Thanks for the comments and notes.

A few thoughts on reputation. I'm not sure that it's possible to build a system that shows off reputation in a score. There is a...

At 45 this year, what's different? I see very little black and white, and lots of gray.

Even in areas I have strong opinions, I realize that they are strong in...

Congrats, and I'd say an extremely high percentage...

Lutz has great questions. You haven't well defined the problem. I think you probably know what is missing, but from our perspective it doesn't make sense.

If you can list out...

That's exactly what I had, and I guess...

For stopping on failures, the OS may have a mechanism for sending an email on service stop. Depends on your version.

For manual stops, I'm not sure there is anything other...

Create function: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms186755.aspx

Wrap that around phil's code.

You are a brave man to even suggest...

Burninator (1/13/2012)

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I’d like to build a homeless shelter that would be ever so much more than a cot and soup kitchen. It would provide a place for people to...

LOL, I'm guessing you'd have more enjoyable things to do.:w00t:

Full backups will include some log records and they may have lots of yours because of the suspension. That's definitely the log issue.

Remove mirroring or get it working again.

Jack Corbett (1/13/2012)

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The only team that I'd be shocked to see in the Super Bowl would be the Broncos. They have a good defense, but I don'...

I think it'll end up Packers - Ravens.

And I have to hope no-one around...

Dev (1/13/2012)

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I understand it. My point is shrinking the log will be more effective after log truncation.

Per BOL:

Shrinking can occur only while the database is online and,...

ben.mcintyre (1/12/2012)

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As primarily a c# coder, I emphatically disagree with this proposition.

In fact, being able to compile frequently (any I often do it once every couple of minutes) allows me...