I agree, why allow two values to mean the same thing? I handle this by allowing optional fields such as AddressLine2 to be NULL and then implement a constraint to...

Achieved my goal for 2009: MCTS for SQL Server 2005!

Goals for 2010: understand more about performance tuning (have ebook from Grant Fritchey that looks promising as a starting...

I also do not have a degree. Life dictated that I start working immediately out of high school. I ended up doing data entry, then moved on to...

I work in a very small office where people are very close in proximity. Most of us eat at our desks and some make awful noises while doing it!...

Thanks for the advice. I will continue monitoring and do additional troubleshooting if it starts causing issues in the database.

I think I just figured out what is happening. There is a LiveState backup happening at the time of the log entries that backs up the entire drive where...