The US is falling behind in the world because we aren't using enough technology in the classroom. Our teachers see cellphones as toys rather than tools like in other...

This is great. Going back to using the concept of a stack and heap. This is way faster than using a cursor to pivot data. Now if...

Disable the Windows Firewall/ICS service and stop it.

adam cassel (5/30/2008)

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@ Mr. Perry

32bit/x32 OS can not address more than 4GIG of RAM. Therefore, you can not assign 8gig of ram to a 32 bit guest VM. For additional...

This just sounds like a natural progression. They already have parallel execution figured out in integration services. Now they just need a good disk partitioning algorithm. Didn't...

This is a great question, but the answer would be no rows returned because they would still be all NULL since you did not insert or update any rows before...

I guess Microsoft just figures that those of us who have 200 databases on a server and run the enterprise edition will actually have a need for the resource governor....

You need to add the users to msdtsserver in DCOM in componenet services. They need rights to connect and launch remotely. Also, you need to make sure port...

This is just showing who is a manager and who is a leader, not a new idea at all, just a new way to visualize everything. Leaders always find...

This is unbelievable! There is no way to tell which is because of a password being wrong since there is no state information given. Even your reference for...

That has nothing to do with what appears to be a new question:

[font="Courier New"]If you are moving system databases (master, msdb, model, tempdb), you would change the location of master...

Still wrong. That's the procedure for moving between servers. This is the procedure for moving the location:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms345408.aspx

Also, setting trace flag 3608 at startup and running in...

Once you move into the Windows Datacenter Edition world the hardware is highly available even with only one server.

http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/x/solutions/os/windows/datacenter.html

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/datacenter/dcprogram.mspx

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/windowsserver/bb429508.aspx

and you have support levels from...

Microsoft does not recommend clustering VMs, but does support it and it does work very well in actual practice since the environment remains available when patching and doing other maintenance...

You can scale out with a cluster, but you need to think about the bigger picture. Picture a four node cluster with all the nodes active, each one with...