Great, thanks!

Patrick

Brad,

I appreciate your work! I do have a question though.

With respect to monitoring SAN activity via an OS source (perfmon/sysmon), a while back I was discouraged from relying on anything...

Well, I found the link below very helpful for evaluating the size increase of a database.  It will work if you are backing up to a backup set. 

He also mentions...

Wow, this is a hot post! 

I'm open to the opportunities the CLR offers, but it does place more responsibility on the lowly DBA (and job security for those who...

Interesting.  Thanks for your comments, especially on the "Through Group Membership" issue.

Good article!  Really liked the fact that it clearly indicated problems and solutions (to include pros and cons).  Thank you!

Good review of new features.

Very true.  And as much as I like SQL, I would consider my life incomplete if that was the pinnacle of my existance.

Thanks for the information.  I look forward to 2005 the more I read.

Regarding 64Bit Itanium, it outperformed our existing heavily burdened 32 bit OLTP with 4 times as many users and transactions while utilizing only half of the 64Bit servers resources (4...

Very good and thanks for opening up about lessons learned! 

I agree with the MOM recommendation.  I had it at my last job.  Each morning, I would come in, log into MOM and view the status of 22 servers through...

Interesting article and the concept of working with developers.  Is that just a theoretical idea?  

Seriously, I would like to spend more time with...

Regarding the often underemphasized I/O benefit that comes with using separate files, the following comes from BOL "Using Files and Filegroups"  ---> "Recommendations":

Place different tables used in the same join queries in...

Q823492 addressed and fixed this problem.

Problem solved.