One of the best parts of Twitter, and using #sqlhelp is that it forces you to think about your problem and include only the base of the problem as you...

Sure here it is.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/techonomy/2014/02/07/what-satya-nadella-told-me-before-he-got-the-job/

I believe Microsoft's new CEO is solidifying the cloud only stance with this quote from a recent interview.

While...

jay-h (2/7/2014)

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I'm of the very strong opinion that these novelty questions are basically ego stroking on the part of interviewers. There is absolutely NO scientific or statistical reason to expect...

I believe the best answer to this is the classic

One bite at a...

Great example of community policing!!!

With that in mind, here's my entry for the Windowing book!!

This sample shows how, given tables with customer, products, and orders, you can extract two groupings...

Having a fairly decent grasp on how cloud services work, I struggled with a company I worked for in their approach to their cloud service. They did have a...

You can combine any manner of things into one maintenance plan, that likely isn't your problem.

Are you running Enterprise Edition?

Are you talking about the Windows Power Plan settings? If so check these out.

http://sqlserverperformance.wordpress.com/2010/09/28/windows-power-plans-and-cpu-performance

http://www.brentozar.com/archive/2010/10/sql-server-on-powersaving-cpus-not-so-fast[/url]

http://greg.blogs.sqlsentry.net/2011/01/ensuring-maximum-cpu-performance-via.html

My suggestion is for a once a day sync, not continuous.

Using my suggestion you would have a fresh copy of production every morning. Anything you did in DEV/QA yesterday...

On a couple of our QA servers, we have daily jobs that will detach the database, copy a drive via SAN specific commands, then reattach the newly copied database. ...

I too will tell you that keeping them in sync is going to be a hard task.

Do you have SAN drives on these VMs? If so, you...