Tim,

Thanks for the insight. I'm not really expecting people to get rich working there, but I'd hope that someone with a fulltime job can afford a small apartment, food, a...

For the record, I'm not a shareholder of Wal-Mart and never have been. I've looked at the stock, never bought it.

I'll also get a little more on topic. This was...

Just a joke. Some of my best friends are developers and I like to give them a hard time.

The game was mostly for fun, picking fun at developers is a...

Apologies. We do try to proof them, but mistakes happen. Anyone thinking they can do better is welcome to submit questions.

Question corrected, and points awarded back.

Have you checked the SQL setup log? I think it's sqlstp.log or something like that in your Windows folder. Run setup and then check for recent files and you should...

Sorry, rereading it I realize that the "especially students" doesn't make as much sense now as it did yesterday

It seems to me that...

I liked the post about a conscious. And I pretty much agree with that. We try to run SQLServerCentral.com as we would want to be treated. If we have a...

If you are up against some limits, it might make sense. It does give you good headroom, but I haven't seen great studies. There was an impressive demo at TechEd,...

I can answer a few, but I'm not sure what some are:

1. I've used this (http://www.sqlservercentral.com/columnists/sjones/codingstandardspart1.asp), but there is a standard for metadata: ISO-11179

2. If you mean auditing, there are...

Some SAN vendors have classes on their products. Andy went to on at Dell when he bought their product.

A few:

http://www.sql-server-performance.com/forum/topic.asp?ARCHIVE=true&TOPIC_ID=1892

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnsql2k/html/sql_asphosting.asp

There is a setupsql.log or something in Windows or sys32. Find the most recently modified files and it will stand out. That might help. Otherwise a $249 call to ...

Already started: http://server.glypho.com:2401/

Have never seen an alternative and Andy and I have been talking to Red Gate for 3 years to release this.

As far as sysdepends issues. If someone drops/recreates an object,...

It is different in that you are creating an object in the schema of dbo rather than the user. Subtle, but a difference.

The category applies to that version, not necessarily...