Okay, I found the word.  I had the # of syllables wrong, though.

What Qwest was doing was called "slamming".  You can find a detailed entry for it at Wikipedia.

No.  There was actually a term for it that was uniquely different from fraud and scam.  It was like 4 syllables long and it had never been applied to anyone...

When we installed SQL 2005, we were unable to split the .mdf and .ldf files.  We could change the base location of the DBs, but couldn't split up the files. ...

Okay, now that's just weird.  I had never noticed this behavior from SQL Server 2005, but you are absolutely correct.  When I only specific one column in the SELECT (out of...

I haven't tried this, but you might investigate setting up a DDL trigger on the certification events.  Or check the other DDL Events and Event Groups to see if something...

I can see your point, but I still quibble with the word "scam".  The way I understand a scam to be is that you pay money, get nothing in return...

But the last time I checked, you couldn't really log into the actual server (OS) with the SA account, even though the SA account has those privledges.  You have to...

There are hundreds of domain registry companies in existance, most of them legit.  They compete for business, sending out emails and snailmail about their services.  The name and address information...

Unfortunately, I see events like this all the time.  They're called Vendor Shows.  It doesn't matter what industry you're in (software, hardware, rental, industrial, etc.), everyone holds a yearly event...

The problem with applying things through GPOs is that while many DBAs may have local Windows Admin permissions, rarely --if ever-- does a DBA have Domain Admin permissions or Admin...

To have jobs run across multiple servers, you don't need Admin access.  You need a plain vanilla domain user (not domain admin) account for the SQL Services to use and...

Another instance when a DBA may have local admin rights on a box is when the DBA is responsible for "soft" server administration support.  This has been the case in...

If you're not talking about a Database Restore, please be more specific in what you're trying to do.

Carsten,

We have a job (which I cannot post because I did not write it) which monitors our job execution times.  It tracks the average run time of each job in...

Someone else suggested Computer Associate's Erwin diagram tool.  I ditto this as it has a great feature I really enjoy using.  Once you model your database, you can reverse engineer...