Here's my take on your questions:

1)  A hot spare is a drive that sits in the array doing absoluletly nothing.  It is there simply to jump in as a drive...

You should always have some sort of unique identifer.  In your situation, I would just use and identity column, separate from the data entered.  If the table is joined in...

Given that there are only 2 pages in the table and 1 page in the index, I use these numbers to determine fragmentation.  You need more data to get an...

Thanks for the feedback everyone.  I have two articles coming soon on deport development, with more to follow.  As with this one, it won't simply follow the training or the...

Oh, well in that case, you should be able to make the report a standalone .exe.  You should still have access to the export capabilities.  If you have time, you...

If you're talking about deploying them over the web, that's a bit complicated with Crystal (from a licensing standpoint as well).  You should be able export the report to an HTML format...

Good to know.  One other thing -- you can change the locations of some of these things later using the rsconfig utility.  I have more info on that in a...

Ah, the joys of the RS install process.  The requirement check is one that really bothers me.

The report designer does require that VS 2003 is installed on the local machine. ...

I'm assuming Steve that you're replying to me and mentioning a synonym. If you weren't, I apologize for the post

Synonyms (in the Oracle...

If you're thinking of something like a synonym in Oracle, no.  Synonyms will be provided in Yukon, if you can wait that long

In...

Thanks for the feedback Chris!

I agree with the login stuff -- it's very confusing when presented on install -- what's logging on to what?  I'd like to so MS clean...

Wow, lot's of questions in there.

As far as deployment, there are tools for deploying command-line RDL files to other Reporting Services databases.  Unless you have a highly distributed environment, you'll...

OK, first thing -- what a report *is*:  Microsoft has defined an XML based report definition format (.RDL file).  This is (as far as I can tell ) a fully...

Great point!  I really shudder when someone quotes statistics completely out of context.

I come primarily from a mathematics and philosophy backround (before anyone snickers at that, philosophy is, at its...

"Good Karma".  I certainly need plenty of that

Very nicely done.  Replication tends to be either an underused or misused feature of SQL Server. ...