your post isn't clearly written. You mentioned fibers, but you say you activated them. Did you mean you haven't?

You haven't really given enough information about what is or is not...

I agree. You're need to rebuild the nonclustered indexes on the new filegroup as well.

AlwaysOn isn't just a 2012 feature, it's an Enterprise 2012 feature, so that can be a consideration.

You haven't really defined the problem, Austin, and we can't see your environment, so...

cksid (7/22/2013)

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It can be frustrating to be the new person who comes in with new ideas and sees antiquated ways that can be changed. When you ask 'Why do...

Enterprise edition is a bit about features (TDE, Paritioning, etc) and you'd have to check if you need any of those.

It's also about scale, but that's hard to judge. 3...

There are serious security questions here. You seem to think that encrypting the communications is enough. I'm not sure you've done that correctly, as the form you send needs to...

I would agree with Sean. However if you need the plain text column for your application to continue to work (legacy code), I'd set it to blank.

If you're looking for something more detailed or organized than this, I doubt you'll find one. The installation is a patch, an install program. The docs will say backup your...

Henry_Lee (7/19/2013)

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How is this different than Password Safe? Just wondering if I'm missing something. I sync through dropbox, but the safe itself is encrypted on my machines/devices and decrypted there...

#2 is scheduled for July 31 as of now, so watch for it.

Don't forget about Andy's seminar as well if you are in the area: http://www.sqlservercentral.com/redirect/articles/100571/

Not right now, but I'll add that to...

Are these SPs or Hotfixes?

I know that some of the installs have command line options so you can script an install.

I believe it's a restart since it adds components to the instance files. However I haven't done this in awhile and can't be sure. I don't have a test instance...

You'd have to check the readme for each service pack/patch. There's not guarantee for these to be similar to each other.

for the most part, each has a setup program, which...

well, cow pies could be this: http://www.cooks.com/rec/view/0,1837,149183-246207,00.html

Or this: http://www.flickr.com/photos/niffgurd/2798003172/