Fast/Cheap/Correct: choose two. And we shouldn't question established IT orthodoxy: look what happened to Galileo!

Wellington also had the advantage of having the gentleman English magician Jonathan Strange, at least...

I think I'm a cultural misfit. I've been friends to this day with a group that I worked with at a game company 30 years ago and I was...

Matt Miller (#4) (7/28/2015)

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Sure - the fully automated factory is a few years off, but even that is possible. All that stands between us and a fairly major problem is...

I'm guessing you're an AT&T or Comcast customer? 😛

We don't (normally) laugh (sometimes blatant stupidity is criticized, which yours is not)....

I do like simple status reports like this that are easily emailed, I send myself a summary of my nightly DBCCs and suspect pages. I look at half a...

There was once upon a time a Linux screen saver that cycled through various BSOD screens -- mainframes, Amiga, etc. I was always amused by it and it was...

++HappyCustomer

Thanks, Lowell!

You can use the wizards to help you learn T-SQL: for example, create a backup using the GUI/wizard then click the Script button to get the T-SQL behind the command....

Gary Varga (5/29/2015)

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Knowing that my more advanced maths was either lacking or nonexistent I decided to do the edX.com. Unfortunately, Calculus 1A: Differentiation course syllabus suggests that that they are...

Very interesting (peculiar) problem, Jeffrey, I'm glad you got it fixed! I would have loved to see some DBCC results on that table.

mfranksubs (5/29/2015)

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Apart from all the technical issues, you should also consider legal requirements. Student data has privacy protections based on federal laws commonly referred to as "FERPA" (Google it).

Commingling data...

Jeff Moden (5/28/2015)

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Wayne West (5/28/2015)

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I think my favorite spurious correlation is the line spouted by the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster. They have a graph that shows a...

I find it interesting that Brent Ozar's sp_Blitz complains if you change the min or max memory settings as a "non-default server config". I appreciate the warning as you...

Gary Varga (5/28/2015)

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Statistics is difficult. Analysis of statistics even more so.

There are two things I find funny about statistics: