Pettite and CC out, and the Yanks still near the top of MLB : http://espn.go.com/mlb/standings

And the Rockies are officially in the doghouse. Tied for the worst record, behind KC, CIN,...

Michael Meierruth (7/6/2012)

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Steve,

I got a real bang seeing that photo on the right hand side of your editorial. Not many people can say they actually ever used a card punch...

Brandie Tarvin (7/6/2012)

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Hey, guys. I'm going to post something and if it's inappropriate, please let me know.

A lot of people have been displaced due to the recent East Coast flooding...

thadeushuck (7/6/2012)

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Cloud computing is just another executive buzz word Ponzi scheme to con a bunch of money out of the everyday honest IT/DBA/Developer workman. Let's join the cloud AND fire...

This might help: http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Administration/sqlserveralerts/1435/

In terms of changing settings, alerts don't detect this. You'd be better off using Policy Based Management to prevent, or alert you when these occur (DOP/tempdb).

For size...

You'd have to describe the sequence of what you did. If you tried to apply a log with the LSN earlier than what's already been applied, it might not error...

It would be contained databases, if they were contained. Only the basis for it in 2012.

I do like the T-SQL enhancements. IIF and Window functions, but my favorite would be...

If you can break your reindexing into separate transactions (separate tables), then running a log backup in the middle can help.

Or use a script that reindexes only some tables when...

Try the key for the instance and the setup. I think I see mine in there. It's MSDN, so hard to tell if that's the right key

The other challenge is understanding what you use. I've always hated the $$/MB charges for phones for a couple reasons. One is that I have no idea how much MB...

There is asymmetric and symmetric encryption in SQL Server. You can create keys there (even temp ones) and do the encryption.

What PGP does, and most encryption algorithms is take a...

You can shrink the specific file for that data, but make sure you leave some free space for maintenance operations (Reindexing) and data growth.

Completely agree with Gilamonster. Differentials save time in recovery, and save space on your disk with smaller backups than fills.

However you need the full backup, and if you implement differentials,...

I'd concur with Adam, both on the analysis and advice. Tempdb can benefit, if you use it a lot, but you have to test.

USE master

GO

EXEC xp_regread 'HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE','SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Microsoft

SQL Server\80\Registration','CD_KEY'