Erika and I talk about this pretty regularly. I really believe that the only purpose of working is to get enough money so that you don't have to work...

IceDread (8/28/2011)

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You were not listening. You can not go into a store and purchase a harddrive and install it yourself soon because of apples firmware, you must purchase it from...

Kind of ironic that you'd say this in a Microsoft SQL Server forum, eh?

If you're really serious about openness,...

Steve - welcome to the club!

JLangdon - I totally understand where you're coming from. From the outside, it would seem like using Apple gear would make your life tougher,...

I want less knobs in the GUI, and more knobs that are enabled via T-SQL.

When I got started, I'd check all kinds of boxes in the GUI trying to make...

Jonas Bergström (6/8/2011)

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Thank you Brent. I actually read your blog post about rockstars yesterday and feel a bit like, I don't now, not really a rock star, but at least...

You might want to refine your question to include whether you're referring to SQL Server's native compression, third party backup compression, or both. The answer changes if you're talking...

Glad I could help - and again, great series! The community really needed this step-by-step level of training, and I love seeing 'em go live.

Ha! Had to reply since my name got thrown in here, heh.

I'm usually all for including the CUs with one exception - I try to keep the production, QA,...

Nice article! Just one tweak:

"If one page in an extent is owned by TableA or IndexB, all eight pages will be owned by that same object. An exception...

Hahaha, yeah, Alaska & the West Coast are probably coming soon. Ideally, I'd like to do a spring/summer one out of Seattle to Alaska, and a fall/winter one in the...

DAC Packs aren't a solution, though, because they only support a subset of schema objects. For example, you can't include certain datatypes or stored procedures. Thanks for the...

As far as 3rd party backup tools there are so many available but I have worked only with SQLLItespeed and Hyperbac so I can talk about this. Advantage with...

If you run sp_updatestats without specifying a sampling ratio, it won't do a full scan of the tables to calculate the statistics. It'll use your default sampling ratio, which...