I would like to know the date when the sql server installed on the system.  I did try to look in %programfiles%\Microsoft SQL Server\100\Setup Bootstrap\Log\ directory but there are so many files and folder not sure from where I can get the required information.
I am interested in determining the ages of all 70+ my servers. I would like to create a growth graph showing when servers and databases were added to the environment either/both monthly or annually. I executed the following query using the SSMS multi-query feature with only partial success.  SELECT [name], create_date FROM sys.databases   It's partial success because the master and model databases return with a date of 'April 8, 2003' when I know that I created some of these servers during the past couple years.  I refresh databases from one server to another several times a week, which appears to be causing issues with the database create date.   Is there a simple method to determine the actual create date for both servers and databases?
Why is isNaN(null) == false in JS? This code in JS gives me a popup saying "i think null is a number", which I find slightly disturbing. What am I missing?    if (isNaN(null)) {   alert("null is not a number"); } else {   alert("i think null is a number"); }     I'm using Firefox 3. Is that a browser bug?  Other tests:    console.log(null == NaN);   // false console.log(isNaN("text")); // true console.log(NaN == "text"); // false     So, the problem seems not to be an exact comparison with NaN?  Edit: Now the question has been answered, I have cleaned up my post to have a better version for the archive. However, this renders some comments and even some answers a little incomprehensible. Don't blame their authors. Among the things I changed was:   Removed a note saying that I had screwed up the headline in the first place by reverting its meaning Earlier answers showed that I didn't state clearly enough why I thought the behaviour was weird, so I added the examples that check a string and do a manual comparison. ViewPager as a circular queue / wrapping Alternative version of the Final Value theorem for Laplace Transform How do I retrieve an HTML element's actual width and height? Suppose that I have a &lt;div&gt; that I wish to center in the browser's display (viewport). To do so, I need to calculate the width and height of the &lt;div&gt; element.   What should I use? Please include information on browser compatibility. My server had been infected and the attacker spread a bunch of .5randomletters folders around my file system, with malicious code inside of them. I want to search for all the folders that begin with a dot, review them and then remove them.  How can I do that? Playing a remote movie on the remote computer In naive set theory, I believe ∅ = {∅} = {{∅}} is correct, but just wanted to make sure that I understood this correctly.   ∅ is an empty set, so having an empty set as an element of a set that contains nothing else is pretty much the same thing as e.g. marking the number 2 as 2.000000, right? Doesn't the symbol ∅ intrinsically imply that this is an empty set which contains it self? Product of two cyclic groups is cyclic iff their orders are co-prime Say you have two groups $G = \langle g \rangle$ with order $n$ and $H = \langle h \rangle$ with order $m$. Then the product $G \times H$ is a cyclic group if and only if $\gcd(n,m)=1$.  I can't seem to figure out how to start proving this. I have tried with some examples, where I pick $(g,h)$ as a candidate generator of $G \times H$. I see that what we want is for the cycles of $g$ and $h$, as we take powers of $(g,h)$, to interleave such that we do not get $(1,1)$ until the $(mn)$-th power. However, I am having a hard time formalizing this and relating it to the greatest common divisor.  Any hints are much appreciated! In classical logic, why is $(p\Rightarrow q)$ True if $p$ is False and $q$ is True? MatrixPlot with Tooltips Workaround for Android 4.4 not being able to write to SD cards? Match the size of multiple background images In  tutorial in the first couple of minutes it is explained how to set the dimensions of a cube and match the background images to this mesh. I have tried to get it right but till now I did not succeed. This is what the creator of the tutorial says in the comments:      I'm keeping only one mesh and just changing the x and y values of my   background images you can see me add at 3:00. We want all the   background images to match that one mesh.   Here are my images:     I think front and back images match to the mesh. But for the right, left and top view I only get one dimension matching. I don't see how you can match both dimensions matching without changing the mesh On every loading of a lib, I get the error:     no version information available   This lib has been compiled on another PC (ubuntu 10.04) than the one running it (mandriva 2010.2).  $ ldd /usr/local/gnu-eabi-4.5.2/i686-pc-linux-gnu/arm-eabi/lib/libbfd-2.21.so /usr/local/gnu-eabi-4.5.2/i686-pc-linux-gnu/arm-eabi/lib/libbfd-2.21.so: /lib/libz.so.1: no version information available (required by /usr/local/gnu-eabi-4.5.2/i686-pc-linux-gnu/arm-eabi/lib/libbfd-2.21.so)  linux-gate.so.1 =&gt;  (0xffffe000)  libz.so.1 =&gt; /lib/libz.so.1 (0xb77a7000)  libc.so.6 =&gt; /lib/i686/libc.so.6 (0xb7655000)  /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xb787a000)   Edit: the workaround didn't work. I'm hoping someone can help! I recently downloaded a torrent directly onto an external hard drive, (using a 2009 MacBook Pro and 1TB Seagate Expansion portable Drive) somehow during the download the drive was accidentally ejected, since this incident when I plug the drive back in it’s having problems reading.  The drive works fine for about 10 minutes, I can read/copy/paste and access files but then starts to wreak havoc; apps hangs, it hangs the Finder, etc.  I’ve tried repairing it in Disk Utility, which reads and repairs this disk but problems inevitably continue as described above.  I’ve deleted the Torrent file also. All my files on this external drive so re-formatting is not an option until I can retrieve them. What is the difference between "I am done" and "I am through"? Why is Android refusing to resolve DNS records pointing to internal IP addresses? Read Value from URL in PHP Unable to install Ubuntu on Lenovo Y500 I am totally unable to install any flavor of Linux on my lenovo Y500. TL;DR:  with EFI on -&gt; cannot even access installer with legacy - &gt; installer runs fine, but installed OS never boots  Long Version: It is going to be hard to recap what I did, because I tried so many things, but here is the gist of it: EFI mode (secure boot disabled): Trial #1  ubuntu 12.10 x64 &amp; Mint 14 x64 boot from usb see screen with choices pick &quot;try ubuntu&quot; get black screen  Trial #2  ubuntu 12.10 x64 &amp; Mint 14 x64 boot from usb see screen with choices press &quot;e&quot; to enter edit mode remove &quot;quiet splash&quot; replace with &quot;nomodeset&quot; end up on the command line with an error message from x server: &quot;no screen found&quot; try fiddling around with xorg.conf to no avail  Trial #3  Arch Linux Live USB EFI mode no boot  Trial #4  ubuntu 12.10 x64 &amp; Mint 14 x64 set &quot;e&quot; to enter edit mode in menu add acpi=off end up with &quot;(initramfs) unable to find a medium&quot; message  Trial #5  same as above set SATA mode to legacy (it was AHCI) error loop that says something along the lines of &quot;ata1.00: hard resetting link&quot;  Legacy Mode Trial #1  ubuntu 12.10 x64 &amp; Mint 14 x64 USB boot Everything seems to work Proceed to normal install (picks SSD drive by default) Everything seems to work reboot blank screen reboot with &quot;shift&quot; pressed see message &quot;grub loading.&quot; and nothing As per advised on Ubuntu's community EFI page, run boot-repair same results run boot-repair again same results  Trial #2  ubuntu 12.10 x64 &amp; Mint 14 x64 same as above, but pick 1T HDD as target install same results  Trial #3  create a /boot partition on the SSD install on SSD same results (&quot;grub loading.&quot;) run boot repair twice same results  Trial #4  create a GPT filesystem on HDD create a /boot partition on the HDD install on HDD same results as above  Trial #5  install ubuntu on HDD install boot on all drives (HDD &amp; SSD) same results  Trials #6  install Arch on SSD no boot loader found  Notes:  Every step has been tried with multiple USBs. All isos' MD5Sums have been verified LiveUSBs have been created both through ubuntu's embedded app and unetbootin (save for Arch's live USB which was created by DDing the iso as per advised in the Arch wiki) I have wiped out windows in my first trials, and I don't care, I am never going to use it. I don't want to dual-boot. I just want Ubuntu or Mint or Arch as far as I can remember (it gets hard after 50+ trials), I tried every option with sata mode IDE or normal. Not sure though.  I've also tried numerous other things that I can't recall right now. All in all I've been giving this 3 to 5 hours a day for a week and a half to absolutely no avail. I am extremely disappointed as this is my first Lenovo and word is Lenovo is Linux-friendly...I have never spent more than an hour installing linux on any machine. What's even more frustrating is that it seems to be working for , and I can't find any hint telling me how they managed. I wrote to one guy who posted a serie of youtube videos about how to get everything working perfectly on the Y500, and he told me he just installed mint without any problems. Might be I am a particular case because I have the SLI version of the Y500. If anyone has pointers, incomplete solutions, ideas, black magic, I'll be forever in debt. Thank you P.S: This question, afaik, is not a duplicate of an existing question. I've scoured all questions containing &quot;lenovo&quot; and &quot;install&quot;, and none applies to me. How do I transfer iPhone contacts to an Android phone? What is the Coandă effect? How is it defined, and what causes it? Can anybody explain to me the  well? I am finding that many definitions and explanations conflict.  I am particularly confused about the following points regarding the Coandă effect:   whether the Coandă effect is the same as normal boundary layer attachment to a surface whether the Coandă effect is only defined for convex surfaces over which a jet (of the same state as the surrounding fluid) is tangentially blown what causes the Coandă effect: the jet entraining the ambient fluid or a balance of pressure and centrifugal forces, or something else?