First game of the season for me last night. 4 innings at third, no balls hit to me. 1 inning at first, got two throws over there for outs, but...

Interesting idea. I think there's some merit here. Ranting on FB...

Missed it, heard about it, and wished I'd seen it....

Not sure you need a "real name". You do need to...

TravisDBA (4/23/2012)

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I undertand your feelings, Steve. However, one question does come to mind. Why would you post "private" information on the Internet in the first place? Particularly, on a "security...

First baseball game for me tonight, under the lights. Ugh, as I get older, I hate lights.

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?