I had a external 5MB drive on my Apple /// in 1982, priced at $3,500. External 1TB drive today is $100. The math is fun: you'd need 200,000...

Situation: 60GB production database for medium-sized company, 700+ web users during the day, some usage 7*24.

We've never thought about our system in terms of TPS... we just focus on...

The way I heard it, is kids who in high school get really excited by technology, and join the robotics club or "mouse squad" or electronics club or whatever, get...

The log values only go to seconds, no mS

Following up on my post, in case the details are interesting to anyone:

- Googling says that Windows is supposed to change from 1:59:59.999 to 1:00:00 on the DST switch; it...

I had strange problems on Sunday... here's what I posted in the Backups forum. (This is with SQL 2005)

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One of our systems backs up at 2am. 8 databases,...

Since we seem to have a consensus, let me try to take this a different direction (sorry Steve)

All of you who are using online tools instead of printed reports, which...

Our CFO and financial analysts want all the raw data (flattened into 2-dimensional tables) to import into Excel and pivot to their heart's content. They don't know what they're looking...

We always say "disk is cheap". But we know that backup time and space, network bandwidth, data recovery time in a crisis, etc. are not cheap.

We intend to keep...