Before you call CSS, I would check the underlying SAN LUNs and be sure there isn't contention there. The SAN admins often look at averages, but if they've carved up...

CO is leading the division, so I'm not sure how much we count a month of baseball. A few year ago the Yanks were 10 out at the All Star...

Interesting thoughts, and we're definitely looking to add something here. We have been debating about some of the ratings of articles/scripts, but posts make sense as well. We'll kick it...

Here's an article on this site discussing the issue: http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Performance+Tuning/adviceoncount/808/

What's the nod you want to give? I'm not completely sure what you're looking for here.

Is this a way to note how many shares of a topic? Or how many...

milzs (4/29/2013)

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"Factivism" is fine as long as you use the "true" facts and not skewed facts. As we all know, the "facts" can be twisted and manipulated into whatever...

Had a good time in Fargo this weekend, at SQL Saturday #173. It's a nice town, good weather for us, and MS has a large facility there that is the...

Lynn Pettis (4/29/2013)

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If the emailed report is static (the data for the report is included in the report) and does not need any direct (or indirect) access to SQL Server,...

There are lots of opportunities. This past weekend was on in CO: http://coloradogivecamp.org/

Feel free to participate or organize your own in your area.

I would guess many people could, but probably not quickly. I do like that we teach...

Greg.Jackson (4/25/2013)

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Steve,

I'm a religious follower of the SQLServerCentral.com site. Also thrilled to hear that you are coming here to Fargo. (That's what I call home.) You'll be disappointed to hear...

SQL Server 2008 R2 is not slower running backups. In all likelihood you have some configuration or hardware issue with your connection to the SAN. Have you looked at wait...

SQL 2000 has a version column. You can use that if you store the previous value, which would require some job that grabs this daily and looks for changes.

You could do that. Give you some abstraction.

If it's acceptable, you could let someone edit/add information in Access linked to the table.

If locks are an issue, you could have them use Access in staging table and then...