I've seen varying levels of change management during my 28 year career, and most of the time it felt like a productivity drain. However, the company I've been with for...

I also vote for SP's on an annual basis. We want to know there's been some solid testing behind these releases.

Thanks for the information. I didn't realize hardware was a factor in estimating query costs. That's kind of ironic, because the production server is 64-bit Windows 2003, SQL Server 2005,...

I understand that the estimated query costs have little relation to reality. However, in our production environment, the query governor is set to 5,000 during prime time hours (7am -...

I'm also one of the people who scans the forum section of the newsletter once a week. Maybe once a week you could list the forum titles and the number...