I agree, there is no "one-size-fits-all" solution in the world of Enterprise Systems. I have this long experience where I have seen the pendulum swing back and forth from...

Congratulations Tracy. Being elected is a great honor and you deserved it.

Jerry Sommerville, Data Architect

Finalist, 2009 Excetional DBA of the Year

Thanks Steve -

There were over 1500 user sessions running at that time txtPost_CommentEmoticon(':w00t:'); so it might take a while. I have already confirmed there were no backups running....

Here are the facts:

1. What operating system you running - we ar running Windows 2003 Enterprise

2. raid configuration - We are on a Clarion cx400 with 48 spindles configured Raid...

Barry left out one suggestion I would make. try and find a mentor! If there are other DBA's in your company, go to one that you feel comfortable...

Jess - This would be much more helpful with the schema for the Admin database attached. Otherwise, we have to back into your schema design. Not much time...

Mohit -

Thanks for the suggestion. I am running a trace for 1 hour - blocking only. I am running the trace from a seperate server, storing the...

Steve -

I agree that Microsoft should adopt a release cycle of ~24-48 months. This encourages innovation as well as adoption. We have a large number of SQL Server...

One million members... WOW! Congratulations and keep up the good work. Passing on the knowledge is a rare thing and I am very glad to see sites like...

When the bankers in our own country stop lending to each other, things could go bad for everyone trying to make payroll or fund the inventory to keep the doors...

There are a lot of really good artices on SQLServerCentral.com that can point you in the right direction. One of the ones that I think might be a good...

Ray -

Thought the HTML Jobs script a great addition to my collection, but the script posted does not seem to have valid carriage return/line feeds. I tried pasting...

For all of my databases, I do two things: 1 - backup the transaction log and then move it to another server. 2- Truncate the log to conserve...

Here! Here!. I think Steve has hit the nail firmly on the head. I work in a shop where there are two people for each key position. ...

This particular artice caught my eye because I am looking for a good reference that covers the language, but is not the unabridged tome that you sometimes come across when...