I presented a webcast on Wednesday on SQL Server Consolidation.  As with many of my sessions (both physical and virtual), I like to ask several questions.  This is NOT scientific, but it is anecdotal. Poll Question #1:  Do you have SQL Server 2000 STILL running in production in your organization today?  YES = 70%, NO = 27%, ...

Last month, I spoke at a SQL Server Firestarter event in Charlotte.  With just about every session that I speak at or webcast that I do since 2006, I always ask for a show of hands on two questions.  The first is ''How many people here are running SQL Server 2000 in production?'', and the follow-up question that I ask is ''How many ...

Whenever I do a webcast or presentation, I always ask the audience to indicate where their organization is in relation to running SQL Server 2000 or running SQL 2005.  Recently, in an audience of about 40 people, more than half of the audience still had more than 50% of their production servers running SQL Server 2000.  One of the ...