Is diskperf enabled for physical counters?

Apologies. Editing the names from the test system resulted in the = being missed. Points have been awarded back for D and the question changed to fix the syntax error.

I'm sitting at Starbucks this morning, writing a little on my book. Since I work at home, sometimes I get out and this is a great place to work.

However,...

I'm slightly confused, why one login? If the Windows logins are used, then use them to auth to the db.

I do like the idea of storing config data in the...

On my XP desktop, I had 2000 Personal installed. Added 2k5 Dev and taskpad still works in EM.

So you would advocate pulling all data from the database server, running it through a utility and then putting it back for further querying?

I would venture the guess the best tool is the database since that's where most of the data is. SED, AWK, etc., apart from not being on Windows in general...