One model, which I imagine will be familiar to Redgate, is the SQLSaturday / Sharepoint Saturday co-branded events hosted in Cambridge. Two websites, two mailing lists, two CFPs, one agenda,...

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Given that the title of this sub-forum is "The Future of Community", I think discussion of the reasons for the demise of PASS - which is the past, not the...

Jeff,

It occurs to me that the publication of this article violates the License terms of SQL Server, in particular the "DeWitt clause":

"BENCHMARK TESTING. You must obtain Microsoft's prior written approval...

Fine, noted.

OK, great. I've been away watching cricket since your post, but back in the "SQL Saddle" now.

Will put something together this week.

Well, the pinned post said the topic would be assigned to me, which never happened.

Do you have a particular problem with the exec package task I can help with? If...

I can take this topic.

It is all a little arbitrary; log shipping was particularly silly since you could either write the scripts yourself or just copy them from an EE installation. Compression was also...

Decided to wait for Denali version of MCM - don't think I have enough time to go through all the material before the exams expire. Already have the MCITP exams,...

What action did you take immediately before getting the message?

Not sure that SQLCLR helps here, there's always ILDASM to assist the exceptionally curious.

Even if you obfuscate your .NET code, or even put the real secret stuff in an...

IMV there isn't a great deal of difference between the 2005 and 2008 products*, so when I was in your situation I went for the 2008 certs, even though most...

No version of SQL Server comes with these templates; these come with Visual Studio, I think you would need Professional Edition or above.

You don't really need the templates to develop...

Sorry, version confusion there. "Export Column" is...

The data in the column is in the format...