Lynn is correct. Each user needs a CAL. They can access all the servers.

20 users, 4 (or 5, or 6, or  7 ) instances - Need 20 CALs

You certainly could use variables, but you'll be changing a variable value at the beginning. Is this harder or different than search/replace?

Should be working now.

It's crazy. Went to practice Thur night, shorts, 70F+. Got cooler after, but then snow Fri and i-70 closed from Denver to the Kansas border. Better Sat, and too warm...

I mostly agree with Grant, and I do appreciate Jeff's points in the first response. What I'll say, however, is that things take time. There are people that have been...

It's a good conference, and more social than most. Worth the trips at least once if you engage with the community.

There are plenty of other good conferences. DevConnections...

It was 70F here yesterday.

*Hold my beer*

It was 74 here yesterday. Drove around in shorts, t-shirt, sunroof open.

This morning

Take it, Tim. It would be good to have 3-4 examples of why it's good or not good.

OK, another test with larger files and this seems to work. If I have files that are set with a certain amount of data, with sizes like this:

From my reading and testing, once you run dbcc shrinkfile(file, emptyfile), the file is marked as not ready for more data. If you cancel this, I'm not sure if the...