Might sound obvious - but I would go back to the person who asked you to decommission the database and ask them what they mean.

"There is no such thing as...

Nice question - thanks

+1 - Apart from that - good question 😀

Good reminder of basic maths.

Thanks for the question

matt groening

Good article Paul - thanks.

Things will and do go wrong - no one should try to kid themselves otherwise.

The main thing we can do is our best damage limitation exercise.

Jan Van der Eecken (1/28/2013)

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Koen Verbeeck (1/28/2013)

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Apparently, there are 4 winter months? 🙂

Anyway, I don't have AdventureWorks 2012 installed on this machine, so I had to guess. Quite a pity,...

Hi Gaz,

Thanks for that - I was going to work on max size X number of entries anyway - unless anyone came up with anything more scientific.

Friday...

Nice and straightforward way to end the week - thanks.

Can't see there'll be much debate about this one!

ScottPletcher (1/23/2013)

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Btw, I suggest using the clear datepart name, not the obscure abbreviations -- it can help you/others later, and avoid having to use Books Online just to lookup the...

Have a read through this link - inner joins may not be appropriate if some of your tables are empty

Got it right as I thought that "either" was the most probable answer.

Like most people are saying here I think the real answer is "it depends".

I can't help you out with pentaho as I don't use the product myself. Their support website is here, so they may be able to offer you more....

Getting data into a SQL server database can take many routes.

You could use web pages, SSIS, BCP, Bulk insert for example.

Is the data in text files (for example)

Can you give...