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  • RE: MS Office Live users - beware of scam

    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...

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  • RE: Launches and RTM

    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...

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  • RE: Server Administrator Permissions

    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...

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  • RE: Server Administrator Permissions

    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...

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  • RE: Server Administrator Permissions

    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...

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  • RE: (re) Create DB overwrite existing files

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

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  • RE: Job Execution Dates/Times Calculation (Past and Future Execution)

    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...

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  • RE: Data Modeling

    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...

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  • RE: Unable to launch startup trace with regread ....

    Ah. Okay.  Sorry about the misinterpretation. 

    At least you got it working.

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  • RE: DB files set to Archive?

    Ah-ha!  That actually makes sense.  And explains why it keeps resetting everytime I look at it.

    Thanks, Crispin.  I'm mailing out your cookie now. @=)

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  • RE: Unable to launch startup trace with regread ....

    What's different in the OS / Server configuration between your QA environment and your Production environment.  This is probably what's causing the issue.

    I'm guessing it has to do with...

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  • RE: Teamwork - Trust and Respect

    This is a very interesting topic.  Even more so because this subject crosses career lines and isn't an IT Only problem.  When I was in Customer Service, I had some...

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  • RE: Certification Rumors and Tips

    Oddly enough, my first real SQL DBA job was the toughest to get for me too.  No one wanted to hire me because I didn't have enough SQL Server experience,...

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  • RE: Certification Rumors and Tips

    Oh, and I did mean to post a reply to one of the first questions on this thread.  As others have said, unless you have the actual MCDBA certification, you...

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  • RE: Certification Rumors and Tips

    All,

    Sorry it took so long for me to respond.  Just got back from Rhode Island yesterday.  I'm glad you all enjoyed the article.

    Several people bring up some good points.  I'll definitely...

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