I just don't see the Red's winning a game... and I am a big Red's fan! Roy Oswalt is something like 23-2 against the Red's lifetime and Cole Hammels...

Red's win the division with a walk off home run in the bottom of the 9th to break a 2-2 tie. First time in the playoffs in 15 years......

The Red's magic number is 1.....

Looks like the AL East and the NL Wild Card will go down to the last few games. The Giants and the Padres finish...

10 games left and the Rockies are 2 1/2 out of first.... with two teams to climb over... not impossible... but very, very difficult.

Looks like my Reds will win...

Predictions:

NL:

Rockies and Giants will battle out the Division Title to the very end... maybe the Padres get hot and make it even more interesting.

Reds get knocked off in first or...

My Red's offense is almost dead and they struggled in extra innings to take 2 of 3 from the basement Pirates.... blew a 1-0 game in the 9th with two...

I have a two node cluster Win2008\SQL2008 and has been fine for a few months. All of a sudden now I try to fail over one instance to the other...

In talking with Microsoft if you run a kill spid with statusonly and the io and cpu are not progressing the process is dead so it is OK to restart....

OK, But since it is currently in a rollback state if I restart SQL Server I have a feeling the DB will still be in some type of recovery state...

Do you have an auto rebuild indexes task running? That would explain it.

A mentor of mine once said that if you want to grow financially and technically in this industry you must move every three to four years. Otherwise, it is career...

As far as changing the service account password... well... Our company is under a microscope right now and some of our systems are being reviewed very carefully. A SOX audit...

In SQL Server 200 no, In 2005 and 2008 yes. It stores the userid/password in the Integration Svc package now. I found this out the hard way as...

If you created Maintenance plans with the 'sa' userid they will fail after the password change. You will have to go in and edit them for the new password.

I have been working for the same company since I graduated from college in 1985 in IT. I have moved up from Computer Operator to the Database Admin group starting...