Indeed. Even though SQL Server has Sybase roots, Sybase still allows one to select a page size like Oracle and DB2 (which someone mentioned above). In my previous...

I agree with Colby. A tiered/piecemeal pricing model like Steve suggested would be great. On paper SQL seems like a bargain compared to it's rivals b/c of the...

Great script, but unfortunately enabling ole automation procedures is a security risk for us so we can never run this type of disk drive script. Our drive space script...

Can the .vbs script query/display the drive letter instead of the drive name? Currently it's only displaying the drive name (optional in windows) which for most of our drives...

Here's the link to the MS site for all builds after SQL 2008 SP1. Don't know why it deserves a separate KB number from the 956909 KB build list,...

Yes, the code works on SQL2005 and SQL2008 best I can tell. We're all SQL2005 x64 for the most part with a few SQL2008 installations sprinkled in but so...

Rudy,

Great article. It talked more about your monitoring framework which I feel is the hardest part for a DBA to decide on and setup. I too perform automated...

I use LiteSpeed and my only complaint (other than price) is that the CPU overhead is significant.  Some of my servers have ~36 db's each so I have to run...