Thanks for the replies, gentlemen. I double-checked the number of fields and width issue, and they correspond to the queries that they're pulling from. Each of the three...

Heh. I think that 2008 re-eval suggestion was mine. 😀

I'm hoping he'll be at PASS, and doubly-hoping I get to go! Maybe someone can corner him there about...

Breaks are essential, as is walking away sometimes. I had one of those "ah-ha!" moments after I got home from work Monday night after working late in a 2.2...

It's not exhaustively scientific, Jeff, but it is interesting. Shea does a lot of cool tests like this, he recently did one on the number of file groups per...

jpowers (8/20/2008)

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... About three months after my wallet was stolen, someone went into a branch of the Credit Union that I never use and tried to withdraw cash from...

Check out this article by MVP Linchi...

I lost my wallet at a movie theater once, but they were long closed when I noticed it so I couldn't call until the next day. It was found...

Tough question, Martin, as there are so many variables. OLAP? OLTP? How many users? How many databases on the server? How many instances on the...

Very interesting, I had not yet run across this option. I can definitely see a use for it, as you show, to avoid breaking the backup chain. Without...

A base slander, Mr. Jones, you shall be hearing from my seconds presently. Might I suggest paintball guns at PASS? 😀

But we come back full circle to Quis custodiet...

Absolutely. I checksum both the data and the data structures before I do backups. But if you can't restore a backup because you don't have read...

Thanks, Jo! I'll forward that to our help desk and we'll see what happens! I did some searching but didn't come across that link, I think my ...

But if I can't read it, how can I verify my backups?

(I love playing devil's advocate and have no problem arguing multiple points of an issue)

In a multi-DBA shop, perhaps...

But can 2008 monitor me copying a backup, compressing it, and loading it to a thumb drive? USB memory drives are up to at least 16gig, so that'll hold...

mike brockington (8/11/2008)

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So, a load of people with low expectations were pleasantly surprised by a canned demonstration (or was it just a video?) from a machine of unknown spec, that...