Here's a write up I did on testing labs http://www.dbaonthego.com/2013/12/testing-labs.html

Jeremiah wrote a good post on sample databases here.[/url]

Here's another link to a list of training options. Here.

What are you looking...

I have an Android as well. I use splashtop and LogMeIn...

preference to logmein for computer to computer and splashtop for phones/tablets... but that's preference only. both work. logmein works great...

I'd love to see the DBA from their shop chime in. ^.^

I've worked without RDP. I can tell you there are real down sides. Downtimes are longer, less people...

+10 for that post.

the question has been answered that your DBA can work without RDP.

What's been addressed is that you now have twice as much work to do since they cannot.

Do...

just a quick note: Powershell and other batches from windows task is the way I've managed it in the past. Developer edition is not supposed to be used in production....

Maybe not what you're looking for, but I've used both splashtop and logmein to remote from my phone to my laptop, I'd use that to turn on my VPN, connect...

how about some middle ground? give them view / user permissions and not admin. If they find a problem, they have you fix it. Almost all work can be done...

That's my understanding of it. A page split is when a record cannot fit on the page it's designated for. Not all page allocations come from splits. Page splits are...

Forgive my stab at this, but page splits happen when data cannot fit in the page it's aiming for and a new page has to be allocated if I remember...

Let me know how it goes ^.^

On that thread I linked there was a post from Microsoft stating;

"We have confirmed that this is by design. If you have installed just the SSMS Basic Tools (such as...

you can also use something like Ola.Hallengren's script and set a max time to run. let it run after production hours and have it finish before the day starts. This...

Glen Berry has a good set of scripts that give you this information and other things as well. It would be a good one to look into. the scripts are...

That being said, for normal maintenance you might want to look into this site.[/url]