I've heard that Hibernate in Java has more features than NHibernate in .NET. But regardless, I hate NHibernate. I think it is "OK" for very small, light weight,...

Wow, it seems like everyone agrees that software development is like building a house. I'll go ahead and stick my nose out and be the first to say that...

Sorry about that. I meant RAID 1.

Thanks for the suggestions. I guess the short answer is, "No. SQL Server cannot throttle a backup."

I have asked our hosting...

I'm a big fan of VM for testing and development purposes. I have not yet used a VM in a production environment. The latest physical machine I've put...

I agree with that and in an even broader sense it can simply be covered with "too much information" as you said. I once had complaints about a...

I understand the problems you had with the support staff and not getting a callback.  I experienced a similar situation with an XBox Live support person.  He said, "We are...

Did you see the episode of "Myth Busters" where they were able to bypass several "home" biometric security devices?  I say "home" because surely the systems they were using didn't...

Believe it or not, Chris, all database engines are "that dumb".  I first encountered this phenomenon over 5 years ago and thought the same thing, "Is SQL Server really that...

Yes, we are using it.  It is pretty good.  Of course as a developer whos applications are being monitored by it I'm a little biased.  It is pretty feature rich...

Try using index hints in the stored procedure to force the stored procedure to always use those indexes regardless of whether the statistics are up to date.

By the way, your...

One basic database design principle is to make things as "granular" as possible. Following this design pattern would mean that you would go with the separate bit columns for...