Yelena, thank you for the thoughts. 

We do not have applications running on the same machine as our SQL Server machines.  But our SQL server machines need to access to...

I assume one could just create a directory on a network share to store the source code for CLRs.  This would be a low-tech, easy to implement solution which would solve...

Right now I'm trying to determine "What are the value added reason for using source control?".  Basically right now with SQL Server 2000 if I want to know what an...

In general how does the 3rd party tools capture the direct queries and encrypt/decript between the application and the database engine?  Where is the hook?

So you have to buy a 3rd party tool.  SQL Server 2005 or 2000 for that matter doesn't support doing this kind of seamless encryption/decryption.  Right?

Basically I'm being asked if it is possible to encrypt/decript a column between the application and the database.  This way the application doesn't have to be changed.  They are looking for some...

It is my experience if a job is already running you can't start another job until the first one completes. 

If you are actually having the same job get started...

What in particular caused you a steep learning curve.  Was there one or two things that stand out as making it big?

I'm suprised that so far you are the only one...

If you machine is only used for SQL Server you might consider looking at the  @@CPU_BUSY variable.  This variable contains the number of milliseconds of CPU used by SQL Server...

Raid 5 was selected because of cost/GB  Using Raid1 or 1+0 cost more since you have to buy 2 drives to get 1 drive worth of capacity.  So basically if...

That is exactly what I plan to do.  Just wondering if anyone else had this problem.

Thanks for all the comments.  If programmers do need to stored unicode, for the reasons you guys mentioned, we don't restrict them.  Although programmers need to have a business reason...

Thanks for the feedback.  I'm guessing that since no one else responded that everyone agrees with the idea of not to use unicode data types unless there is a real business...

Kind of thought SA might be the logical answer, but just wanted to know.....Thanks for the input, more welcome if you have it.

Not really, but it is a start.  I wanted to have at least our Company Logo instead of that Folder icon.  Let me know if you find out anything.