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.

Brandie Tarvin (5/30/2013)

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WayneS (5/29/2013)

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Personally, my new laptop is 32gb ram, with multiple SSD drives (I have plans for presentations with many VMs running...). I'm still getting stuff installed on it,...

How many peppers did Peter Piper pick when he picked pickled peppers while partaking of peas and parsnips while picking peppercorns?

I have 16GB in my laptop, and SSDs, and it runs great for me.

My wife and son each have 8GB for their W8 machines and are happy overall with how...

Yes, though all the applications will have their connection strings change.

Maybe put the NET USE in a startup proc? Execute it on service start so that the mapping is created?

djackson 22568 (5/29/2013)

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I don't have an opinion on the error table. However, I do have an opinion about what you are doing.

Using this forum to point out something like...

Dave62 (5/29/2013)

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I've been using sp_Blitz for a while and love it! It's an invaluable tool that no DBA should be without.

A minor correction: The article mentions version 16...

This may persist, or it may not. As you've done it, I'd think it should, though as Jeff noted, you need to restart the SQL Server services and have the...