Nail biting time in the AL, NL looks fairly settled barring a big collapse.

Nice to see the As in there at the end. Go Moneyball!

Grant Fritchey (9/19/2012)

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Nothing wrong with this maintenance plan. I mean, everything is covered:

1. Check DB Integrity

2. Back Up Db Full

3. Back up Db transaction log

4. Shrink Db

5. Rebuild index

6. Update...

LOL, I forgot that was in there.

jay-h (9/19/2012)

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I used to have a boss who wanted us to wear ties while travelling for business, even on the plane!

Fortunately where I am now is not so rigid, 'golf...

grenm (9/19/2012)

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sorry Steve but that's a fashion fail. Rollback. However, for a DBA, you look remarkably smart (a pressed shirt without food stains).

Whenever we attended work functions together my...

That was "diet day". I had a beer the next afternoon 🙂

ThomasRushton (9/19/2012)

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I have long been an admirer of your shirts, Steve! I have a few similar, but nothing quite as impressive as the ones I normally see you wearing......

peter-757102 (9/19/2012)

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Personally I would happily use compression on some kinds of data, but unfortunatly the primary type of data that comes to mind (blobs) can't be compessed in ány version...

To be clear, if there is a need to delete something, we will look at it.

Server names are inappropriate and can cause an issue. If that is the case,...

read the first part of this

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms187087%28v=SQL.90%29.aspx

Miles Neale (9/18/2012)

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Of those zillion of bytes of data it would be interesting to determine what amount of that data is in relational databases incased in products like SQL Server....

GSquared (9/18/2012)

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Everything old is new again.

"Cloud Computing" is just "dumb-client" born again. 1970s technology with a better marketing-name.

"NoSQL" is just hierarchical, pointer, or flat-file databases born again, with a...

Just pulled it out. As I watched the Broncos implode, I thought at least Ryan and McGahee were doing something for me.

Watch out next week when Fitzgerald will somehow get...

ditto....

WayneS (9/17/2012)

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Signed up.

Is there going to be a SQLServerCentral / RedGate...