GilaMonster (10/15/2011)

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BTW, in my last presentation on Friday I was trying to give a brief overview if indexing and testing. Not enough of a detailed explanation according to Gail as she...

I'm definitely an Apple guy overall. I love my iPhone and the iPad is nice, but I found I needed more than a tablet. Went with an Air, and all...

Late, here, but that does seem like a lot of time on overhead things. I don't know that I think documentation should be cut, but I might try to cut...

Chad Crawford (10/14/2011)

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Here's a shot of Steve giving his presentation[/url]. If you look close, you can see his Kilt peeking out from behind the podium. Hope the...

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Isn't that already the case? (at least if my wife isn't reading this...

I'm not that old....yet

Ninja is correct. The verifyonly will not necessarily prevent corruption. You need to do a restore, or mount the backup file using one of the tools, such as Red Gate's...

First, look at he time the current error log spans versus the time the older ones span. If you reboot less often now, less patches, etc., the log grows larger....

Was listening on and off. Carpenter is steller.

The problem, which I agree with Billy Bean on, is that in a short series, either 5 or 7 games, it's a toss...

I agree with Jeff. There's no optimal size. There's the size that is needed for the workload that is running. Whatever concurrent operations are running that need temp space need...

Some of this is in DMVs.

Here's a set of queries that shows some I/O for database files, a few more as well: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/13748067/SQL%20Server%202008%20Diagnostic%20Information%20Queries%20%28September%202011%29.sql

Fingers are crossed. Bye week hasn't hit me this week, but next week...

2 favorites (Rangers, Brewers) advance, 2 underdogs (Cards, Tigers)

Gonna be good championship series coming up.

I say it's a Tigers/Brewers WS.