SQLDCH (4/19/2012)

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Markus (4/19/2012)

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I heard an interesting stat last night.

Jamie Moyer pitching for the Rockies and got the win and with that win he became the oldest player ever to win...

master/model/msdb usually are small enough, with few transactions, so including them with binaries is fine. Tempdb I treat as another user database.

Here's how I see it.

If you use varchar(2k) in all fields, it's usually easier to import the data, especially if you have quality issues. Once it's in there, you have...

Or this (my drink of choice tonight)

It might be corrupt or not have uploaded properly. Can you ask the sender to re-send?

I usually have Windows and SQL binaries installed on the C drive. I move the data and log file defaults to another drive (preferably 2 separate physical drives) and then...

What are the other items? And how do they relate, if at all?

A friend uses SCCM, but they break servers into multiple groups. Each month they patch, but they run tests on various test systems first and work on the patch process....

Nice, that's an interesting system. I worry that the key file might not scale, but perhaps it does. Do you rotate key files often?

L' Eomot Inversé (4/13/2012)

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I think you missed one important part from Steve's message: "So if you move a partially contained database to a server that has a matching login, the...

SQLRNNR (4/12/2012)

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Sean Lange (4/12/2012)

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SQLRNNR (4/12/2012)

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Steve Jones - SSC Editor (4/12/2012)

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Both printers here are acting up. One doesn't want to inject ink on the the paper. The other keeps sending...

I'm thinking Office Space combined with the Letterman show, tossing stuff...

Hugo took the words out of my mouth. It's mainly for HA stuff, or potentially in the future, movement of dbs to new hosts without the clients knowing. Kind of...

Both printers here are acting up. One doesn't want to inject ink on the the paper. The other keeps sending offline messages to the computers.

Today is a day I...

Cliff Jones (4/12/2012)

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Steve Jones - SSC Editor (4/12/2012)

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The AD Credential thing is interesting. If there are matching AD credentials at the instance level, the authentication takes place there first, which...