Depends on the features you are needing but there are some open source solutions as well as some less expensive commercial solutions out there. It just depends on what...

Thanks. That is what I thought but I wanted to be sure before I went to ask my boss for more memory. 😉

I got the information from my sales guy at Embarcadero after a quarterly meeting happened.  If you look at DB Artisan you will notice that the different views in the...

The latest release does indeed handle 2005. There were some questions about some late breaking changes to Vista and Longhorn which delayed things evidently.

Performance Center was an option we...

Well, maybe not a government agency but something that could be independently funded in some way might work like the Carnegie Mellon concept. Although, many universities have not impressed...

Good idea, too bad it will take a major "meltdown" of the internet before the legal powers actually follow through on such a concept. Still, we can dream right?

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I believe the Dell 29xx series will work for that and you can get multiple RAID channels with it as well. You may wish to look at some opteron...

Among the largest issues in security is, and will be (for the foreseeable future anyway), the issue of responsibility for a bug in the software allowing a security breach....

I run both here... Trust me, stay with SQL Server...

Out of the tools you mentioned, RedGate's was the only one to start up immediately for me and that was on a cluster and stand-alone servers. The 2k5 support...

Maybe we should all just be happy that he didn't try to write the statement using cursors???

Just to be sure, you have made sure that the link is valid on the "onsite" server correct?

Congratulations guys!

I have recently started working with Red Gate and I like the "crew" over there (as well as their products) so I am glad to see this happen. ...

That should work just fine. Doing the reverse tends to not work at all even though the file headers are supposed to be compatible but from 2000 to 2005...

If you do the "detach-reattach" method, make sure to rebuild the statistics as otherwise the database will still use the 2000 version of the execution plans and etc... Ran...