rodjkidd (6/6/2013)

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Steve Jones - SSC Editor (6/6/2013)

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rodjkidd (6/6/2013)

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Anybody from the thread heading to SQL Saturday Edinburgh?

I'm flying up tonight. Looks like the weather will be good - even though I'll...

rodjkidd (6/6/2013)

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Anybody from the thread heading to SQL Saturday Edinburgh?

I'm flying up tonight. Looks like the weather will be good - even though I'll be indoors most of the time!...

lptech (6/6/2013)

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Looks like we need to get introduce deduplication to the DBMS world. In the virtual world, VMWare and Hyper V only keep one copy of the same block in...

We have lots of scripts to find fragmentation:

http://www.sqlservercentral.com/search/?q=fragmentation&t=s

AFAIK, the native Windows backup utility doesn't back up the SQL Server logs. You should use the SQL Server backup command (BACKUP LOG TO DISK) and then the Windows Backup...

This was posted in the editorial.

Like this?

I used to think it was inevitable, but now I question whether A-Rod will actually catch Willie Mays

http://espn.go.com/espn/otl/story/_/id/9301536/major-league-baseball-suspend-20-players-including-alex-rodriguez-ryan-braun-part-miami-investigation

He's very close, but it's possible he'll never play again.

I assume Jeter...

David.Poole (6/5/2013)

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There is a saying in the Agile world. If it hurts do it more often.

What it means is that if you have a pain point then work through...

GilaMonster (6/4/2013)

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"What would happen to your business if you lost the entire server room right now? Do you want to gamble the business and everyone's...

Brandie Tarvin (6/3/2013)

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Speaking of SQL_Variant, does anyone here actually use it?

I've never found a reason to use it or a need that made sense, so I'd love to hear...

I would use UNC paths. I know they're supported.

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/varund/archive/2010/09/02/create-a-sql-server-database-on-a-network-shared-drive.aspx

http://www.brentozar.com/archive/2012/01/sql-server-databases-on-network-shares-nas/

You should read this: http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Best+Practices/61537/

What you've posted isn't clear and doesn't give enough information to begin to build a solution.

Brandie Tarvin (5/30/2013)

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I'm not sure I would sacrifice the DVD drive for an SSD. I guess it depends on whether or not I could get stuff on my portable USB...

I agree with the resistance of moving to the cloud.

I disagree with the resistance of making on-premises IT faster and more responsive.