That may be true. It hasn't been documented AFAIK or disclosed by MS, but perhaps it is SHA2_512. That...

GilaMonster (9/23/2014)

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That job runs every hour, so if...

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Blue Mancunian (9/22/2014)

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Thanks, Steve.

But do you agree "if extra databases/load been put on to a SQL Server, the existing database performance will certainly more or less be affected."?

Will TempDB...

This isn't disclosed as it would be a security issue for the platform if someone were to be able to duplicate this.

I usually answer that ultimately it's a guess, and we might need to experiment because it's hard to measure workload. I can get avg CPU needs, space needs, memory footprint,...

Biml

http://www.sqlservercentral.com/stairway/100550/

This might help as well: http://sqlblog.com/blogs/jonathan_kehayias/archive/2010/12/29/learn-who-started-that-trace-with-the-default-trace.aspx

I don't believe there's a way in T-SQL. Certainly you might be able to manage this by hitting the registry, but that would be some external program, not your script.

I...

Tavis Reddick (9/22/2014)

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Will nobody think of the developers? 🙂

Seriously, if humankind had adopted "If it ain't broke, don't fix it" we'd still be living in caves and drinking out of...

Points will likely come when the sync job runs. We have issues at times with points not recording for threads, so we have a job to re-calculate them based on...

Go for it, Keith. We'd definitely like one.

There was no chance to get the log chain back. The intervals for...

An early decision for me. Both of us had almost all our players done in the early game yesterday and just enough forward movement for me to have a good...