On the "why use Local group instead of Global groups" issue:

I once attended a local Microsoft seminar on SQL something or other, and the question came up. It wasn't...

I've done a fair amount of work with Database Maintenance Plans, and I've never seen anything that implies they support partial database backups (i.e., file group backups). You will...

Maybe a bit late, but I'd like to toss in two cents. (Arguing about naming conventions is safer and more fun than arguing religion or politics.)

First off, I inherited...

Touching on subject #1 again, here's an idea I've heard once or twice--never done it myself, though I'd like to try it some day.

To recap, the base idea is:

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I actually recall this. The original designers of the system learned about this the usual (painful) way, meaning all our DTS packages have had the "maxmimum tasks executed in...

The database may well be auto-growing, but that wouldn't take more than a few minutes (if that), and shouldn't be replicable. I've hit the hanging problem six times over...

Yes, there is definitely more data returned by the initial select statement than usual. It's not the most ever, but definitaly in the top 5%. (The query itself...

What I'd like to know is, where do you find out about these secret registry keys? I've always wanted to be able to bump the number of error logs...

Another two cents on the pile...

We use version control (VSS) to manage our stored procedures, as at least a dozen programmers might be working on them at any given time....

Good article. (Was that an echo?) It is always worth reading up on how other people do, let's call it "non-standardized" things, such as naming and coding conventions....

Langston picked out a point I avoided. WPM on typewriters was key way back when, because a typo was really hard to fix. Even when that neat new...

Another typist weighing in here. I learned touch-typing when my mother got my sister and I to attend a summer class on typing--primarily so we could survive all those...

Good article (I knew those old DTS versions were piling up there, but 1.2G?!? Yow!).

Brian mentioned having problems with 100M .DTS COM files bloating up with multiple...