Hmm,

I'm not an expert, but I was wondering if you have poison message handling enabled on your queues? My first thought was that you may have had...

I have vendor supplied applications that just started allowing 2008 R2, and they have issues with us installing CUs from a support perspective.

+1 vote from me.

+1

Thanks! I'm going to see if we can add a third place where we can keep a set of backups as you suggested.

They post all the updates on http://blogs.msdn.com/b/sqlreleaseservices

but its the build number you need to look at. The blog has a link to the MS KB article on the...

I'm not sure if this will help you, but there is a feature comparison guide between the different editions:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc645993%28v=SQL.110%29.aspx

I think this just because it's a CTP as its specifically noted in the release notes that it needs to be installed on an OS without any other version of...

David Walker-278941 (11/23/2010)

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"This does not mean that the index 'NonClust_Contact_Name' was not useful. It's still much better than the Clustered scan."

*WHAT* is still much better than the clustered scan? ...

A good article to read on CDC is the whitepaper that was published a couple of years ago when the feature was released with 2008. IIRC, CDC does create a...

Coffee was a prerequisite in order for me to get this right.

The vast majority if you mean excluded as (total records - selected records).

Roughly 10 million records are excluded as only about 7000 meet the criteria.

Hmm,

Interesting (if somewhat puzzling results). If you look on MSDN it says explicitly not to use the ISNULL() function to find NULLs in a query, and to...

Thanks for the response! I've been trading emails with the vendor and his idea is to change a column he's filtering on to a different table as his testing is...

Just some quick thoughts as I've worked as a systems analyst in healthcare maintaining and installing new applications:

* I'll echo G-Squared here: know what your vendors require and what is...

Learned something today about the differences between Format and Init. Does the difference between the two gain you an advantage when you are backing up to tape (it's been years...