That's a WHOLE lot of questions. The reason sites like Amazon are never down is because the site/application is very widely distributed. By this I mean the web front end...

You're very welcome! If you ever need any help myself and pretty much every professor from SQLU is on Twitter (including Steve!)

DucSTA (8/24/2010)

I guess i'm looking for a design document which has the following points

1. hardware spec

2. disk partitions/ RAID 1+0, RAID 5 configuration

3. Database file placement

4. Security

5. backup and recovery...

Good question, got it wrong. Didn't know about default length being set to 1 if not declared. Nice job!

Congrats Josef and its been great having you onboard the SQL University project this past year. You've definitely proven you're worthy of the title Exceptional DBA!

Nice, looks like that thread will occupy much time in my ReadItLater list

Pretty much any of the aforementioned threads. Forum drama, while entertaining at times, can get quite nasty.

Do I even want to KNOW what's contained in that thread or am I better off staying ignorant? 😉

As the old adage goes, "Give a man a fish and he'll eat for a day, teach him how to fish and he'll eat for a lifetime". So it goes...

WE ARE NOT WORTHY! WE ARE NOT WORTHY!

Haha in all seriousness it's a HUGE honor and...

lol yeah SSMS could use a few tweaks here and there. You may want to suggest that particular feature be put in by going to http://connect.microsoft.com They appreciate...

Check out this article that tells you how to clear it http://stevenharman.net/blog/archive/2006/10/25/SQL_Server_2005_Management_Studio__Clear_Recent_Servers_List.aspx

Woot! Thanks for the shout-out Steve! Big thanks to Stanley though,...

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