Where ever you have a top down or bottom up approach, you have compromise where the 2 meet. It really is 2 different problems and both jobs need to be...

I always check available disk space. Several times I have had temp db go wild, or someone/something steal it away. Rapid decrease merits further investigation.

Performance metrics.

Failed jobs.

Open transactions

Check Database Statuses...

It is a matter of the right tool.

If all you do is general business programming VB.Net will be sufficient and maybe your best choice.

If you need to access native...

I wonder if you wrapped all your SqlBulkCopys in a transaction if that would help.

Also, have you profiled your code to make sure that it is the database slowing you...

What I am hearing in Steve's editorials and in the posts, is that we are still trying to find a way of dealing with the pain in software development. Many...

SSC Eights! I was not upset. I should have know than to get into a discussion about language. 😉 I too have grumbled about case-sensitive and...

I really should have not made that observation of the post so far. I should have known that that would catch ire. My apologies.

I would like to say that in...

Having coded before Bill Gates and in 40+ languages like a previous poster, I prefer case-sensitivity.

I find that problems such as typo’s that occur in case-insensitive languages, harder to track...

I have to feel that the article is short sighted and reactionary.

I used to shy away from XML for the same reasons the author stated, however over the years I...

It feels to me that with 2005, Microsoft is moving SQL Server into the application server space. In some instances, perhaps a low transaction volume environment, it make sense that...