June, or end of May. I'll be at SQL Sats
- Brisbane
- Christchurch
- Melbourne

I like the "try to make it righter" approach. It's what we tend to do at Redgate. We try to build good code. We work quickly, but we constantly try...

I completely agree. While a hardware disaster might merely need 2-3 full backups, a subtle bug or malicious attack across a short time might need some from weeks ago. I...

This is almost always data related. You need to look at the .csv in a text editor like notepad++ that allows you to see characters that might not be visible....

The mobile phone usage, or overusage, is interesting in ways. On one hand, that access to information is amazing. On the other, this does mean we sometimes create new critical...

I wouldn't install office as this increases surface attack area and creates the need for patching here. Install Office on any other machine and let that machine do the work...

I'd say that perfection from the users' perspective is something different. I was writing more in terms of what we'd consider too software engineering or strong, robust architecture or development...

bcp works with text files, with any delimeter, so a csv would work.

Keep in mind with log shipping the databases aren't in sync unless there are no changes on the primary after the last log backups is sent to the secondary. When...

AFAIK, if you truncate the table, the pages allocated to the NDX are deallocated. They are then cleaned up with the ghost cleanup process.

If there is data in...

Is this for testing or production? If production, you're not going to get support if you have issues. Pay for RHEL in production. For a lab, just do it.

It works on CentOS, but not officially supported.

Congrats, and enjoy. Sorry I'll miss you here, but I'll be on an airplane that day.