hyperthreading

http://www.intel.com/homepage/land/hyperthreading.htm

http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/server/evaluation/performance/reports/hyperthread.asp

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Are you saying you print the not-null value and op1 and 2 do not run? Shouldn't be the case.

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Since I have 50 servers, a number of which are the development equivalent of the production server, we tend to test on a regular basis just as part of work.

Steve...

We have a db that was 50GB of data. Went to Litespeed, shrank to 8GB. Time went from over an hour to under. I'd get Litespeed and run it to...

Are you working in the DTS Designer or VB? Are you working with the actual name of the steps? You can set the order of the steps, kind of like...

Congratulations!!

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Nice reference. Thanks

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Sorry, it's what I see. The majority of developers, by sheer numbers, have been developing less than 5 years. They lack experience by definition, they've been working for a company...

IBM, Comdisco, Sunguard.

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nicely put.

It's not that developers cannot be trusted, it's that they must earn trust. And controls must be implemented, especially now iwth the Sarbannes-Oxley act. Stupid mistakes that impact the...

Database Theory - so much stuff out there, none I recommend. This is a pain to search out on the web. I'd recommend books by Chris Date for this.

http://www.microsoft.com/sql/evaluation/anniversary/timeline.asp

What kind...

I still diasgree with allowing developers to schedule and run packages. In the real world, developers are not conservative by nature, not giving to performing good tests.

Therefore having them schedule...

FMS Software also has some tools

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You can't measure it. In fact, you can't measure many things. Your decision to hire, or the decision to hire you has a lot of emotion involved. I mean A...

Wow, memories......

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