Thank you for this post and for sharing the memorial fund created for her kids. 
https://www.gofundme.com/naomi-williams-memorial-fund/donate

I have a SQL 2014 Express instance that a developer installed. Currently, we do not "officially" support SQL 2014. I want to move the 2014 database to a 2012 consolidated...

Excellent series on indexing! Thank you!

Will do...Thanks Gail!

I will be loading several thousand records. If I temporarily change my recovery model from FULL to BULK LOGGED, will I lose the ability to recover to a point...

I restored a copy of Prod (3 TB) on my Dev server, ran a purge routine to remove patient data and now trying to shrink. My initial pass at running...

Well done Steve... Thank you

What was the outcome? Thanks!

I am attempting the same thing. Here's my scenario:

SQL 2005, 32bit, Win2k3, 1.5 TB DB

In my Test environment, using a copy of my 1.5 TB production database, I am running...

I'm having the same issue and that is -

Detailed results:

Feature: ...

Sounds like FUN!

Seems to me if you only have one instance of EE on your virtual host, you would only need to license the virtual procs assigned to that SQL instance.

The argument I hear is "....unless the customer wants to pay for dedicated disk, it will be shared..." Another point my SAN Admin says is with 16GB of cache, performance...

Thank you!...excellent information

Thought my post tied into this discussion...but okay!