Yes, CU8 seems to be very stable, CU9 has left many with nasty msdb errors, fixable, but not something you want when patching.

I feel your pain Sir, but have you compared your salary to what Brent has shared on google docs?

If you feel underappreciated, there are many other jobs and contracts out...

Great Topic, wrote on this last year (and should update it too): http://www.sqlservercentral.com/blogs/hugo/archive/2009/07/06/object-grouping-best-practices-using-schemas-for-logical-separation.aspx

Love Oracle, and whenever I hear the argument that MSSQL is cheaper because it is...

Glad to see from above the support for Internal Controls, certainly makes not only the DBAs life easier, but also, more importantly, the strength of an organisation's systems' integrity.

I went...

Hello, with respect to MOSS, I think you already know the best way to optimise it already - just split off your indexes onto another physical disk/spindle etc. The...

I blogged about this, and thoroughly recommend it to anyone who is stuck in production on SQL 2005 (vardecimal option for financial databases), or who has SQL 2008:

G'day,

After having studied Andrew J. Kelly's [rebuild_indexes_by_db] from sql mag and from experience, I figure you should put the online rebuild within a try/catch as well as

SET DEADLOCK_PRIORITY...

Hello, just wanted to add my two cents, now that the Canadian is worth more and has been for longer than most have expected 🙂

Please don't use nolock on tables...