From a pure hardware point of view, NOT taking into consideration optimising the software like mu_rauer said, investigate RAIDing some SSDs.

Compare...

I prefer silence. I find music distracting.

I think it's interesting that just yesterday I read "A Farewell to Arms" By John Carlin. If private transport was controlled centrally during some point in the journey, that central...

Thanks Gianluca, that looks like a neat solution.

*Obligatory mention of CarShark here and here.*

Edit: PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE implement the automatic underlining of links!

Congratulations on a hundred thousand posts! 😉

And yes Alvin, we are there now.

Must... resist... must... fight it... must not post...

You mean like this:

C'mon, it's Friday! 🙂

At the company that I used to work for, this one lady *demanded* more and more columns in this one report until we had to shrink the font size down...

I see a programmer as someone who is highly specialised their craft, much more so than a developer. A developer, on the other hand, also tackles higher level tasks -...

Gail Shaw posted a blog entry with several tests on performance for these types of "catch all" queries.

Catch-all queries[/url]

(Sorry WayneS, I missed your post.)

blandry, you just won 100 Internets!

Thanks Gianluca. I was also thinking that the ROLLBACK TRANSACTION should occur first.

Typo:

should be

Whereas, if there was a single...

Gianluca Sartori (5/19/2010)

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It would be nice, but consider that this site can sell ads based on the traffic, that would drop dramatically if users could avoid loading the forum page...

That would definitely be a bonus since I often check my mail...